| Memories growing up.
Posted: 3/27/2009 1:11:43 PM | What are some things you remember from when you were a kid?Was their a favorite game you use to play?May be it was the style of clothing,candy,toys,any thing at all.
I remember crazy carpets.Those were always fun going down the hill in the winter.I use to have wig wag chocalate bars.The don't make them any more.Any one remember those.Their was this ice cream bar I use to have called a ding bat.Those were good.Use to watch the roller derby on Saturdays.Can't forget Skinny Minny Millar.Use to play the board game touble.Not to be mixed up with trubble.LOL | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 2:19:22 PM | Hmmmmmm Let's see Lifesavers candies,
Beech nut BlackJack Gum,
Yipe Stripe Gum,
21 flavours of Stubby pop ,
Kickapoo Joy Juice pop,
Nugrape pop,
pushup ice creams at Dairy Queen,
Calgary Pop
,Chilly Dilly's at the Drive in theatre below where the Foothills Hospital is in Calgary on the river.
20 burgers for a dollar at McDonald's or Texan Burgers .
3 for a penny candy .
5 cent pop machines.
A large Everything But Pizza at Pizza Hut for 5.99
Roy Rogers Restaurants.
Spud Nuts donuts made from potato flour delivered to your door.
Movie theatre prices at 25 cents.
A&W 5 cent root beers or a gallon jug to go for .99 cents.
Malts at Eaton's for a nickle.
Hmmm gas at 24 cents a gallon.
Cigarettes at 25 cents a pack of 20
Pay phones at a dime.
Hula Hoops
Yoyo's
Pixie stix
A bottle of wine for 2.00 to 3.00
A 26 er of alcohol for less than 5.00
Dog &Suds Drive in Restaurants
Mr Jake Steak Houses with a full course steak dinner for 5.99
as well as Mr Mike's
Captain Kangaroo
The Friendly Giant
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Posted: 3/27/2009 2:19:49 PM | Man, there wasn't ANYTHING you couldn't build outta tinkertoys way back when, as long as ya had a jacknife and a bottle of white glue for necessary adjustments I dunno if they even make em anymore. Lego and mechano were alright too I suppose | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 2:26:26 PM | Oh and then there were dinky toys
Far better than Hot wheels .
And a five cent coffee
And a 2 cent stamp to mail a letter. | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 2:41:01 PM | Mine would have to be these:
- Metal tonka trucks
- Pop bottles that were made out of glass
- One & 2 dollar paper bills
- The knee deep mud puddle(90 percent mud) near our house that all the kids played in
- My mom's 2 door datsun
- Texaco gas stations
-****e Dee Ice Cream bikes
- You could buy a pop or a chocolate bar for under a dollar
- Toys that were made to last
- This toy that had a long yellow 4 foot handle with a blue end. Hanging off of it was like a giant rubber band to where you could make the biggest bubbles ever. *can't remember what it's called*
- Doing maintenance on pedal bike and filling up the tires with too much air. Went over a speed bump and blew out both of them at the same time. | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 2:41:22 PM | The playground in our neighborhood was huge and had this tiny little merry-go-round that went way, way faster than most of them that were normally much bigger. I was known for being able to spin that thing really fast! All the other usual playground equipment, monkey bars, really big swings, etc.
We used to ride our bikes around right on the playground too. We could do that because all of this stuff was on concrete 
So much for child safety! Today's kids are so coddled 
I had 3 concussions between the ages of 6 and 10. | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 2:52:40 PM | Cap guns made out of metal, not plastic.
Metal tonka toys.
Farm life. Clean air. THE HAYLOFT TARZAN ROPE!!!!
Tree forts and home-made bows and arrows.
Biggest stress in life would be if I could get my homework done in time to meet the guys in town at the playground to burn some energy.
Getting in trouble for figuring out model rocket engines could be mounted into the previously mentioned metal tonka cars and fired off the dock to skip across the lake!
loading up the backpack and taking a walk out the back 40 to either go to a big rock hill to climb or beyond it to the lake with all the perch in it!
The great christmas tree hunt with the family! Wine, hot chocolate, toboggans and drunk adults with axes! LOL | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 3:31:15 PM | Spud guns and Mr Potato Head and slinkys
And Tony the Pony by Marx
Ahhh and then there was the first date hmmmmmmm
But that could be another thread all it 's own lol | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 3:44:38 PM | Memories of when i was a kid.
Legos
Tonka trucks
All of my best friends living in the same neighbourhood in a radius of < 1 km (not even!)
Building forts and organizing major snowball wars with machine guns and everythang!
Playing street hockey
Playing hockey in the ice rink next to our house!
Playing dodge ball
Playing baseball!
Playing!
Hide and seek, tag, touch football!
GIJOE's
Star Wars
Playing cowboys and indians (with guns and everythang)
My friends and I spying on the girls next door...
Transformers
Spying on my best friend's sister (our neighbours next door) while she was in a bikini having a tan...
Fishing on the river right next to my father's marina.
Listenening to my father's elvis record collection
Making the teacher's life a living hell! 
simply being a little brat... | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 3:52:28 PM | Gopher hunting.
When I was a kid, we lived across the street from a large field. I spent many an hour lying patiently in the grass with a string snare stretched across the mouth of a gopher hole, waiting for a gopher to poke his head out.
One day I actually caught one and brought it home in a box and had it in the backyard. When all the neighborhood kids found out they all had to come over and see it. Of course it got out of the box, and when my Dad found out he freaked! My Mom had very extensive flower beds and a vegetable garden and he was convinced that the thing would chew up all her plants. So he chased it around the yard with a pitch fork. He eventually got it  but he did far more damage to the gardens then that poor little gopher could have ever done. I never went gopher hunting again. | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 3:59:08 PM | Oh yeah, playing with sulpher (easy to get way back when), salt peter (potassium nitrate I thought), and ground up BBQ briquettes (carbon). I thought I was onto something (makin' gunpowder) and would make the news firin' tinfoil rockets past airplanes. 
Hey, kids gotta have hobbies 
^^ The gophers were easy to snare like that by just "drowning them out". Almost TOO easy if they were within garden hose hooked up to the house/barn tap range | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 5:57:13 PM | Best memories..
My dad making cakes for every ocasion like Halloween, christmas, easter!!
My dad dressing up like an Indian and pulling me around at the Community Fair in a Chuckwagon giving out popcorn balls.
The boxing ring we had in our basement. Ropes tied around the support beams, tons of old mattresses and we were set to go.
The "bucking bronc" in the back yard. A huge tire tube tied to three trees, cover the lawn under it with mattresses and then three people would grab the tie down ropes and one person would "ride" the bucking bronc.
Climbing out my bedroom window and down the tree to raid gardens.
Birthday parties where the entire class came and we had treasure hunts for gift bags.
Money cakes!!!
Rolling around the lawn in a huge tire tube.. being able to play outside til the streetlights came on in the summer..
Huge neighborhood games of kick the can..
My dinghy in a million lakes..
Playing tag is Sidorsky's furniture store behind the back to back couches.
Playing barbies in the tent in the backyard for days on end..
Clackers!!!
My backyard :-)
the carnivals we would put on in our backyard!
Family Christmases with dozens of people and the all night game extravaganzas in our dining room on 13th.
Having the best friends anyone could have!
Learning to drive the boat and getting it to "plane".. LOL
Oh man, I had such a great childhood.. I just hope my kids might grow up and say the same thing!! | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 10:17:13 PM | ^^ I have most of those same memories. But....clackers? What are those?
- Climbing up onto the roof to watch fireworks every night during Stampede week
- Trick-or-treating and having kids sleep over, as it's my birthday on Nov 1 and it was always a school holiday (All Saints Day)
Really wish I could remember more but as said earlier, I had 3 concussions
One of my memories should be of the small plane ride we went on with my dad's clients when I was about 7 or 8 but it was days after I had one of those concussions. I can look at the photos but nope, don't remember it at all and I didn't even soon after.
On the bright side, I just took a classic IQ test today and I got 131 which is apparently pretty good. So no lasting damage done. LOL | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 10:38:27 PM | | I don't understand how come there isn't very many merry-go-rounds anymore. It seems like they are trying to protect kids now a days from getting hurt, we turned out fine lol. | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 10:44:01 PM | i remember wig wags
i remember the blocks of wood my dad used to give us to draw pictures of cars on so we could play in the ditches out frontof our farm
i remember playing cops n robbers with my dog,wearing rubber boots, kicking the glass windows till they broke and gettin a shaft of glass thru my foot and spraying blood all over my mum lol
i remember when i was 6 and i fell down a 20 ft well and broke the pump at the bottomwith my head
i remember fallin down into the root cellar and landing head first on the concrete pad 8 ft down
i fell alot as akid
i remember climbing to the top of our old 60 ft high barn , when i was 7 and standing on the very peek and scaring the crap out of my mum
i remember riding on the hay wagon eating oranges from my gramma
i remember picking stones in the fields everyday ,
on the farm we didnt reallyplay many of them city folk games
there was always some form of work to do | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 10:55:11 PM | ^^^^^^LTBF.......even an old fossil like me can only remember back to 10 cent pop machines, 25 cent coffee and 5 cent stamps....aging before your time?
And ah, yes, Blackjack gum not really that tasty, but we bought many packs trying to find a black stick in order to win a free pkg! Only gum worse was Thrills (tasted like soap) | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 11:22:53 PM | well... i was an army brat. i have different memories:
- playing cowboys and indians with discarded surplus bazooka tubes
- camo sleeping bags... well, everything we owned was green.
- "C" rations for school lunch... the chiclets were ok.
- dressing up in dads combat fatigues for halloween, then realizing all the other kids on the street are wearing the same costume
- wore spent bullet shell belts WAAAAAY before it was cool
- every kid had a combat knife/bayonette instead of a swiss army knife
- called dad by his rank, not his name
- hated all russians
- hide and seek is way cooler wearing camo netting and green grease face paint... games could last for days.
:)
bradley
CFB Bagotville 1964-65
CFB Chatham 1965-71
CFB Baden-Solingen 1971-75
CFB Borden 1975-79
CFB Edmonton 1979-83 | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 11:35:01 PM | *Sigh*.......Childhood memories
clackers......(Daisy, they are huge marbles on strings that you clack together)
Chatty Cathy
Spirograph
barrel of monkeys
silly putty
gobbly gook
sting rays........( banana bikes)
etch-a-sketch
just to name a few of the toys that were around back then.......I grew up in a small northern BC town so everything we could get ........came from the Sears catalogue so everyone had the same toys and wore the same clothes........unless you were lucky enough to get to drive 6 hrs to the nearest big city and buy different stuff
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Posted: 3/27/2009 11:45:33 PM | playing cops and robbers with your dog???
Falling down a 20 ft well and landing on the pump with your head?
falling down the root cellar and landing on your head?
I think we all know why trubble is so messed up now
I wonder if his dog is doing 20 to life for armed robbery now?
V
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Posted: 3/27/2009 11:49:20 PM | Seriously stole the words right out of my mouth.. about Trubble that is..
Your childhood explains even more about you .. LOL
oh and I meant to say,
more memories....
Remember chinese hopscotch and putting those elastic bands together to play it?
Tether ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still miss that game.. seriously.. If I could have one thing from childhood, it just be tether ball. I was the champion.. at least in my own mind.
Johnny and Jane West and the their western bodies.. LOL I played with mine til they all got lost, fell apart or were taken apart. Later in life, I saw a set of them for 500.00 in an antique shop in Vancouver.. well, vintage toy store.. same thing.
Mud pies.. play houses and my two horses.. LOL. wooden horses that you could ride like a swing in the back yard on the biggest tree..
Sneaking into ACAD to play tag in the dark.
Being brave enuf to ride your bike down the tar path down the brow of Crescent Hill. .. I still have the scars.. LOL
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Posted: 3/28/2009 12:40:58 AM | Building snow forts that took up 3/4 of the back yard (wasn't the biggest yard, but the fort was plenty big enough to fit dear old dad)
Water gun fights that included pretty much every kid in the neighborhood... which sometimes got a few parents involved as well (they cheated and used the hose more often than not)
Kissing girls (I was a charmer when I was <10 years old apparently  )
Learning to ride a 2 wheeler on a girls bike (one of the ones I kissed... like I said, charmer)
Riding crazy carpets down the stairs (it seemed like a good idea at the time, the wall at the end of the stairs disagreed)
Making a very large patch of ice on the local hill to go faster, then making a fairly large bump at the end only to realize there were trees/light posts/sidewalks shortly after the bump... then going down anyways
Going way to fast on merry go rounds then staying on so long that walking straight (and possibly keeping food down) was impossible
As a side note I'm realizing now that as a kid I did plenty of stuff that could have seriously damaged myself/other kids... I look around today and a lot of that stuff has been removed... what the heck? Kids will hurt themselves and they will learn whats bad a heck of a lot faster, prevent them from killing themselves not from a little flesh wound here and there. Different topic I suppose. | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 1:22:16 AM |
Oh yeah, playing with sulpher (easy to get way back when), salt peter (potassium nitrate I thought), and ground up BBQ briquettes (carbon). I thought I was onto something (makin' gunpowder) and would make the news firin' tinfoil rockets past airplanes.
Grey, don`t forget gasoline, plastic models and toy soldiers. Also wrist rockets and BB guns.
What, the rest of you didn`t have a German best friend? Somehow I turned out OK and he became a cop. | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 3:34:47 AM | [^^^^^^LTBF.......even an old fossil like me can only remember back to 10 cent pop machines, 25 cent coffee and 5 cent stamps....aging before your time?
And ah, yes, Blackjack gum not really that tasty, but we bought many packs trying to find a black stick in order to win a free pkg! Only gum worse was Thrills (tasted like soap]
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Sweet pea sorry to hear about your memory going
Yes there were five cent and for a while 7 cent machines .A few places were still 5 cents for coffee when I was a kid and a few places were graduating at 7 or 10 cents. The two cent stamps were there then too then onto 3 and 4 driving everyone crazy with the one cent stamps to top them up.Blackjack was definitely an acquired taste for some people but yuck you had to bring back that memory of that soapy Thrills gum .Tasted like perfume and soap combined ;I can taste it now ..........ptuuuuie .........
My father had a pop company but years before that he was in charge of Lifesavers in Western Canada and years before that he was with the company that sold Adams gums in all flavors ,BlackJack and Yipe Stripe and Chicklets and that crappy Thrills gum .....Oh did I say ptuuuuie yet
So I had to grow up with all that stuff and had to help in the businesses along the way .Sure brings back memories of those products and others. It was amazing how many neighbor kids hung around our place now that I think about it
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And as Daisy said climbing on the roof or looking out an upstairs window at Grandmas to watch the fireworks. It was amazing that we could see them from so far away as they seemed to shoot higher back then .
We lived up near Tuxedo Park as a kid and we could see them high in the air way down town if we were on the roof .But the best was to go to the hills around the downtown area if we were lucky like Scotsman's hill I think it was called and a few others.
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Posted: 3/28/2009 5:56:38 AM | And ah, yes, Blackjack gum not really that tasty, but we bought many packs trying to find a black stick in order to win a free pkg! Only gum worse was Thrills (tasted like soap]
What?? Blackjack gum not tasty? It sure as heck was, it was one of my favorites! I loved anything licorice flavored and still do. And Thrills was another favorite and you can still get it. Wow, tastes can sure differ. lol | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 7:20:39 AM | Paskapoo
Happy Valley
Whizzers (mechanical tops)
Clackers
Nose Hill before John Laurie Blvd. was built - we had rabbits, deer, and even a bobcat once
those ugly, gross stickers the boys had
dried bean shooters
money cakes
putting a long sheet of plastic down the hill in the back yard with the hose and sliding down
playing "Round and round the frying pan" with neighborhood kids
using foxtails as pretend paint brushes
looking for fuzzy caterpillars in the carragana hedges
digging tunnels in the snow drifts
running home at lunch to watch BuckShot and the Pink Panther
seeing a colour tv for the first time!
wishing the moon landing wasn't pre-empting my cartoons
sneaking to the neighbors to watch Star Trek 'cause I wasn't allowed.
playing White Rabbit on the neighbors' houses | |
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