🤔 1923-1973 Do You Remember...

[Anonymous]

👍Tell us about YOUR "good old days"......

BORN: Age 50 - 1973, Age 60 - 1963, Age 70 - 1953, Age 80 - 1943, Age 90 - 1933, Age 100 - 1923.

[papawofboo]

When did you sneak in my house and take this picture?

[SereneSeagull]

That and Fannie Farmer!

[LeeS4949]

 I actually have one of those ! (but dont tell "the guys". If they found out Id probably get kicked out of the "guy club" and have to turn in my secret decoder ring.)

[LisaS961881]

    Lee,

         Thanks for the smile!  I still have mine too, but it’s in rougher shape than the one pictured!  😇 (….and you are quite welcome in this club! )

[LeeS4949]

  😊  

[DaveMcK]

[SereneSeagull]

Glue!

[DaveMcK]

[LisaS961881]

   Did anyone else have these before they were banned almost everywhere?

        😇

[GailL1]

I have NEVER seen or heard about these - we were pretty poor and lived way out on a farm so no real stores around - Katz Store?  what;’s that?   But we did do a lot of damage to ourselves, others and property with homemade sling shots.  When we got older, everybody did get a BB gun or at least a hand-me-down.

Bikes were even a rarity until later on when the roads got paved.

Yep - a different beginning.  Trying to remember when we got indoor plumbing.  

[LeeS4949]

  Yessss ! The old Red Ryder BB guns.. Most all of us kids had one eventually.. I made my own sling shot out of an old inner tube cut into strips ( remember those,before tubeless tires? ) and a Y shaped piece of oak.. I discovered later that by combining 2 strips of tube on each side and weaving them together I could increase the muzzle velocity of my slingshot dramatically.. Possibly my first introduction into the physical sciences.

[LisaS961881]

   Well Gail, we always had indoor plumbing, but every summer for about five years, I went to a three week “sleep away” camp that had horseback riding, swimming, crafts, and latrines!

    ….and I loved it! 🙋

[MsStretch]

I don't remember Katz Store, either, but homemade slingshots?  Oh, yes!  We used to hold battles with those.  What bad could happen with slinging gravel and rocks at each other?  I remember making some with the elastic bands from our underwear.  That definitely didn't go well with Mom. 😠  

[LisaS961881]

      Good times - we really knew how to make our own fun! 

[WebWiseWoman]

umm, ya, every kid on our block owned at least one set (think they were maybe 50 cents at the Katz store down the street).

I bet if you did an x-ray on half of us on our forearms you'd see the reminders we were left with...

[LisaS961881]

…. I giggled at your “x-ray” comment!  
     Yup, in those days, we just picked ourselves up off the ground, dusted off, and if we still had all of our teeth, we just kept on playing!  As Lee and Gail mentioned, what’s a few bruises or stitches when we were having so much fun! 😉

    (Didn’t have a Katz Store either though.)

[LeeS4949]

 I have to say you stumped me with that one lol.. I do remember lawn jarts tho.. 😊

[SereneSeagull]

Those Jarts lawn Darts were something!  How in the world?  

[LisaS961881]

    Yup!  What were they thinking?

     We had Jarts, but could only play with those while my Dad was working in the yard, and we were told to not throw them “straight up in the air”…..smart guy!  😉

[LisaS961881]

    Lee, 

        I did wonder if anyone would remember because these were taken off the market in just a couple of months.  While they were loads of fun, placing heavy swinging glass balls in the hands of eleven year olds did not end well. 🥴. I also remember that they later came out with a version that had lighter plastic balls, but that was sort of like playing badminton with a feather duster! 

[LeeS4949]

 lol,love the analogy.. A feather duster wasn't much good for anything other than what it was invented for.. I guess back, especially  in my single digit years, once the danger of something was removed so was most of my interest in it..

[SereneSeagull]

Made me laugh at that, because when the plastic ones came out, we all laughed, and remembered the joy of the dangerous ones.  I loved how you compared them to a feather duster!  That’s about right, too!

[SereneSeagull]

Clackers!  Yes, the glass ones!  That and Jarts Lawn Darts were popular. 

[LisaS961881]

    Gosh yes!  My Junior High banned these in just 3 days.  I had these as well as Jarts,  My best friend shattered her kitchen window with her Clackers …..🥴

[SereneSeagull]

Oh geez, a window!  That’s bad!   Yeah, these were incredible as a kid.  Couldn’t believe how cool they were and such a simple design. Two glass balls on a string.  I remember some kids swirling them around like a lasso!

And Jarts!  So many fun dangerous toys, right? Crazy they had these thingsthinking back now!

[LisaS961881]

    We are heading out to our small town’s annual “Good-bye Summer/Greetings Autumn” Festival. ….and the memory of wrapping up and putting away this item on a shelf in the garage - right around this time of year -   Just popped into my mind.  Geez….over half a century ago that was!   ☀️🏖️🍂

[LeeS4949]

 I cranked one of those things many many miles on those summer days at my grandparents house.. Thank you so much for the wonderful post..

[LisaS961881]

Lee and Gail, am smiling that you both remember doing this! 🍨 

My parents, grandparents, and even the next door neighbors had one of these too!

In recent years, I’ve used the “Coffee can within a can” method, which works on the same principle,   The kids (and adults) still have to earn their ice cream by using their muscles! 💪🏼 😅.
Sitting in pairs about six feet apart and facing each other, hungry participants need to roll the coffee can back and forth about 15 minutes to before they get a taste of the best ice cream in the world!

🙋🩵

[LeeS4949]

 Im a bit embarrassed not to have heard of the coffee can method.. Thank you for the wonderful image.. 

[LisaS961881]

  Lee, 

     A friend shared this technique with me back in the 90s when I had wanted to recreate the experience that I remembered so fondly from my childhood  with a Brownie Troop,, but only had one crank and dozens of tiny hands! 

     Years later, I passed it on to a neighbor during the very tail end of the pandemic.   It really added to the joy of the outdoor birthday party that she had for her 8 year-old daughter.  (Schools had just re-opened, but everyone was still nervous about gathering in groups.)

    If anyone reading this wants to know what I’m jabbering on about 😌, I just checked, and it’s a simple search - “making ice cream with two coffee cans”.

    However you make it, by crank or can, your decades old memories don’t deceive you - store bought is a distant second to this!

    🙋🩵