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[out_totheblack]

Those of You Born  1930 - 1979

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

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[meredith_wood]

Cookie dough! And cake batter! We ate it and we didn't get sick. :-) Crazy stuff as a kid...aside from just about everything on this list and what you did, we sold lemonade for a nickel a cup in the front yard and the neighbors actually bought it. We'd then walk to the dime store to spend our loot on more candy. :-) We tried to make wings out of big leaves more times than I can count. My brother and I tried to dig to China. We spent a whole day digging a hole in the back yard. We never made it to China, but man was our dad mad when he got home. lol

[out_totheblack]

We used to play Robin Hood, but apparently, in my neighborhood, you can only play Robin Hood while you're IN a tree. We played a lot of fort too. We'd make forts out of anything and lob mud covered gum balls at each other and use home made bows and arrows and spears.

I was about the only girl in an all boy neighborhood. Good thing I'm a natural tom-boy.

[jongibbs]

My brothers and sisters nicknamed me 'Harold' after I twice got shot in the eye with homemade bow and arrows (at the time King Harold of Wessex was widely believed to have died that way in the battle of Hastings, 1066)

[out_totheblack]

Well, I guess it's good we didn't put any eyes out, then. I've been hit in the eye with a baseball coming right off the bat and the handle end of a screw driver.

[out_totheblack]

Ooo, that's bad (on the eye). I haven't seem a lemonade stand in the neighborhood in about 7 years :(

[wiredwizard]

We spent long hours in my friend's father's workshop carving fancy looking swords out of 2x4's, & then destroying them in under a week playing King Arthur & trying to beat each other senseless w/ 'em.

We did tag-team wrestling on the trampoline w/ extra points if you could bounce your opponent off the trampoline when throwing 'em.

We built ramps to try & do bicycle jumps over the driveway.

We built a fortress & spent way to much time swinging off its roof, jumping off its roof, etc.

Horse racing! (Man would my father get upset when he caught us using his stallion for horse racing - what can I say, he was the fastest & best trained horse! He should have been happy we never considered jousting... ;) )

Archery wars! (My friend's mother stepped out the back door & got caught in the crossfire. Good thing those homemade willow arrows weren't all that pointy!)

Building ramps in the winter to go flying through the air on those snow-saucers (that doubled as shields when we played in the summer)

[out_totheblack]

Oh, wow. The old "bounce your buddy off the trampoline." We did that. I have an ankle that's still weak. We did dodge archery as well as dodge ball. We'd play at dusk and only aim below the knee. See, we were safty conscious.

LOL, I think your dad would have been very upset with the jousting :) But it would have been great to watch!

[wiredwizard]

Especially fun since we never bothered w/ saddles or anything like that. ;)

[out_totheblack]

Yeah. I broke an arm like that. It'd been raining and I thought that was a perfect opportunity to practise bareback riding seeing as how the ground was soft.