Things that kids today will never know.
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Donnie D
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Man, I primed and hung tobacco every summer for about 7 years. It was HOT, NASTY, STICKY, DIRTY, COLD (right after an afternoon thunderstorm you thought you would freeze to death) work, but it was also some of the most fun and good times I ever had. Smokin cigarettes, telling dirty jokes, putting snakes under the tobacco leaves in the sled, and waiting to hear the women at the barn scream when they uncovered them, all that neat stuff.
But yes, during those days I poured a many a peanut into my Pepsi Colas.
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I can't find any info on this online. We used to go Yella Hamma hunting in old tobacco barns. Climb to the top and grab sleeping birds from behind at night. My cousin grabbed a hawk one time. Have yall heard of this?
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Donnie D
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I haven't
Snoopz
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Mom & Pop corner Grocery Stores (there's probably a few still around)
Penny Candy, Fake cigarettes candy (sugar stick), Wax soda bottle candy
w/ flavored water inside. soda machines 2 types, one was chest type had
to navigate the bottle neck around and pull it out, then the upright, had to
slide the bottle across and out 'fingers" Pez Dispensers, 5-cent candy bars,
Soda bottle returns, The ole Etch A Sketch, Vinyl records, 45's (used to be
in Tator chip bags A&P) 33 1/3 records, LP's, 8-Tracks, Laser Disks, Beta-Max,
VHS, Vacuum Tubes, Cassettes, Cracker Jacks actually had something worth
while inside. Transistor Radio, Dial-up, Modem, " Rabbit Ears" (or a coat hanger)
AOL, Netscape, DOS, CPM, BBS, "Party Line", Phone book / yellow pages.
Fuses instead of breakers. "Reel" push mower. Thrashing machine, Corn Shocks.
"Cut" potatoes (3 eyes per cut) for planting, scalded lettuce, "mountain oysters"
Woolco, Hechinger, Waxie-Maxie, Tower Records, Record Traders, Peoples
Drug store when they had the fountain / food, Woolworths the same.
Sears and Reobuck sold guns, walk in pay and work out. Sunoco 260 (.32 gal)
a penney was "cooper" silver dimes , quarters, 50-cent pieces, silver dollars,
"weed pennies" can go on and on...life was simple
-Snoopz
Penny Candy, Fake cigarettes candy (sugar stick), Wax soda bottle candy
w/ flavored water inside. soda machines 2 types, one was chest type had
to navigate the bottle neck around and pull it out, then the upright, had to
slide the bottle across and out 'fingers" Pez Dispensers, 5-cent candy bars,
Soda bottle returns, The ole Etch A Sketch, Vinyl records, 45's (used to be
in Tator chip bags A&P) 33 1/3 records, LP's, 8-Tracks, Laser Disks, Beta-Max,
VHS, Vacuum Tubes, Cassettes, Cracker Jacks actually had something worth
while inside. Transistor Radio, Dial-up, Modem, " Rabbit Ears" (or a coat hanger)
AOL, Netscape, DOS, CPM, BBS, "Party Line", Phone book / yellow pages.
Fuses instead of breakers. "Reel" push mower. Thrashing machine, Corn Shocks.
"Cut" potatoes (3 eyes per cut) for planting, scalded lettuce, "mountain oysters"
Woolco, Hechinger, Waxie-Maxie, Tower Records, Record Traders, Peoples
Drug store when they had the fountain / food, Woolworths the same.
Sears and Reobuck sold guns, walk in pay and work out. Sunoco 260 (.32 gal)
a penney was "cooper" silver dimes , quarters, 50-cent pieces, silver dollars,
"weed pennies" can go on and on...life was simple
-Snoopz
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Grandma washed clothes in a gasoline powered washing machine till '77 & pitched a bitch when Grandpa brought home that gynormous microwave in '79. Dad's car had an 8-track until '84 & my grandparents still had a party line when I moved out in '86.
Oh! Those stupid Lite Brites & Spirograph.
Do kids these days still build model cars? I wasn't necessarily great at 'em, but I certainly spent many an hour building them.
How about bump starting your POS used car or motorcycle?
Oh! Those stupid Lite Brites & Spirograph.
Do kids these days still build model cars? I wasn't necessarily great at 'em, but I certainly spent many an hour building them.
How about bump starting your POS used car or motorcycle?
I still keep an atlas in my vehicles and I have GPS in both vehicles. I like traveling back roads lots of times. More fun seeing different things.
Snoopz
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Oh yeah... Model Rockets (Estes, Century) Model Air Planes, P51 was the best one (we are talking ones that take COX motors here)
My 71 SS Chevelle had the 8-Track, couldn't hear it though over that BB 454 Rat motor / Hooker headers and a wild cam Wore out
the Steppenwolf 8-track..Magic Carpet Ride, Born to Be Wild, The Pusher, And Grand Funk Railroad.. We're An American Band, Feel'in
Alright, I'm Your Captain... Good times for sure...
-Snoopz
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Speaking of...I used to use model rocket engines to make huge bottle rockets. I'd rip some kite sticks on the table saw in the garage and tape the engines to them. Those get some awesome altitude.
And put some...er..."charges" on the ends. If they were good ones, you could just barely hear them go off, they'd be so high.
When i was 10 or 11 my mom caught me with a big bag of those illegal South Carolina fireworks hidden in our garage. I had traded half of my baseball card collection for them and was pretty disappointed to get caught before i could have my own personal 4th of July.
Ah the home made rpg. Been there, shot that at a government vehicle lol
Not only that, but the heiress of the Lance empire is married to NC's most famous pro fishermen, Hank Parker.
Snoopz
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My...my...a destructive bunch we have here... would buy a cheap single stage rocket kit that took the "D" Engines
would use a multi-stage engine the one that ignited the next engine, the payload was M80's, would use some
as ground to ground rockets.. other set em off at night..late.. 4F powder as the payload..did the homemade
bottle rocket thing,take some pipe, light and drop it in it, Dad made a cannon nothing big could set it on
the table, would set it off with all and anything that could be a projectile, marbles, BB's, tacks, that thing
would go tumbling end over end, yes used the igniters from rocket engines to light the fuse. all kinds of
crazyness.
then the old smoke bombs.. used to also put "cow feces" in a baggie inside the brown paper bag, light it and
the people "stomp" it out..priceless.
then some stupid stuff a friend and I put a small pile of black powder in the middle of the road, it was pitch
black outside, late at night, he / we got the idea to light it, well it did not catch at first 2nd time it did, and
oh my all I saw was a bright flash, my friend was smacking his face, he "had a ZZ-Top like beard" when I
regained my night vision back...his face was smokin it took all I could do not to laugh, he didn't get burned
on the skin, just the beard, saw him the next day with this short beard, this is stuff you see the 3 stooges
do, after that I would just say.. "smoke" smoke"..smoke" I smell hair on fire. Man good ole days and some
fun days..
-Snoopz
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When we could get M80s, we'd buy the fatso sparkle-y bottle rockets, pull the caps off, dump that sissy colored crap & replace it with an M80, fuse pointing down. Always a satisfying whoomph when they'd blow at altitude.
Roman candle fights & bottle rocket battles were a given. Lighting a pack of bumblebees & lobbing them at the feet of somebody not paying attention was always popular.
Roman candle fights & bottle rocket battles were a given. Lighting a pack of bumblebees & lobbing them at the feet of somebody not paying attention was always popular.
My rpgs were d class Estes engines fired from a shoulder launcher with a warhead made from shotgun propellant in a metal pill bottle with a small hole to allow the charge that deploys the parachute to ignite the warhead. It worked pretty well.
Snoopz
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100 pack of "Black Cat Firecrackers"under the carcoal when someone else was lighting it.
you know the guy everything has to be just right when he's starting his grill, he leaves to
go get something and that's when we move the charcoal and place the 100 pack under
it in the center, you get some amazing results.
-Snoopz
We were primitives & thought we were the shizz with a piece of half inch pipe for a launcher.
Liked to light a bottle rocket & throw it as high as I can. It'd light off right as the 'rocket nosed over & was great for playing bottle rocket artillery.
It's a miracle we didn't kill ourselves.
Liked to light a bottle rocket & throw it as high as I can. It'd light off right as the 'rocket nosed over & was great for playing bottle rocket artillery.
It's a miracle we didn't kill ourselves.
Snoopz
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hmmm. I like it..Now that sounds interesting and creative...
Snoopz
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ain't that the truth...still have the digits..and no puncture wounds from it.
There was a Hardware store here, Mays that carried model rocket stuff so they were the
backup supplier. Anything that went boom was the ticket back then, and it really didn't
cost a lot. would "MacGyver" a lot of things
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We ran the gamut with Estes engines, pretty much tried everything. Made big bottle rockets, extracted the propellant and made various bombs, tape ducked stages together to see what would happen, shot them out of appropriately sized metal pipes, tethered a few together to see what would happen, threw them into bonfires, etc., etc.
My favorite memory is somehow perverting a middle school English project into an Estes rocket build and demo. Had the whole class out on the field to watch the launch. We launched two rockets, one a single stage Mars Snooper II (skill level 4!), and the other some simple double stage with D engines. The Snooper landed on the school roof, and the other failed to ignite the second stage and embedded nose first in the field, where the second stage ignited after going nose-in. Fun times!
My favorite memory is somehow perverting a middle school English project into an Estes rocket build and demo. Had the whole class out on the field to watch the launch. We launched two rockets, one a single stage Mars Snooper II (skill level 4!), and the other some simple double stage with D engines. The Snooper landed on the school roof, and the other failed to ignite the second stage and embedded nose first in the field, where the second stage ignited after going nose-in. Fun times!
Oh yeah, I would plant cans of hairspray or spray paint in the ashes in the burn barrel. Grandma'd be watching the trash burn n making sure no embers caught the pasture on fire & when those cans'd cook off, they'd send a geyser of flaming trash sky high. Scared her the first time& pissed her off good the next. She got real suspicious, so I knocked it off before she caught me.
Pretty sure that was about the same time that I got suspended for a week for igniting my chemistry lab partner.
Pretty sure that was about the same time that I got suspended for a week for igniting my chemistry lab partner.
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We were downright ferrel by today's standards. I remember seeing "don't burn or puncture" on cans of spray paint, and so we'd throw it in the bonfire and hack at it with a garden hoe to see what would happen. Flame geysers!
The two things we knew not to F around with: gasoline, and mixing bleach and ammonia. Everything else was fair game.
So we played with mercury, strong acids, electrolysis, high voltage. You know, the safe stuff.
Snoopz
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what a crazy bunch.. worked nite crew decades ago, we had a guy who would chew, chewing tobacie
and leave his can of spit sit in his aisle, so one nite we took a cigarette, used it as a fuse, crazy glued
some black cats to it. lit the cig and he was about 10 feet away from it when it went off, never seen
anybody swallow his chew and run the same time..we could of lost our jobs if he told but he knew
better.cause he would go also..
hair spray, paint cans, Lysol, butane, used to take federal paper hulls cut the base off and pack it in
a model rocket with a multi stage engine.. If I knew back then what I know now about those hulls
I would of kept them..
-Snoopz.
and leave his can of spit sit in his aisle, so one nite we took a cigarette, used it as a fuse, crazy glued
some black cats to it. lit the cig and he was about 10 feet away from it when it went off, never seen
anybody swallow his chew and run the same time..we could of lost our jobs if he told but he knew
better.cause he would go also..
hair spray, paint cans, Lysol, butane, used to take federal paper hulls cut the base off and pack it in
a model rocket with a multi stage engine.. If I knew back then what I know now about those hulls
I would of kept them..
-Snoopz.
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Modified nose cone... shotgun primer on the front, hollow it out and fill with ffg. Impact detonation. Later versions with primer and pin over the rocket motor so the separator charge meant to deploy the chute set it off. Impact t or time fuse..m
Ahhh the memories...
Ahhh the memories...
We did this exact thing in the woods beside my friends house. Dug a hole about 15"deep and got a good fire rolling.
Started looking for cans to throw in it. The lysol can (half full) exploded and shot a greenish flame straight up about 8ft and lit the tree on fire.
We were freaking out and laughing at the same time. We quickly learned how to become firemen that day with my buddy's hose and the neighbors working together from opposite sides of the flame.
I could never get those to work. My first version attempted to use a coin with a pin through it placed over the chute deployment charge to set off a shotgun shell in the nose. Never did quite line up and work and the payload made everything horribly nose heavy.
You're making me wish I had some land so I could cook up some of these ideas one more time....
Cardboard disk with a blunted thumbtack... cut to inner diameter and smooth the edges; if it wants to tip stack a couple of layers
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Riding your Schwin Stingray bike, with a gas can on the nut buster bar, to the gas station, to buy gas for 35 cents so you could cut the grass or get your butt kicked when your dad got home from work. My dad never gave me a whippin' me but he could give me a look that made my butt hurt.
Snoopz
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This thread has all of us like "kids" again..amazing. and fitting. "should be when we were kids"
Model rocket with engine that has the ejection charge, a round disk with hole in center, a nail (common with flat head) 12 ga shell sans shot, glued in the rocket tube, so when the ejection charge goes off. drives nail into primer...puff. you can modify this...Dad had a metal lathe, drill press and all kinds of metal rods laying around, aluminum works great, light weight. I liked the rockets that were nose heavy just one big arc, had models disappear on the launch pad. Used Nichrome wire for my
igniters, mulitple uses.
-Snoopz
Model rocket with engine that has the ejection charge, a round disk with hole in center, a nail (common with flat head) 12 ga shell sans shot, glued in the rocket tube, so when the ejection charge goes off. drives nail into primer...puff. you can modify this...Dad had a metal lathe, drill press and all kinds of metal rods laying around, aluminum works great, light weight. I liked the rockets that were nose heavy just one big arc, had models disappear on the launch pad. Used Nichrome wire for my
igniters, mulitple uses.
-Snoopz
Snoopz
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Let's not forget the Baseball cards / Playing cards, clothes pin for that noise maker when the card hits the wheel spokes. Speaking of Baseball cards that came in a pack of bubblegum.
My granny had a willow tree.. was told more than once to go and get my own switch, would come back with a sprug. But Granny always had "spares" in her umbrella holder by the door. not good...
-Snoopz
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My sister and I pissed Mom off so bad one day she used the sprigs we brought her.
Those things wrap around your legs and peel skin when she jerked them to take another swing.
Sis and I would fight for the big ones after that as them would break and not wrap around you.
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I grew up with 2 of these 3 options...
Snoopz
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was all 3 options and to add affordable firearms
HK's, M1A's, AUG's, FN-FAL's, MAC's, M2HB's, M60's
BM-59's, Colt Gold Cup's, Python's, Blackhawk's
All kinds of Smith's, Belgium Browning Shotgun's
Friends owned a Shop...Not Good for Me.
And affordable Reloading Supplies
could buy a sleeve (5-boxes) Sierra 168HPBT for 1 box today
Primers almost 7k or more for what 1k cost now.
Powder.. won't even go there.
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