| Memories growing up.
Posted: 3/28/2009 7:24:15 AM | Trouble: Explains alot as to why you wear a helmut now.
Daisy: I think you should have worn a helmut, then you would have a memory now.
LTBF: How friggin old are you? That stuff sounds like from my grandpa's days.
I remember the following:
1. Playing guns for hours. All over the whole neighbourhood. It was about fifty blocks of houses.
2. Riding our bikes everwhere. I remeber one day we rode our bikes to all four major parks in one day. The last one being several KM's outside city limits.
3. I remeber coke bottle candies, fun dip, sour pop bottle openers, slush puppy slushes.
4. Every neighbourhood having a mom and pop corner store. And them remembering every kids name.
5. Neighbours that actually conversed and looked out for one another.
6. Having fifty friends within a four block radius of your house.
7. Going to the pool with your class.
8. Hot dog day. At my school it was the best day of the month. For five bucks you could get like three hot dogs, chips, and a pop.
9. Playing street hockey for hours.
10. Actually having playgrounds that you could use for hours on end. Don't seem to be to many anymore.
11. Saturday morning cartoons.
12. Air band contests. We used to always win.
13. Dodgeball. We really need to start a POF dodgeball team. That game rocked.
14. At my school we had a game outside called four square. Those of you that remember, can fill in the details. I think you became champ and then people tried to beat you out by moving up the squares. 1 to 2 to 3 then champ. Champ made the rules for the games. Anyone remeber that?
15. Every Sunday there was a set TV time after bath which consisted of Muppets, Fragile Rock and the Disney Movie of the week. It always seemed to be Escape from Witch Moutain every other week.
16. The resturant Bonanza. It was awsome. You could eat all you wanted for like five bucks. You got a meal, plus unlimited salad and dessert bar. Why that place ever closed down I will never know.
17. Chucky Cheese. And for those of you that remember, there used to be a place called Bullwinkles. It was way better then Chucky Chees.
18. Actually being allowed to eat popcorn balls from strangers on halloween. Before the nutcases changed things forever.
19. Building kick ass snow forts and having snowball wars against the other kids.
20. Being in a kid gang and thinking we were cool. We had our own fort in the back of a buddy's house. There were rival gangs from other neibourhoods, and I remember getting into scraps with them, using garbage can lids as sheilds and tossing rocks at each other. (How I never got a Daisy concussion from taking a rock off my melon, I will never know)
21. Playing Red Rover in the school yard. I used to love that game.
22. Sleepovers with buddies. Staying up all night and getting into mischeif.
23. Causing grief for my brother. As the youngest in the whole family, cousins included, I could do no wrong, and used it to my advantage.
24. getting five dollars allowance every two weeks and thinking I was rich. Actually had to work for the five bucks doing slave labour, I mean chores. Now my kids think I am crazy if I just ask them to pick up after themselves.
25. I remember when walkie talkies were cool. No one had cell phones. Now a days I see kids as young as 10 having their own phones. I didn't get a cell phone till last year.
26. CB Radios. My friend had one in his pick up truck and we would spend hours on there talking to all sorts of people.
27. Crazy Carpets and Flying Discs. I remember thinking that no brakes was a good idea while going Mach three down a hill.
28. Actually being able to swim in the river. I remember countless times riding my bike down to the river with my friends and swimming in it for hours.
29. Happy Days, Gimme a Break, Different Strokes, Facts of Life, ETC.
30. Being able to make friends easlily and with anyone. No hang ups or classes. Hey you, you want to play. Sure. Done deal.
That is what I remember. I will think of some more.
SM
Great topic Sweet | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 12:50:45 PM | Wow, so many...........and I've just remembered more in the last ten minutes than I realized I'd forgotten 
For me, it was hockey, hockey and more hockey. All year round. Back yard rinks and arenas....even 1 month of Hockey Camp every summer.
Around hockey was a pretty decient life. Summer cottage with the fast little boats (sea-flea's) 
I was a kid who had NO FEAR, resulting in several concussions. Many, many memories! My grandmother's "Pumpkin Pie" was the best I've ever had.
Excellent list of memories I've read here, but one that comes to mind no one has mentioned.
I grew up in Toronto with no locks on our doors. Go figure, an afluent neighborhood, never a locked door and never a break.....I mean "walkin".....
Unfathomable now-a-days!
Thanks for the Memories. Great post. | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 1:28:02 PM | slumber parties
all-day adventures
picnics
building forts in the forrest
berry picking
jumping in puddles (ok, so I still do this occasionally)
riding my bike back from the "corner" store, a couple of KMs away, with my glass bottle of pop, and my licorice straw
tabogganing in the sand pit, in the winters, and jumping from the top of the sand pit in the summers
Barbie-adventures, and making "Barbie-world"
Horse-drawn sleigh rides (although we were usually running behind the sleigh, as little ones were tossed off most often!)
snow-machining
living in a bathing suit all summer long.
tenting in the back yard
picking apples in the abandoned orchard
"let's pretend" days.
OH, memories!
And Looking to be found... check out the old fashioned candy store at cross-roads Market, and you'll find a lot of your favourites there! | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 2:50:46 PM | Clackers (I still have mine)
Hopscotch
Double Dutch
Red Rover
Monopoly
Playing hide and seek outside after dark and no one was worried
Homemade mac and cheese (never heard of Kraft Dinner)
Eating rabbits my brother used to snare all the time
Homemade bread and baked goods
Spontaneous baseball games with the neighbourhood kids
Knowing everyone in the neighbourhood
Black and white TV
Listening to 45's on the record player
Tarzan Swing over the Creek
Catching frogs and snakes | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 2:59:18 PM | Hmm memories when it was not a few km's away instead it was miles.
Memories when there was not a metric system when a pound was a pound and a gallon was a gallon. not grams and litres.
Hmm I must be dating myself when I hear some one say 3 hot dogs and a pop and chips for around 5 .00 bucks. As I remember them briefly at 5 cents a piece then 7 then 10 but that was soon replaced by Mcdonalds and Texan Burger Restaurants looking after the delivery of burgers at 5 cents each so that the PTA Volunteers did not have to do the hot dogs.
But that was early elementary school. | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 3:04:26 PM | | lol stationary.i notice you didnt mention the dinosaur races and the roll a rock competitions lol | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 3:08:06 PM | After mentioning the Dino Races you reminded me of the Submarine Races we use to take the girls to on the weekends
Hmmm okay enough on that story .It only worked if there were lakes or rivers or oceans nearby . | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 9:26:29 PM | | ^^^^LTBF..." and a 2 cent stamp to mail a letter".....am now convinced that you are not being truthful about your age!!! Am looking at a letter mailed in Vancouver on Aug 20/1947.....for THREE cents! I, for one, wasn't even around then! Where did you say you saw those dinosaurs???? | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 9:32:12 PM | "coon hunting"....are we even allowed to say that anymore...we always assumed that it had something to do with raccoons raiding gardens, but now I'm sure someone could make it "politically incorrect"
being part of the cool crowd and smoking "punk wood" around the bonfire | |
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Posted: 3/29/2009 12:19:03 AM | -Well, in Ontario, we did hunt coons, and it was the 4 legged kind, the dogs would howl and we would follow with the kerosene lanterns or the "new" 6 volt battery flashlights.
- stamps were 3 cents when I recall, and Christmas cards were 2 cents and weren't sealed
-cigarettes were 15 cents a pkg of 20, as the 25's didn't get into the market until the late 50's
- Sky King, Amos and Andy and the Shadow on the radio
- first colour tv set - and later, the first broadcast was in Sept '56, it was NBC and Bonaza!
- Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates
-Gunsmoke
-The Lone Ranger
-Black and white tv, rabbit ears, shaking the outside antenna to get the ice off it for better reception
-gas at 22 cents a gallon, gas at 6 cents a liter (many years later!)
-milking the cows for morning breakfast
-working the fields with draft horses
-running like h*ll after throwing rotten tomatoes on Halloween
-tying trikes in trees on Halloween
-singing a song or telling a joke to get treats on Halloween
-getting the girls to come into the tunnels under the beams in the hay loft
-getting girls!!
-Donuts were 5 cents, and twice the size they are now
-sneaking into the girls locker room to hang a bag of cold water over the inner door to the showers
-detentions for being late for class in High School, even tho it was the teachers fault from the previous class
-band practice
-football practice and games on the road
- giving your lettered sweater to a girl friend
-having girls ask who you liked better!
-collecting maple sap, and making syrup or sugar candy
- no computers, comic books, snakes & ladders, using playing cards on the spokes of the bike wheels
I could go on, but there is so much to remember, those were the days, but .......
these are now the days, and each and everyday, there are new memories being created that will in time be things to remember from growing up! | |
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Posted: 3/29/2009 2:08:12 AM | How the hell did I forget the Lone Ranger Duffy. I used to love that show.
SM | |
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Posted: 3/29/2009 2:14:11 AM | ^^ Duffy, your last paragraph is a fantastic response!
I also loved sliding down the snowy hills at recess (I'm sure my Mom didn't care for the constantly torn snow-pants though!)
This worked much better when we stuffed grocery bags full of snow, and zipped down the hills.
I hated when our water lines froze in the winter, but loved the trips to the laundry-mat in town.
OH, collecting milk-weed and Monarch caterpillers and watching them hatch into Monarch Butterflies each summer!
Making blanket forts to hide in the house during thunderstorms.
Saturday morning cartoons, the Smurfs!
Making cakes in my easy-bake oven.
Raggedy Ann and Andy.
SO many good memories! | |
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Posted: 3/29/2009 6:46:43 AM | Many TV programs I remember as a kid. I remember the Polka Dot Door (Polkaroo!!!!) And Hariets Magic Hats. And what about the A Team. Can't forget about Murdock and BA Barakus. I also remember Fat Albert and the Fall Guy. And lets not forget Silver Spoons, Racoons, Mork & Mindy, and the Dukes of Hazard. It was way better with Bo and Luke as opposed to the the other two. Oh and Knight Rider. Kit car was awsome. Went and sat in KIT at Universal Studios and thought that was the cat's ass. And many more I could name. TV just isn't the same as it used to be back then. 
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Posted: 3/29/2009 10:19:29 AM | Clackers - the one true toy that could give you a black eye if not careful.
Rocky n Bullwinkle
Shazam
Playing in concrete based playgrounds (monkey bars)
Riding your bike with no safety gear
Walking the 30 minutes to school ( no busses provided)
Home made Halloween Costumes
45rpm records
MoJo's
Laura Secord having reasonalbe prices
Laying in the back window ledge of the car, while driving to the cottage...
And most of what everyone else has said...
Love those Memories! | |
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Posted: 3/29/2009 11:05:54 AM | Duff, you actually liked milking the cows? Good lord, I loathed it. Then running back to the house so we could bathe the smell off of us just so we'd get teased less for running a farm! Maybe growing up in an area where your neighbors were all farmers was different. We were bussed about fourty minutes to get to school into a town where it was really frowned on. Only in high school when the farm boys were a bit more solidly built and used to rough work and standing up for ourselves did it actually pay off both with the softer "cool kids" and with the girls.
I do remember having town folk come out to the farm and taking walks with Dad's friends kids (usually the jerks in school). Walking along the fenceline in rubber boots, them mocking the boots until we'd grab their hand and then reach out to grab the electric fence! That shocked look made it worthwhile!
I remember having the dogs trained to pull sled, moonlight cross country skiing the hayfields, haying season, community meals during it and the parties when they were done. Home-made wine, having races by tossing ****-willows into the water and racing across the bridge to see which one would make it to the other side first, the sound of frogs chirping in the evening, fireflies in jars, running off to the pond after a hard day to take a dip, fresh picked berries (blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, etc) that grew wild on the farm.
I remember making trails through the thistle patch and then the games of tag we used to have in them. Fresh clams from the creek flash cooked on a plank covered with pine needles!
Being too young to hunt with a rifle so going after partridge with a broom handle that had a snare on it, bringing home 4 five gallon pail full of live birds and opening them in the kitchen! Feathers all over the place! LOL. Man, did we get it that day!
I remember getting my first bicycle when I was about eight, learning to ride, learning you cannot take jumps with no-hands! It was one of the old Moto-cross fifty pound bikes with the plastic gas can, rear shocks and huge knobby tires! But if you had the power in your legs to move it, they could ride through a ploughed field without breaking anything on it!
Dad piling snow where one of the hayloft doors was and when we hit about eight feet, we'd swing off the tarzan rope out the doors and into the snow! And concurrently, my first groin injury! LOL | |
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Posted: 3/29/2009 12:02:55 PM | I remember some more things.
My dad getting a 5 gallon pail of milk for the week.
My 3 speed bike.
Pretending to be poncho from Chips.
Gopher hunting.
Catching garter snakes.
Finding salamanders under rocks and cement blocks.
Going to AW and eating for under a dollar.
My snoopy lunch box.
Playing with tonka and dinky toys in the sand box.
Playing marbles at school.
G.I. Joe with kung fu grip.
3 bags of chips in a box of old dutch chips.
Buying as much candy for $2 as you could.
Playing chicken on the monkey bars.
The gravel play ground in elemenatary school.What were they thinking?!
Playing lawn darts.
The tree that fell on my trailer that never woke me up. | |
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Posted: 3/29/2009 12:46:56 PM | | The homemade halloween costumes that chicklet brought up reminded me that we not only had homemade costumes, we got apples and oranges and it was ok to eat them. I remember when the fruit and homemade goodies went away because of the needles and razor blades scare. The other thing was that we could go out trick or treating alone and it was ok to go inside people's houses too. Sometimes we had to actually go in and sing or something to get our treat. Halloween was fun and neighourly back then. | |
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Posted: 3/29/2009 4:15:33 PM | It sure was safe to be a kid back when.
I remember leaving our house at 8 in the morning, getting on a bus and traveling halfway through the city to get to the Science Centre to spend the day with friends. ( In TORONTO when I was 9!! )
Such a shame kids these days don't know what that kind of freedom really is.
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Posted: 3/29/2009 11:23:09 PM | Going to "explorers"..
Going to CGIT..LOL
Gunnel bobbing,
skinny dipping,
the strip in DT calgary and cruising it on the weekends... and hanging out with the guys inthe parking lot with cool cars.. Who would have believed DT Calgary had a cruise.. well, it did.. and we cruised it for freaking hours!!!LMAO
I remember homemade popcorn balls, angels on horseback *now they call the smores*, Pop Shop pop, being able to come home for lunch from school everyday even in high school.
Riding the dumb waiters in the circulation department on the main branch of the library.
Mostly though I remember playing, playing anywhere, anytime with just about anyone. ..
Didn't matter what you played... just that you did..
I miss playing.. alot some days. | |
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Posted: 4/13/2009 4:20:05 PM | Hmm for me I had an different background as I grew up in Montreal and then the British Virgin Islands...as a Jehovah's witness...so I couldnt go to main stream movies etc....
I spent a good deal of time at the park near me
skating almost all year long,
swimming in the local out door pool,
I loved skipping and hula hoops
my mom would pretend to get all pissy and send us to Loyola park on warm saturdays...then show up an hour later with a full picnic and the dog...so we could spend the afternoon as a family playing in the park
I loved to read so i would get a bagel and go tot he library and sneak reading all the books we were not supposed to.
When we moved to the farm in the islands I spent a lot of time fishing with my grandpa or uncles. I learned to cast a net and loved just being out in the ocean earning a living for my family.
I remember climbing a fruit tree and finding a bat and falling out of the tree screaming lol
I wore a uniform to school till grade 8...regardless of the school I went to or where we lived.
I remember getting my mouth washed out with soap for swearing | |
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Posted: 4/13/2009 10:04:26 PM | Hockey year round ice and street
lacrosse
firecrackers
walking from downtown edm to south side because we missed the last bus after k-days
giving my brothers dryer rides ( yes they got inside the clothes dryer heheh)
playing baseball
going to the lake
fishing with my dad and his dad in the mountains
getting hit in the throat with a slapshot (bad memory)
parties at the twiliger gravel pit
trying to get a freaking girl friend ( some things don't change )
shooting rats in sask | |
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Posted: 4/14/2009 11:01:54 PM | Thrills gum, I must have been the only one to like the flavor of soap...
Clackers, I still have mine. I'm not as good at it as I was as a child and I have the arm bruises to prove it.
The playground across the street where we knew the girl whose dad built it.
Walking alone at night and not being afraid of being attacked. My sister saw all the perverts anyways.
Pixie Stix
chocolate bars, ice cream bars, bags of chips and a pop all 10 cents
roller skates that you had to use a key to tighten them to your shoes
skiing on Seymour Mountain
knowing if it snowed there would be no school (Grew up in the Vancouver area)
raiding the neighbours' fruit trees
getting cable for the first time...ours was in the late 60's
blackberries mmmm and they were all free
finding out the poppies growing in your backyard were the opium ones
I'll stop, too many good things to remember
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Posted: 4/15/2009 12:31:37 AM | | My friend and I were going through some pyro phase and we lit some combustibles on fire...things got a bit out of hand...the forest was about to go up in flames and my friend took off running towards his nearby house. I stayed and managed to snuff the flames out with my foot. I guess I started being a hero early on. | |
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