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re: Similar childhood memories that most us have
Posted on 4/1/24 at 4:02 pm to HenryParsons
Posted on 4/1/24 at 4:02 pm to HenryParsons
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Playing in a ditch/canal in the neighborhood
Staring into the water and seeing a GDKC staring back at you
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Posted on 4/1/24 at 4:06 pm to ctiger69
Running to my friends houses just because it got me there faster. Running everywhere for that matter.
Posted on 4/1/24 at 4:10 pm to ZZTIGERS
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Riding my bike in the summer and weekends from 8am to dark. We’d also setup neighborhood baseball games. Broke a few windows doing that….
ETA: I’m an 80s-90s kid
You grow up in Bossier?
That was me too. Crazy that some parents (understandably) don't let their kids leave their own street or let them out of their sight even though they have a cell phone when they go play and my rule was "don't be home too late". My childhood was The Sandlot.
Posted on 4/1/24 at 4:31 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Shelling peas at Grandmas on Saturday night with Hee Haw on tv.
I definitely remember this. I can't say it's one of my best memories though. Hated shelling peas. Hated Hee Haw.
Posted on 4/1/24 at 5:18 pm to ctiger69
Watching surgery prep the instruments for removing my tonsils at the OLOL on Capitol Lake. Burger Chef malts. Playing Kick the Can. Watching the breasts grow on the girl next door. Sneaking in Florida Drive in through the cane. Being locked in the car while Mom shopped at Bon Marche. Running like a fool to get to the sporting goods at Gibsons / Howard Brothers. Going to Sears to pick up Dad when he got off at 5.
Posted on 4/1/24 at 5:23 pm to ctiger69
Finding an awesome stick.
Man sticks are awesome.
Hell I still like sticks. Especially ones with pointy bits of metal on the end of them.
Man sticks are awesome.
Hell I still like sticks. Especially ones with pointy bits of metal on the end of them.
Posted on 4/1/24 at 5:27 pm to HenryParsons
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Riding bikes with friends all day long in the summertime
Definitely this
Swimming in a large metal cow trough in my friends back yard
Posted on 4/1/24 at 5:28 pm to ctiger69
Thanks for this thread. About wore my thumb out for the upvotes. Brought back many a childhood memory growing up from elementary through high school all in the 80’s. Damn those were fun times.
Posted on 4/1/24 at 5:32 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Throwing large objects into calm bodies of water just to hear the splash.
Still do this as an adult. The sounds of that hollow thump…..not a better sound in the moment.
Posted on 4/1/24 at 5:36 pm to ctiger69
Watching the Sinbad genie movie.
Reading Berenstein Bears books.
Singing out loud with friends “We are the Champions OF THE WORLD!!”
The chills I got when Darth Vader said “Luke, I am your father.”
Reading Berenstein Bears books.
Singing out loud with friends “We are the Champions OF THE WORLD!!”
The chills I got when Darth Vader said “Luke, I am your father.”
Posted on 4/1/24 at 5:36 pm to WhiteRussianDude
Picking Dewberries along the fence lines.
I would pick for hours along roads, gallons and gallons.
I used to think they were called Doobers. At first I called them blackberries, but then one day an old man corrected me, in a THICK accent, saying.
"Them eren't Blackburrs, them is Dooburrs."
So young me was all "okay, they're Doobers."
Now I know he was saying "Dewberries."
I would pick for hours along roads, gallons and gallons.
I used to think they were called Doobers. At first I called them blackberries, but then one day an old man corrected me, in a THICK accent, saying.
"Them eren't Blackburrs, them is Dooburrs."
So young me was all "okay, they're Doobers."
Now I know he was saying "Dewberries."
Posted on 4/1/24 at 5:53 pm to fr33manator
Snowball fights ... ok i didn't grow up in LA ;)
Posted on 4/1/24 at 5:54 pm to ctiger69
4th of July was always fantastic, my buddies and I would find creative ways of using firecrackers.
Posted on 4/1/24 at 5:55 pm to OntarioTiger
We had dirt clod wars.
I had the privilege of growing up with literal hills of dirt to use. We would build all kinds of forts (frick man forts were awesome.)
Out of felled trees and random junk dad brought home by the trailer load.
Man we built some bad arse shite. Like multi-room stuff. And if it wasn't dirt clods it was hickory nuts, or these weird little round cucumber smelling melon things that grew in the field.
Man one time we used some wood and some old hay bales, and then we had some leftover fireworks, Roman candles and smoke bombs and stuff.
By the end the forts were on fire and we were running around like maniacs.
It's a wonder I only lost an eye.
I had the privilege of growing up with literal hills of dirt to use. We would build all kinds of forts (frick man forts were awesome.)
Out of felled trees and random junk dad brought home by the trailer load.
Man we built some bad arse shite. Like multi-room stuff. And if it wasn't dirt clods it was hickory nuts, or these weird little round cucumber smelling melon things that grew in the field.
Man one time we used some wood and some old hay bales, and then we had some leftover fireworks, Roman candles and smoke bombs and stuff.
By the end the forts were on fire and we were running around like maniacs.
It's a wonder I only lost an eye.
This post was edited on 4/1/24 at 6:00 pm
Posted on 4/1/24 at 6:44 pm to GreenRockTiger
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I was 3 when I went to the World’s Fair in NOLA in 1984 - I’m sure others have memories of that
I was there, and 5yo. My only memory is getting there early, my dad intentionally parking in the way back to make sure we were the first to leave…
my parents being frustrated as hell because they couldnt find the car on the way out, lije something out if the griswold’s
Posted on 4/1/24 at 6:48 pm to ctiger69
Ouija board. My grandmother had one. We talked to the dead. Don't know to this day if it was real or not but the dick moved while playing with my cousins.
Besides that normal kid stuff. Camping, drinking, and fighting.
Besides that normal kid stuff. Camping, drinking, and fighting.
Posted on 4/1/24 at 6:51 pm to iPleadDaFif
My NOLA childhood memory was the King Tut exhibit
my dad made fun of me for being short and I saw a t-shirt that said/read Come eat at the Y and it was DIRTY
that City has traumatized me from the very beginning
my dad made fun of me for being short and I saw a t-shirt that said/read Come eat at the Y and it was DIRTY
that City has traumatized me from the very beginning
Posted on 4/1/24 at 6:53 pm to OWLFAN86
NOLA is unique
Posted on 4/1/24 at 6:59 pm to ctiger69
recording songs on the radio to blank casette tapes
Posted on 4/1/24 at 7:00 pm to saintsfan1977
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Don't know to this day if it was real or not
Dude...it's a parlor game by Milton Bradley
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