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My dear brother and I pooled our nickles and bought a Cox Dune buggy, we never bothered with the airplanes.

The dune buggy would get stuck in grass so we made studded tires with the rubber straps from dad's sling shot and a bunch of thumb tacks.

We were impressed, Dad, not so much.

What my twin brother (Mathsr) said holds true for me too. We did have some fun stuff that having a brother just made it more fun.

We would occasionally get a dirt pile. This was a load of dirt dumped in the backyard that was taller than we were. You can't imagine the things that come to the mind of a 6 year old when he is faced with a mountain of just good old dirt. Enough for all the guys in the neighborhood to all play on at one time. We buried one friend up to his shoulders once. Wasn't easy to get him out.

We also had a donkey. He looked like one of these cute little burrows with the gray body and black shoulder stripe but almost as large as a small mule. Tough as a tank and would cary three kids at a time. We put a lot of miles on that donkey and he loved children. He had no use at all for an adult, which was fine with us. We lived in town at the time and he found us at school a few times. We would just tie him to the bike rack until one of us could ride him home.

Never had a Tonka Toy, GI Joe was a doll, single speed bikes were the norm, baseballs were the standard gift at birthday parties, and from first grade on a pocket knife in your pocket all the time.

We thought life was good.

With just a tiny bit of creativity, it's possible to fabricate a very satisfying Tommy gun from an old broom handle.

OMG those were fun! Until they landed in an irretrievable place...


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calichie rocks.

LOLOL
Why am I not surprised?

Kudos!

Not matches out of BB guns, but primers out of slingshots....yes, primers; before I even knew what they really were made for.

One little wonder when I was 8 or 9 was a crystal radio that looked like a tiny tabletop radio. Pure magic. Crystal radios still seem like magic.

Tops and marbles
followed by a "Fanner Fifty"
At 7 years old, I drove an 8N Ford, and got a Winchester 67A boys carbine for my birthday
(Parents never would let me have a BB gun)
Pushing dozers @ 12
loaders around the same time
Girls at around 15

DAMN - "The Warden" is right - boys NEVER grow up !!!!!

This. I sold my Hot Wheels in 1995 for $450 to a collector.

Cork pop guns were freaking cool. I remember stacking the snap caps on top of each other to get more velocity out of the cork round balls!

He- Man, Transformers, and micro machines were the toys of my childhood. Last Christmas I gave my 4yr old son a big box of my old He-Man figures, and he loved them. He plays with them just about every day. I bought a dvd of the old cartoons and I think I enjoy them as much as he does.

Silly boy, when wa the last time the Warden was wrong?


BTW.............we should all be very thankful for the toys we had s kids, just remember poor old Ingwe he nothing but rocks to play with.......

Hilarious! Poor Ingwe....

Caliche! wow, you were one of the rich kids, we had to wait for the other kids to throw rocks at us first.

My real favorite was getting new skis and boots every few years.



mike r

Who else remembers the old pump guns that shot ping-pong balls?
my cousin had a couple - epic wars !