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The girls and boys played games together in our neighborhood and had so much fun! I was the younger sister, and I just had to keep up with big brother.
We had a volunteer fire department in town (very small town) and one year they replaced all of their old fire hoses. We (all the kids hanging around) were able to get the old hoses and take them to the city park. We didn’t play in the well equipped city park, but we did play in the area of trees along the edge of the park and the railroad tracks. This was the perfect place to take all of the fire hose and place them up in the trees; hanging them from one to the other and making a very complex system of ways to get from tree to tree without getting down on the ground.
We could climb into the trees and move around playing tree tag; chasing each other on the limbs and then the fire hose to the next tree. Lots of fun, and no one ever got hurt. It didn’t cost the city any money and we had fun staying off of the streets. The city paid thousands of dollars in playground equipment but we never used it, we used old fire hoses.
In those days kids would enjoy playing with an old large cardboard box more then a hi-tech handheld gameboy.
As for catching lightening bugs, I would put them in the jar with the lid with holes in it and save it for the peddler who came by weekly in an old school bus selling staple food items or trading a chicken or canned goods for some. He would give me a candy bar for those lightening buys. Wonder what he did with them?
As for catching lightening bugs, I would put them in the jar with the lid with holes in it and save it for the peddler who came by weekly in an old school bus selling staple food items or trading a chicken or canned goods for some. He would give me a candy bar for those lightening buys. Wonder what he did with them?
It used to be that you could sell them. They used them for either some kind of medical test, or for a science experiment (I can't remember exactly what).
I think I got my own shotgun at age twelve. Paid for with my own money. I still have the thing too . . . a Stevens 20 gauge pump.
I wish you would come hunt some of these Canadian geese over at MetroCenter . . . there's a couple of hundred of them and they like to take s-l-o-w, s-l-o-w-w-w-w walks across the road. Never honk at the darn things; if you do they'll all stop and stare back at you (I guess to them a car horn sounds like their cousin Louie from Manitoba).
That's what happens when you feed them by hand.....
The all time favorite for my sister and I was making a house, castle whatever out of chairs, sheets, towels, tables any thing handy. Then of course we would play inside with our imaginary friends. This is still a favorite with the small children I take care of.
At school I remember red rover, 4 square, dogde ball, red light green light, mother may I, hopscotch, ring games (like "One Day as I was Walking"), jumping rope and lots of others. Many of these games are no longer played at elementary schools. Whenever I have subbed I was always trying to teach old games. The kids often feel they are too sophisticated to play these games or that the games take too much work. Some of these kids have no stamina.
Sometimes at home our little gang of girls would just roll down the hill, or walk along the wall then jump off.
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Playing living room rugby with my older brother. The try line was between my Mum's chair and the end of the sofa. The ball was a bunch of rolled socks. Basically you just had to bulldose your way through against your opponent and score a try. When you converted it you had to kneel on the floor and try and flick it with your foot. Wow, it was so much fun. Wasn't too keen on the rug burns on the knees and elbows!
Mother May I, Simon Says, Red Light, Green Light, Hopscotch, Four Square, Jump Rope, Hide 'n Go Seek, Duck, Duck, Goose, and using chairs, sheets, pillows and the like and making "rooms" from them under the sheets.
Playing all these games when you could still smell burning leaves after having been raked, placed in the street gutter and lit.
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