Im getting some clay hauled in for a building and ran across a few "chalk" rocks and it got me thinking of years ago....how fun it used to be to find a rock you could write with. How we were so easily entertained years ago by something so simple. Seems like it was back in the "stone" age...(I couldn't resist that one lol)
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Wife and I were talking about that the other day. Kids actually played back in the old days with whatever was at hand. Cardboard box, barrel ring,tow sack or what ever you could find. Now days kids have to be entertained all time. Guess it is just changing of the times.
Bicycle rim and a stick anyone?
My answers to "I'm bored" have for years been "Let me find you
something to do" or "are you not smart enough to entertain yourself?"
The grandkids get over being bored real quick that way.
Who knows. Maybe that's child abuse these days. LOL
My answers to "I'm bored" have for years been "Let me find you
something to do" or "are you not smart enough to entertain yourself?"
The grandkids get over being bored real quick that way.
Who knows. Maybe that's child abuse these days. LOL
Tom in TN
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The kids today would probably be arrested by the "Politically Correct" police if they played the games today that my friends and I played back in the 1950's.
There is no telling how many "enemy combatants" we killed while playing war. And as you can imagine by the timeframe, the names we used to refer to the enemy combatants would create a huge stir today.
We hunted squirrels, rabbits, and every kind of birds with our BB/pellet guns. Caught bluegill and sunfish by the scores. We cleaned them and cooked them in our mess kits over open flames, then feasted on them.
I played a lot of baseball by myself using a taped up ball and the side of the barn.
And so it goes. Times and culture have changed. In some ways better, in some ways not so good.
Tom in TN
There is no telling how many "enemy combatants" we killed while playing war. And as you can imagine by the timeframe, the names we used to refer to the enemy combatants would create a huge stir today.
We hunted squirrels, rabbits, and every kind of birds with our BB/pellet guns. Caught bluegill and sunfish by the scores. We cleaned them and cooked them in our mess kits over open flames, then feasted on them.
I played a lot of baseball by myself using a taped up ball and the side of the barn.
And so it goes. Times and culture have changed. In some ways better, in some ways not so good.
Tom in TN
Anybody remember playing fox and geese in the snow in the winter? You'd shuffle your feet and make a big circle in the snow,then make "spokes" so it looked like a wheel. The center was "safe" and you'd chase each other around playing tag. You had to stay in the paths.
Shoot,I used to think it was fun as a kid just to take a shovel and dig a hole then fill it back in.
Shoot,I used to think it was fun as a kid just to take a shovel and dig a hole then fill it back in.
Anonymous-0
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The game we played back then, I guess today in the political correct world would be called, Cow Persons and Native Americans.
old popper
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I walk 2 miles nearly every day. In cold weather I join the Wellness center so I can walk inside. My grandson asked how I could walk without an I-Pod or something like that. "Don't you get bored"? he asked. I said "Of course not, I have something better than an I-Pod,.....imagination".
You had to have a brain between your ears to put a Heath kit together! Build several and they all worked when I turned them on! Raised on a dairy farm you needed to entertain yourself! Had a couple of Tonka and Model toys. I NOW have some VERY nice Doepkey Model Toys from flee bay and they are all nice and clean and WAXED on a couple of littel shelves. Also have a VERY large collection of Tootsie Toys. Most all are trucks and bulldozers and such. Have you ever seen the CHEVY cab over tanker trailer truck? I have one! Had a full blown Quarry in a big sand pile. Weeds were the trees "lambs quarter",and all of the roads only had tire marks on them. No fair walking on the little roads. A couple of kids from grammer school would come over every few weeks to play.
Tom OConnor
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My Brother had a bow and arrow and we would shoot it straight up in the air and sometimes we could put the arrow out of sight. Had a lot of fun doing this till one day the arrow came down and punched a little hole in the roof of Dad's new Buick Roadmaster.
gtractorfan
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Another game we played was "kick the can". Someone had to be "it", count to a number high enough so the other kids could hide. Had a can at home base. "It" had to find or see the ones hiding, call them out and they were "imprisoned" by the can. If one of the kids could run and kick the can before "it" got there the prisoners were free. Fox and geese was one I especially liked, there was something special about "trails".
Does anyone remember the Twilight Zone episode of kick the can? There was an older guy in a retirement home that wanted to run and play kick the can, he finally got some of the other residents to do it. At the end one of the older guys said he was too old to and saw the rest of them turn into kids as they were playing it and disappear into the woods. Got to love the "irony" of that show.
60 acre hillside
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When I was about twelve a little girl about two years older moved in to a house with a weeping willow tree in the back yard. We had a game called "doctor" It was our favorite game until her mom -------- Well, I need to go look at my tractor.
A Carpenter Bee , a 12 pack of ice cold Miller Light, A great friend and the wall switch for the lights in my old shop....I was mesmerized by the antics of the Carpenter Bee slamming into the florescent light tubes.. As soon as you shut off the lights , suddenly all buzzing noise stopped and you could hear the Bee hit the floor.. Turn the lights back on and the Bee made a "Bee Line" for the light tubes again.. This went on for some time.. Almost as long as the 12 pack lasted....Home entertainment at it's best....
smallercrawler
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Yep! How about red rover? roundtown? crab soccer?
ShadetreeRet
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And no commercials!
jennifer408
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gotta answer the voices, otherwise they get ------.
ShadetreeRet
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My favorite pastime was bike riding. I mean the old fashioned kind that you had to pedal! Sometimes I would ride to school and leave at lunch to go home and help with planting. I had two bikes that were unique for the fifties. One was a standard size bike with a little shifter mounted on the top frame bar. It had a New Departure two speed rear wheel. then an uncle picked up one that had been run over and gave it to me. I spent, IIRC, five dollars for a used front wheel and crank. I was the envy of the entire school with that bike. It was an Indian brand imported from England. The first three speed lightweight I had ever seen. Wish I had a dollar for every mile I put on a bicycle!
Richard from SE AZ
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Those look like boutique, high dollar pants. Believe it or not, I have seen kids pay a lot of money for some like those.
That was better in "Twilight Zone the Movie". Some of the best episodes,,, Remember "to Serve Man" is a cook book! The poor guy that breaks his glasses. The kid who could PUT you in the corn field. The old mountain man and his coon dog who drown and meet the devel and then go to Heaven. The pretty girl in a city apartment with a fever and thinking the earth is going into the sun. You find out a dwarf star or some such has actually pulled the earth away form the sum. One of the very best AND got an award was the one with Rober Redford when he is the angle of death with the old woman. Fred winn as the ultimate Pitch man. Or the guard unit out on manuvers with an M-3 tank and they come across the indian village at Custers last stand? Scares the crap out of a kid and it is very good but.. If you look at it today the teepes are only maybe five and set on grass with nothing tramped down. Also no children or woman or horses. Kind of little things like that. Still a good episode. Now some really good stuff was the radio show "X"minus One. Some of those stories made your brains squirm!
Fergienewbee
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When we played Cowpersons we were always the bad guys: Cole Younger, Billy the Kid, Black Bart, etc. Wolverine stacked bales of leather scraps behind one of the buildings. This was horse or cow before Hush Puppies. We'd get some of the larger pieces and make our own holsters. We played kick the can and capture the flag at church youth programs. We fished a lot and built "camps" every spring from dead grass and sticks. I was three in 1950 and those next 10 years were the best time to grow up.
Larry
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We played Fox & Goose in the winter. In nice weather we played "Anti-I-Over" that we would yell when we threw a ball over the roof of the barn. If someone would catch the ball, they would come around the end of the school barn and tag someone with the ball. That person became the next person to try to throw the ball over the barn.
If we didn't get the ball over the barn, we would yell "Pig's Tail"; then throw it again and try harder to get it over the roof.
Kind of a silly game, but we got some exercise out of it.
If we didn't get the ball over the barn, we would yell "Pig's Tail"; then throw it again and try harder to get it over the roof.
Kind of a silly game, but we got some exercise out of it.
Hay hay hay
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The grand kids (6 and 3) visited me at the farm last weekend.
I had found a small 5" terrapin crossing the road and gave it to them to play with. They had a couple hours of good fun with it, feeding it, naming it, watching it open and close, and then we turned it loose to go back into the wild. Then, running thru the sprinklers when it was 85f was great fun too. They love pretend driving on the tractors.
Amazing how much entertainment can happen without electricity, semiconductors or batteries.
Just plain old country fun for two little city kids.
I had found a small 5" terrapin crossing the road and gave it to them to play with. They had a couple hours of good fun with it, feeding it, naming it, watching it open and close, and then we turned it loose to go back into the wild. Then, running thru the sprinklers when it was 85f was great fun too. They love pretend driving on the tractors.
Amazing how much entertainment can happen without electricity, semiconductors or batteries.
Just plain old country fun for two little city kids.
We used to just roll around a used tire and imagined it was a truck.
Also tied a three-foot piece of "binder" twine around a half inch nut; swing it around and let go of the twine so it would go up way high. Put a small fire-cracker in the nut, light it so it would explode way up there.
We also would put a 3X4 across a 4X4 or larger object as a fulcrum; put a few nails on the end of the 2X4 so that a base-ball would stay there with that end on the ground. Hit the raised end really hard with another 2X4 and see the ball fly high in the air and catch it to repeat. These were all fun.
Also tied a three-foot piece of "binder" twine around a half inch nut; swing it around and let go of the twine so it would go up way high. Put a small fire-cracker in the nut, light it so it would explode way up there.
We also would put a 3X4 across a 4X4 or larger object as a fulcrum; put a few nails on the end of the 2X4 so that a base-ball would stay there with that end on the ground. Hit the raised end really hard with another 2X4 and see the ball fly high in the air and catch it to repeat. These were all fun.
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