Evo said:
Slingshots were fun.
Who here (as a child) had a
- microscope
-telescope
-invisible man or woman model that they built
All of the above
My most anticipated toy was a Cap Gun for my birthday, since it was just a few days before the 4th of July, I was armed and ready!
There are lots of memories in this Thread!
Gokart & Forts! OMG
My best friend (our backyards were joined at a corner only, of course the field/orchard which we had to cut through to get back and forth was owned by the neighborhood witch, but that is another story!) Ok, now back to my friend! His dad was a logger/mechanic/inventor/drunk who had a shop stuffed full of amazing mechanical junk. Our go-carts started as EVO described boards with wheels (guess where we found some old soap box derby wheel!) we eventually went motorized with motors found in that wonderfully old shop!) Our neighborhood was a boys dream land, we lived at the top of a bluff, down one street was a steep hill with a 90 degree corner (or into the driveway and front door of a Ma and Pa Brady style shack).
Oh yeah, Forts! as I said my Buddy's dad was collector of amazing junk, this included a pile of 10'-12' long edges of "peeler cores" a peeler core is what is left of a log that has been peeled into veneer for manufacture of plywood. So someone must have squared off a bunch of these leaving boards were flat on side and radiused on the other. We used this to make forts of all sizes and shapes, these were forts could hold off attacks of dirt clods, apples, and well the imagination was king.. God what fun we had.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I think my buddy should be considered for co-inventor of the skate board. The first I ever hear or saw of one was a 2x4 and an old pair of skates (the key was long gone!) This was somewhere between 1960 and '63. I was never able to master them but Everette Alan was a master.
I would have liked one.
