Yup - This is what I did about 80 years ago
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Feb 17, 2024 00:05:46 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
Ernie1945 wrote:
How about trading cards? Baseball and football cards (5 cards and a piece of gum for 25 cents). Pitching the cards against a wall to see who could get closer and win the toss. I distinctly remember Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Hank Aaron among others being lost in a toss. I cry today when I see how much these cards are going for. The same goes for the 10-cent comic books. A fortune being lost in youth recreation.
Trading cards and comics on the Antiques Roadshow -- very valuable.
Played with by kids --priceless.
Feb 17, 2024 06:26:22 #
Artcameraman
Loc: Springfield NH
Yes, I got a bunch of Baseball playing cards from a friend and my mother threw them out, probably worth $millions$ today.
Feb 17, 2024 14:06:17 #
Feb 17, 2024 14:20:36 #
How about a group of guys playing baseball with no adult supervision until dusk, then talking anxious parents who came looking to park around the field with headlights on so we could finish the game.
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Feb 17, 2024 15:37:45 #
We went out in the morning, came in for lunch and then went back out until dinner, then back out until 9PM (Firehouse beeped twice at 9PM). We missed out on the popsicle.
Feb 17, 2024 21:48:39 #
Those were the Ozzie & Harriet and Leave it to Beaver days. We all had our own Eddie Haskells in our neighborhoods too.
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Feb 19, 2024 07:22:19 #
When I was young I had to be home before the street lights came on. Now I want to be home before they come on.
Feb 19, 2024 07:25:40 #
I remember playing Skellie. I would save bottle caps, melt crayon wax and pour it into the caps. We got tired of drawing chalk lines on the asphalt. We got a hammer and chisel. We carved the board in a driveway. For several years, we had unlimited access. Then after a few years, the city repaved the street. GAME OVER!
Feb 19, 2024 07:33:47 #
Artcameraman
Loc: Springfield NH
My friend "Lefty" and The gang would go to Franklin Park in Boston where lefty would put his right hand in the Lions mouth.
Feb 19, 2024 07:42:02 #
For photography, I recorded a fire damage in my school in 1962, failed to develop a 35mm B&W in 1964. In 1974 graduated a photography school, and learned how to print COLOR photos. I still have most of negative film that I can make print again. But I wondered, next 10 years, what I have photographed past 25 years without silver but electron transfer technology.
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