I was thinking that earlier that we stood in the swings and there was blacktop below us. We used to crawl under the merry go-round and then spin it. Sometimes we climbed on top of the middle of it and rode it. No one got hurt either.
The park we went to as kids had a big rocket you could climb up in the inside and there was a slide coming out of side of the rocket. Those metal slides got darn hot in the sun.
I remember those slides, yeah we were going to the moon alright, at least you saw stars if you did it wrong.
Even if you got hurt a little, you washed the blood off at the bubbler, and you were good to go. I truthfully don't remember band aids until much later in life, guaze & adhesive tape, iodine, dang that stuff burned, mercurichrome, turned your skin yellow, like a summer long tatoo. I remember polishing that slide with Turtle wax car polish, boy you would get some range at the bottom then!
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What a fun topic and a good way to show our ages! lol I don't have time to read every comment but did see many great memories here.
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I remember playing in the yard under the sprinkler or making our own slip 'n' slide out of a sheet of plastic and a sprinkler.
I remember building tents out of old blankets and crawling inside to read or play. In the summer we built them outside and in the winter we had the blankets stretched over the chairs in the house.
The old plastic sheet slip n slide...oh we played on this all summer at my friend's house. So much better than the buying one! lol
And the blanket over chairs? Loved doing that in the house. My brother and I use to make 'tents' all the time to play in them. We had to drag our blankets and pillows in there. What was fun if you positioned it so the 'door' faced the t.v. and you could crawl in and watch the tv from your make shift 'house'. lol
Does anyone remember the old t.v game show, Video Village? We use to love that show. We had a large cement patio and my older sister would draw the game with chalk and all the kids in the neighborhood would come over and play it outside with us.
Can't remember much about the game now but do remember having so much fun with our 'chalked' version.
Grade school age games consisted of Marbles, Jacks, playground games, jumprope and baseball in the field all the time in the summer! We also loved to ride bikes around the blvd we lived on and have a wagon tied behind pretending we were going away on vacation sometimes. lol
Also we loved to play badminton in the yard and a great family/neighborhood game after dinner was crochet.
Another game I liked was 7-up. It was played with bouncing a ball against the wall and doing certain things like after each number of bounces. Many variations.
Our sandbox was always used. We spent hours building roads and traveling all over. Much time was spent in our tree house too.
Years ago kids had to make do with what they had and I think it helped us to be way more creative and self entertaining. Now kids are bored if left without devices to entertain them and have no idea how to just 'go out and play'. Sad.
Remember when cartoons where only on Saturday mornings for a few hours????? Now they are on 24/7 with thier own channels.
Remember when your best friends mom had the power to disipline you just as much as your own mom did?
Remember being jealous because your friend got a video game ( Pong, Atari ) before you did? Or being the one able to gloat about it at school?
How about those who didnt do well in 1st, 3rd, 5th grade, actually being made to repeat that year in school.?
I try to keep some of that still going with my own kids, like the tents made out of blankets and sheets, they love them. We turned the entire living room into a tent once and camped out inside.
6:00 Sunday nights we watched LASSIE!
I waited all week to see that show. LOL
Didn't leave the T.V until Lassie put her paw up to say good-bye at the very end of the credits.
I remember being amazed when I found out that Wizard of Oz was actually half b/w half color!! For the longest time we only had a b/w tv, so it all looked the same to me!
Another game I liked was 7-up. It was played with bouncing a ball against the wall and doing certain things like after each number of bounces. Many variations.
I remember playing that. I couldn't remember the different bounces for each level anymore, but I did play that.
I remember playing a basketball game called "horse." Don't remember how it goes, but you had to get so many baskets to spell the word horse.
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Years ago kids had to make do with what they had and I think it helped us to be way more creative and self entertaining. Now kids are bored if left without devices to entertain them and have no idea how to just 'go out and play'. Sad.
I agree with you there. We had good imaginations back then. We had a big willow tree in our yard that we used to climb and that was our rocket. Other days we pretended that we were inside the body of a giant and the branches were all the intestines. lol weird kids we were. Then there was the weeping willow that we had and we played Tarzan by swinging on the branches. Ended up breaking branches off doing that.
Does anyone remember the old t.v game show, Video Village? We use to love that show. We had a large cement patio and my older sister would draw the game with chalk and all the kids in the neighborhood would come over and play it outside with us.
Can't remember much about the game now but do remember having so much fun with our 'chalked' version.
Remember when cartoons where only on Saturday mornings for a few hours????? Now they are on 24/7 with thier own channels.
I remember getting our sleeping bags out on Friday night so we could wake up in the living room to watch cartoons on Saturday. Then when the cartoons were done, we would watch Wide World of Sports. Usually some sort of skiing or figure skating seemed to be on. Then there was a show with old monster movies called Shock Theater on and what was the host's name? Toulouse No-Neck or something.
I remember being amazed when I found out that Wizard of Oz was actually half b/w half color!! For the longest time we only had a b/w tv, so it all looked the same to me!
Me too! LOL I remember when we got our first color console tv. We were so amazed by the bright colors on it that we just sat on the floor in front of it for hours!
6:00 Sunday nights we watched LASSIE!
I waited all week to see that show. LOL
Didn't leave the T.V until Lassie put her paw up to say good-bye at the very end of the credits.
We watched Lassie, too, but my brothers always teased me because I cried at the sad parts during the show.
Remember when cartoons where only on Saturday mornings for a few hours????? Now they are on 24/7 with thier own channels.
We always got up early on Saturday mornings to get the house work done. We weren't allowed to watch cartoons until the whole house was clean.
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Remember being jealous because your friend got a video game ( Pong, Atari ) before you did? Or being the one able to gloat about it at school?
Atari didn't come out until after I was married. But I do remember being jealous when my friends got new clothes because I had to wear my two older sister's hand-me-downs. The only time I got anything new was when my mom made me something out of feed-mill sack material. Then I felt like a queen...until other kids teased me about wearing home-made clothes to school.
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I try to keep some of that still going with my own kids, like the tents made out of blankets and sheets, they love them. We turned the entire living room into a tent once and camped out inside.
Making tents was so much fun. We had bunk beds in our room so it was easy to make the bottom one into a tent. We would stay in there all day playing with Barbies and sometimes with my brother's GI Joe doll that we borrowed when he wasn't looking.
So does that mean you never saw cartoons? I don't think I would have liked that.
Blue you slay me every once in a while, poor Lou Who probably got to watch some cartoons. I remember them being on until about noon.
I also remember that Shock Theatre guy, my sister was scared to death of him, naturally I used that to my advantage one in a while. Like; stay in that room or he's coming to get you!
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