Knoch-knock. Can Ledgie come out and play?

[darklinensuit]

What did you guys play when you were little?

There were a lot of kids on my street growing up. It was like something from the '50s suburbia (NO, I'm not that old) - the houses on the hill, the connecting streets, the cul-de-sac at the end with the park, the neighbors we all knew.

We played the following:
- running bases
- superheroes
- practicing plays such as Grease ( ) and an original ghost story
- with weeble wobbles, Colorforms, Micronauts, Sit & Spin, trading cards
- Pong, Atari, air hockey
- catch, blowing bubbles
- on swingsets
- hide and seek (Best in the dark in a basement, where the seeker gets to use a flashlight)
- drawing on sidewalks, & that thing that spun around as you dripped paints on it
- Mousetrap, & that plastic thing with the boxers punching each other
- kick the can, capture the flag, steal the bacon, baby in the air
- Trouble, Sorry, Operation
- Zim-Zam (Does ANYONE remember this? We had one in my backyard.)

I remember the hot days where our mothers would tell us we HAD to go outside to play because the weather was so nice, and we would get mad at our mothers.

Can you come play? I'll let you choose the game.

[darklinensuit]

I just had a weird sort-of-Stevie-moment RIGHT after posting this thread.
One of the toys I played with, I couldn't remember the name. The thing where you use the oddly shaped plastic tools to move your writing utensils in patterns & make interesting designs.
I gave up thinking about it & for some reason clicked onto the lyrics & interp.s forum, where I NEVER EVER go. I saw several threads & clicked FIRST on the Stevie review from 1983.
The article begins:

"Stevie Nicks Twirling In Her Fantasy World
by Steve Pond

Question: Who has more scarves than Elvis Presley? Who giggles more than the girls at a sixth-grade slumber party? Who twirls around more than a boxful of gyroscopes? Who sells more records than Fleetwood Mac?"

This freaks me out! "Gyroscopes" was what I was just trying to think of! It's like something supernatural directed me to this very article at this moment! How weird is that!

- Jake

[DeadliestPoison]

I used to play Power Rangers during recess in Elemenatary school. We have, like, no kids on our street, so recess was all I got.

[estranged4life]

Baseball (From the age of 6 to 17, A wrist injury ended my career or otherwise I would still be playing. My best friend Trina was the best pitcher on an opposing team, And I enjoyed creaming the s--t outta her 70-80 MPH pitches as a teen! When we grew to older teens we played...uh..."Doctor", We were inseparable, More like Brother & Sister than anything else.)

Army (The field near our home had an ol' Civil War battlefield look to it, With bunkers, hideaways & a large pond right in the middle.)

Fireworks Stand (Around this time of year my 2 older brothers & myself would take all the fireworks we had bought and set 'em up on the porchsteps and pretend we ran a fireworks stand, I still have vivid memories of this when I was between the ages 5-7)

Atari 2600 (I enjoyed buying all the new games and figuring out how to cheat at 'em...I had "Raiders of The Lost Ark" figured out in a days time, And at the time it was one of the hardest Atari games to decypher)

Music (The only time music will leave my life is when my life ends...)

Beating the living s--t outta the other kids in the neighborhood-Our fave pastime, If ya moved into our neighborhood ya got yer ass kicked, Especially if yer last name was Gann (We owned those b-tches)...It comes with the territory.

Going to the Silvermine arcade at Curt's Mall (We knew the owner and always got to play free arcade classics like Pac-Man, Pong, Star Wars, Tank Zone & the ever popular Kiss Pinball machine)

Monopoly-I am the undisputed world champ at Monoppoly...That is cheating at Monopoly, My Mother even lets people know how much I would cheat, hehehehe!!!!

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

I used to play Power Rangers during recess in Elemenatary school. We have, like, no kids on our street, so recess was all I got.

Power Rangers is after my time, you whippersnapper. (Where's the smilie with a cane & the words "Get off my lawn!")
Did you have a favorite Power Ranger? (Is there a difference besides the gender & unifiorm colors?)

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

Baseball (From the age of 6 to 17, A wrist injury ended my career or otherwise I would still be playing. My best friend Trina was the best pitcher on an opposing team, And I enjoyed creaming the s--t outta her 70-80 MPH pitches as a teen! When we grew to older teens we played...uh..."Doctor", We were inseparable, More like Brother & Sister than anything else.)

Army (The field near our home had an ol' Civil War battlefield look to it, With bunkers, hideaways & a large pond right in the middle.)

Fireworks Stand (Around this time of year my 2 older brothers & myself would take all the fireworks we had bought and set 'em up on the porchsteps and pretend we ran a fireworks stand, I still have vivid memories of this when I was between the ages 5-7)

Atari 2600 (I enjoyed buying all the new games and figuring out how to cheap at 'em...I had "Radiers of The Lost Ark" figured out in a days time, And at the time it was one of the hardest Atari games to decypher)

Music (The only time music will leave my life is when my life ends...)

Beating the living s--t outta the other kids in the neighborhood-Our fave pastime, If ya moved into our neighborhood ya got yer ass kicked, Especially if yer last name was Gann (We owned those b-tches)...It comes with the territory.

Going to the arcade at Curt's Mall (We new the owner and always got to play free arcade classics like Pac-Man, Pong, Star Wars, Tank Zone & the ever popular Kiss Pinball machine)

The army thing sounds cool. The park at the cul-de-sac was nothing special, except there were hills for cool sledding on either side, & the older kids made up these stories about Indians killing people with a fallen tree and a boulder that are still there. I had cool nightmares about headhunters marching up the street to my bedroom.

Were you always a big kid, or did you also get beaten up?

- Jake

[DeadliestPoison]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Power Rangers is after my time, you whippersnapper. (Where's the smilie with a cane & the words "Get off my lawn!")
Did you have a favorite Power Ranger? (Is there a difference besides the gender & unifiorm colors?)

- Jake

Hee. My favorite was always the yellow ranger. No matter who it was - Trini, Aisha.. the other ones. I stopped watching in 3rd grade.

After I posted, I remembered I'd swing all recess after I realized that the Power Rangers were lame.

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Hee. My favorite was always the yellow ranger. No matter who it was - Trini, Aisha.. the other ones. I stopped watching in 3rd grade.

After I posted, I remembered I'd swing all recess after I realized that the Power Rangers were lame.

It's tough, comng of age. I remember how my world was rocked when in the first grade Mrs. Warner gave us a stern lecture that the Fonz was not cool. You don't recover easily from those hard life lessons.

- Jake

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Hee. My favorite was always the yellow ranger. No matter who it was - Trini, Aisha.. the other ones. I stopped watching in 3rd grade.

After I posted, I remembered I'd swing all recess after I realized that the Power Rangers were lame.

Wow...you were in 3rd grade...damn i'm old.

We played a lot of jailbreak during the summertime, streethockey, capture the flag, hide and seek (sometimes we'd be asses and not look for the person ) , we'd jump on the trampoline, play soccer, play with dolls, put on shows....ahhh...sometimes I'd like to go back to that...

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

Wow...you were in 3rd grade...damn i'm old.

We played a lot of jailbreak during the summertime, streethockey, capture the flag, hide and seek (sometimes we'd be asses and not look for the person ) ...

We did that a few times, if somebody was the seeker in hide & seek or the kicker in kick the can. We'd all go into somebody's house and watch TV in the air conditioning.
I'm going to be making this up in my next life.

- Jake

[estranged4life]

the baby (My oldest brother Bill is 6 years older and Geary is 4 years older) so the only time when I got my ass kicked was by my brothers.

We used to play kickball too, I remember never beating Geary and I hated it, He enjoyed annoying the s--t outta me, But life has a payback...His daughter Kendra is basically my clone (She has my looks & personality, So much it is eerie...Poor girl!!!) and she is as hyper now as I was as a child.

Going to the midnight movie/drive-in was also cool. I remember seeing Star Wars the weekend it was released and only 5 people were at the cinema: MY brothers Bill & Geary, My brother Bill's girlfriend Carrie & her sister Tonya (Who I think is Christine McVie's long lost daughter, The resemblance is uncanny) & myself. We (Geary & myself) sat in the front row and chuncked popcorn at Darth Vader when he talked in the deep breath voice, Telling him to "Wake up".

Football was another fave-My Mother loved to play tackle the man and we would all play in the field across from our home (My Mother could also play baseball), But she would pin me down and tickle me til I p-ssed myself (Trust me, If anyone tries to tickle me now I "run like hell"!!!!)

Another childhood memory I have is when my Mother bought her 1976 Pontiac Trans-Am (I come from a long line of auto mechanics & race car drivers, My late Father was an auto mechanic & TV repairman, I inherited his technical ability)...She had it tuned up so it could exceed the 180MPH on the speedometer. It was clocked by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol at 186MPH...This one cocky patrolman had a 1979 Bandit Limited Edition Turbo TA he thought was hotsh-t, So he challenge my Mother to a dragrace on a highway while the other OHP troopers in his unit watched to make sure the race happened without accident and they thought he would win, So this dumbass wanted to make it a "pinkslip" race which my Mother accepted happily...My Mother smoke his happy ass so bad the other troopers were laughing at his humilated ass when the race was over. He is lucky we didnt bring out the 1969 SS Camaro we owned, It was faster than my Mom's TA!!!

[DeadliestPoison]

My sister & I played Hide & Seek in the house. Before she became EVIL. (Ask Riss!)

I remember when I was little I used to be obsessed with... I wanna say Mighty Max? He was like Polly Pocket for boys. I remember having a little science lab one and I remember finding a huge mountain thing in my mom's closet.... that I was getting for Christmas.

I just thought Santa dropped it off early.

I didn't find out about Santa until... 3rd grade, maybe. I learned the hard way. I was telling people in the lunch line about the stuff I got and the 5th graders were like "You LOSERS. Santa isn't REEEEEAL." I should have picked up on it when I was throwing something in the trash can in the kitchen and I saw all of the cookies we had left out for Santa in there. -_- I figured he just knew where the trash can was.

My parents LOVED messing with us re: Santa. My dad would put fake deer hoove prints in the snow in the backyard and we fell for it every. time.

G-d we were lame.

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

It was faster than my Mom's TA!!!

I'm not touching this line.

For some reason we almost never played football, though we played every other sport.
And we played Star Wars. I had a plastic light saber that would glow in the darkif you held it ahile to a light. Being too lazy and clever for my own good, I put the light saber under the bathroom lights, ontop of the mirrored medicine cabinet. When I remembered it was there, I found it had melted.
Do you own fast cars these days?

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

My sister & I played Hide & Seek in the house. Before she became EVIL. (Ask Riss!)

I remember when I was little I used to be obsessed with... I wanna say Mighty Max? He was like Polly Pocket for boys. I remember having a little science lab one and I remember finding a huge mountain thing in my mom's closet.... that I was getting for Christmas.

I just thought Santa dropped it off early.

I didn't find out about Santa until... 3rd grade, maybe. I learned the hard way. I was telling people in the lunch line about the stuff I got and the 5th graders were like "You LOSERS. Santa isn't REEEEEAL." I should have picked up on it when I was throwing something in the trash can in the kitchen and I saw all of the cookies we had left out for Santa in there. -_- I figured he just knew where the trash can was.

My parents LOVED messing with us re: Santa. My dad would put fake deer hoove prints in the snow in the backyard and we fell for it every. time.

G-d we were lame.

Is your father Chevy Chase/Clark Griswald?

- Jake

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

I didn't find out about Santa until... 3rd grade, maybe. I learned the hard way. I was telling people in the lunch line about the stuff I got and the 5th graders were like "You LOSERS. Santa isn't REEEEEAL."

in our house, Well kinda.

My Mother would buy the presents early and try to hide 'em from us 3 boy, So was she ever surprised one Christmas when we found the presents in her bedroom and opened 'em up to see what we were receiving....The only problem was that we rewrapped the presents in different paper!!! Man, was she po'd or what

Not as po'd as when I dialed a pay-per-call sports line and ran up a several hundred dollar phone bill, Let's say we definitely werent a "spare the rod, spoil the child" family