Was just thinking of some of the games we used to play when we were kids. Ghosts in the Graveyard, Kick the Can, Fumbleena to name a few. What were some of the games you use to play?

Ghosts in the Graveyard: Certain kids were designated to be ghosts and would hide. The remainder would search them out then yell GHOSTS in the GRAVEYARD at which time they would have to run back to the safe spot before the ghosts caught them. Game continued until only 1 person remained not a ghost.

Kick the Can: 1 Person was considered the Warden and had to catch people. If caught he would put them in jail. The only way you could get out of jail is if the free people could kick the can in front of the jail. Game continued until everyone was caught.

Fumbleena: aka Smear the Queer (we weren't politically correct when we were kids) Pretty basic game. Whoever had the ball you chased after and tackled. Game continued until bored or everyone was hurt.

Cowboys & Indians - we'd put wooden matches in pellet guns and fire them at each other - seemed like a good idea at the time :lol:

hide and seek, battle ship, jacks, tag you are it.

one very dangerous word........JARTS!!!
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one very dangerous word........JARTS!!!


Wow, I forgot all about jarts!!!

Four Square and Kickball in the street!:thumb:

We were very lucky as kids with the numbers we had in the neighborhood. We easily could have around 20 kids at a time to play. One game I forgot and really loved was Capture the Flag that we use to play at the College Arboretum. Each team had a fort with a flag. Key was to sneak and get the flag and get back to your fort without been caught.

We all played "Army". We had troops, fought battles, and the best part was that we were outside from dawn to dusk. Not like the kids today (mine included) who sit with their computers, stereos, video games.......I'm on a roll

Four Square and Kickball in the street!:thumb:

Yup, these too.

the best part was that we were outside from dawn to dusk. Not like the kids today (mine included) who sit with their computers, stereos, video games.......I'm on a roll

Us too!!! Parents loved it and so did we :lol:

Heres a couple more:

Red Rover: Two teams. Each team would hold hands creating a link and would Say "Red Rover Red Rover send (Name) over. They would have to try and break the link. If they did not they had to stay on the other team. Game over when one side had all the people.

Redlight/Greenlight: If you don't know this one you're in trouble :lol:

We also played "Kill the guy with the ball". May God have mercy on your soul if you were unlucky enough to have the ball.

I forgot to ask.......anyone miss me over the past week? Went to Florida to visit my sister, warm up a bit, and work on my "Irish Tan".

We also played "Kill the guy with the ball". May God have mercy on your soul if you were unlucky enough to have the ball.

Yup. We all went home with bruises after this game. :lol:

We also played "Kill the guy with the ball". May God have mercy on your soul if you were unlucky enough to have the ball.

May not be PC now (and no offense meant, D), but I learned it as "Smear the Queer".:red:

Fumbleena: aka Smear the Queer (we weren't politically correct when we were kids) Pretty basic game. Whoever had the ball you chased after and tackled. Game continued until bored or everyone was hurt.

Me too Jay :lol:

Doctor with the neighborhood girls. ;) :D

Doctor with the neighborhood girls. ;) :D

:laughabov should have known

Monkey bar fights.:eek:

Monkey bar fights.:eek:

No way. I fell off the Monkey Bars and landed on the rocks (duh, smart idea to put rocks underneath) Had 3 rocks in my knee that had to be removed and stitches. Have a scar to this day!!!

Monkey bar fights.:eek:

Always a good time. Even when you're a drunk teen. :lol:

We all played "Army". We had troops, fought battles, and the best part was that we were outside from dawn to dusk. Not like the kids today (mine included) who sit with their computers, stereos, video games.......I'm on a roll


Amen to that!

No way. I fell off the Monkey Bars and landed on the rocks

Monkey Bars on the Rocks, is that made with whiskey, or vodka?:lol:

How about Marbles. I still got a big bag full that I won.

How about Marbles. I still got a big bag full that I won.

Another good one. I no longer have any of my marbles :bye:

Monkey bar fights.:eek:

Is that anything like Irish Pub fights?? :lol:

I had several childhood games growing up:

Age

0-2: "Wet the Diaper" Practice seeing how many times you can soak a new diaper in one day.

2-4: "Ooopsie Poopsie" (variation on game above - I was a slow learner)

4-12: any drinking game

12-16: "Learn to Drive" Steal a car and try to drive it across town and back without hitting anything or getting caught. (Sometimes we won!)

16-20: "Card Me" - Try to buy alcohol, and actually get away with it.

Those are some of the ones I remember anyway....:lol:

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My brother and I had two "Guns of Navarone" Army Mountains and we would set them up on either side of the room and then set up all 500 Army guys around the mountain. Our "ammo" was a roll of pennies each. We threw the pennies at each other's moutain and the last man standing one.

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Now this guy was a lot of fun, Not only did he ride a motorcycle, but we used to tie a parachute to him and throw him off the roof!!!

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Now this guy could really stretch, but we did eventually find his breaking point and he is filled with some really gross goo.....

I used to play most of those outdoor games. We were fortunate to have a large yard, an acre of cut field behind us, and six acres of woods behind that. With 5 kids in our family and few others in the neighborhood, we mostly played "3 grounders and a fly". I can't even remember the rules but we had fun. We also played Kick the Can, Hide and Seek, HORSE with the basketball.

GDZHHR, I forgot all about Jarts. That game was so much easier than horseshoes and we never sent anyone to the hospital! We also loved to catch lightning bugs after dark. We can't do that down here. There are no lightning bugs and the other bugs will eat you alive after dark!

We also loved to catch lightning bugs after dark. We can't do that down here. There are no lightning bugs and the other bugs will eat you alive after dark!

But did you smear them on your skin so you would glow :thumb:

Absolutely! They would die in the jar overnight anyway!

Couple of teenage games: Spin the Bottle and 7 minutes in Heaven

Spin the Bottle I think everyone knows. 7 minutes in Heaven you were sent in the closet with someone to spend the time doing whatever. I really never liked any of these games since they involved girls :D

I tended to be a loner.
Klick-klacks, hulla-hops, marbles, yo-yo- Wheelo, skates, wagon, big wheel.
Tree house/fort.
Local bicycle MX track....
I dident play with Barbie dolls. I would bend their limps in unnatural postions and rip their heads off. The neighbood girls dident let me near their toys.
I made the wooden car kits my Dad would buy me and play with them in the dirt!
Teather-ball, hop-scotch, dodge-ball.

Kids in the neighborhood would play "butts up".

I really miss the days of playing Canasta with my Grandma. Cards in general. Little did I know back then that Granny was helping me learn math by playing cards and dice games.
Yatazee, Kizmit and other dice games.

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I tended to be a loner.


And you still turned out to be a social butterfly :thumb:

I tended to be a loner.

Loner? Seems the math is better than the spelling..... loaner!

Loner? Seems the math is better than the spelling..... loaner!

You had it right the first time. Unless you were a loan shark :D

Loan shark, it's still a math thing!

Couple of teenage games: Spin the Bottle and 7 minutes in Heaven

Spin the Bottle I think everyone knows. 7 minutes in Heaven you were sent in the closet with someone to spend the time doing whatever. I really never liked any of these games since they involved girls :D

Even better truth or dare. I have several other good teenage games but they are either inappropriate or might give any teens reading the site bad ideas. :lol:

I think outdoor games, like oldies used to play, are more fun to play than Computer Games that children are making fond of these days. They missed a lot of these...:nuts:

I used to skateboard and bike a lot plus hang out with friends but I still found time for video games. I learned a lot of valuable life lessons from video games.
Just remeber.......
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But do you remember the Pac Man cartoon?!?

But do you remember the Pac Man cartoon?!?

Of course. :lol: I used to watch it. :nuts: I have seen ever video game related tie in. Even some of the stuff I'm not proud of seeing like the live action Mario Brothers film. :barf: I hated the cartoon for adding Sue. It wasn't right. :lol:

I played most of those games :smile: Along with baseball and football at the neighborhood playground :roll: I also used to build car and airplane models. After getting tired of looking at them, we would either set them on fire or load them up with firecrackers and blow them up :guns: :D

I also used to build car and airplane models. After getting tired of looking at them, we would either set them on fire or load them up with firecrackers and blow them up :guns::D

Bottle rockets worked great!! Also used them for target practice with BB gun.:guns:

We had a ton of kids in our neighboorhood, so we always played sports, rode bikes, then mimi-bikes, and Army was played with BB guns...okay as you can imagine we were not a group who wore helmets when we rode our bikes either !!! By 13 more and more of my time was spent working on cars and playing organized sports...chasing girls is considered an organized sport right???

when i was younger, i played most these games too and im on 15. ive played kickball, smear the queer, freeze tag, marbles, jacks, etc. i know and played more than half these games yall played back then.

Not all games but how about hopscotch, jumping rope both single and double dutch, handball, dodge ball (Ouch) and jumping on a Pogo stick
I think as children we learned to entertain ourselves...todays children need to be entertained ...IMO

I played most of those games :smile: Along with baseball and football at the neighborhood playground :roll: I also used to build car and airplane models. After getting tired of looking at them, we would either set them on fire or load them up with firecrackers and blow them up :guns: :D

Wow we lived remarkably similar childhoods :lol: . I used to take my old model cars and, with a lighter, would heat the plastic up just to the point I could create dents, and would turn them into demolition derby smashed up cars. And no my parents had no idea what I was doing :lol: . Firecrackers and bottle rockets also were lots of fun with model cars, planes and ships.

I forgot one. We too played war and used persimmons for ammo. What else were they good for? When they were ripe, they left a nasty mess on your clothes. Unripe ones left quite a bruise1

I think we all spent a lot more time outdoors because A/C was pretty scarce back then and it was often cooler out there. My parents didn't install it until all five of us kids moved out.

Most of all, it sounds like we were from much larger families than what's typical today. I couldn't imagine what I would have done on a rainy day if I didn't have my siblings to play with and harrass. It was all good!

Most of all, it sounds like we were from much larger families than what's typical today. I couldn't imagine what I would have done on a rainy day if I didn't have my siblings to play with and harrass. It was all good!

I was an only child. :cool: I had lots of friends though. :lol:

Anybody ever make and use a "beer can bazooka" ???

That was fun....but could have been dangerous!!:eek:

We made tennis ball canons out of about 10 soup cans taped together with a small hole in the bottom for the lighter fluid and match. We could shoot tennis balls clear over the barn and a football field away!!!

We made tennis ball canons out of about 10 soup cans taped together with a small hole in the bottom for the lighter fluid and match. We could shoot tennis balls clear over the barn and a football field away!!!

You got it. That's the same thing. We used Beer cans (they were steel in those days).

Fun, huh.;) :nuts: :nuts: :smile:

You got it. That's the same thing. We used Beer cans (they were steel in those days).

Fun, huh.;) :nuts: :nuts: :smile:

Potatoes are good also. ;) :lol:

When I was a child we played a game call Tag, but the only way you were able to play is if you had a pair of Roller Shates , Yes we played this game in the streets and on Roller skates on the South side of Chicago. It really was safe,

Rudy

Doctor with the neighborhood girls. ;) :D

Yah, you BEAST.... my therapist thanks you KINDLY!!!

My fav game was what I thought was baseball. You go get your next-door neighbor, his bat and ball, and you go up to bat first, since you're "a girl". He pitches really well and you hit every pitch, but you don't run after balls unless they are nearby because you're "a girl". He retrieves for an hour, by which time the truth is starting to dawn on him, then you get bored and go home.

Then you get on your bongo board and watch TV...:nuts:

What's a bongo board? :confused: I don't think we had them when I was a kid. :confused: Be gentle.......remember I was the guy who didn't know what a Chinese fire drill was. :red: :lol:

remember I was the guy who didn't know what a Chinese fire drill was. :red: :lol:

You didn't!?! I bet these would be a blast in a big city like chicago or nyc :lol:

You didn't!?! I bet these would be a blast in a big city like chicago or nyc :lol:

No. :red: It's one of the things I learned through this site. :thumb: I've seen it in movies and stuff but never did it myself or knew what it was called. :lol:

WOW kick the can that brings back memmories!! Got my first and second kiss from the neighbor girls hidden from the warden with them in the bushes!!!LOL

I think its because of my brother that Jarts was banned he liked to chuck them at my friends and I while we ran for cover!!!

BB gun wars (pre paint ball gun fun)

Smear the queer all the time at reccess in grade school!!

MY favorite was bombardment (dodge ball) I loved that game in PE class but some one always got a bloody nose or a bright red patch on the face LOL!!!

Capt.. Howdy (doctor) i could tell you stories of the girl next door who taught me how to play that game!!!!LOL!!!!

MY favorite was bombardment (dodge ball) I loved that game in PE class but some one always got a bloody nose or a bright red patch on the face LOL!!!


In middle school this was always played at lunch break. Hurry up and eat then play dodge ball in the gym.

whats the game where you slap the other persons hands before they move them but if they flinch you got a free whack at them!! that was fun to!!

whats the game where you slap the other persons hands before they move them but if they flinch you got a free whack at them!! that was fun to!!

Reflex?

whats the game where you slap the other persons hands before they move them but if they flinch you got a free whack at them!! that was fun to!!

We called it "red hand" !!:red:

We just called it "Slaps"

We played a variation of the game, only we called it bloody knuckles. You would take turns placing a comb on top of your fist with the handle hanging over your knuckles. The other person would bring his hand up. grab the comb and try to hit your knuckles before you could pull your hand back. If you moved your hand back to early or if the comb falls off, the other player got a free hit. First one to bled is the loser. We always made sure we never had metal combs on the bus :lol: .

We used to play bloody knuckles but it was a whole different game. You and someone else would make a fist and keep punching each others fists at full strength until one of you gave up. Damn that game hurt! :lol:

WOW first time I have read this thread. What is funny we all use to play these same games no matter where we grew up, but will we let are kids play most of these games?
Betting no will be the answer, but why :confused:
We all turned ok didnt we :lol: ok most did :nuts:

:D Played a lot of Stickball and "Stoopball" when I was a kid back on Staten Island. We'd also play Army too (This was back during WW2). We'd dig fox holes and bunkers, and throw dirt clods at each other. They were supposed to be "Hand Grenades" :roll: We'd also play some game with bottle caps on the school playground. Something like shuffle board on a small scale:confused: It was so long ago I don't remember the fine points of it anymore.:( And there was that all time favorite card game "War" we'd sit and play on the front stoop!:nuts:

:D Played a lot of Stickball and "Stoopball" when I was a kid back on Staten Island.
Wiffle ball, half ball and wall ball too in Philly...

What's a bongo board? :confused: I don't think we had them when I was a kid. :confused: Be gentle.......remember I was the guy who didn't know what a Chinese fire drill was. :red: :lol:

Okay!! First you gotta get a goat....and a pair of rubbers for traction... none of that plastic stuff, you need real rubber.


:nuts: http://www.mrassist.com/viewproduct.asp?ID=56675198&categoryID=22 :nuts:

How 'bout THE HAND GAME!!! Anyone play that in the car?

And don't forget my personal favorite...pick a cute guy and follow him, honking and waving, until he starts to follow you...

AND THEN YOU TRY TO LOSE HIM BEFORE HE FOLLOWS YOU TO YOUR HOUSE!!!

This was only done when you were with your best friend, of course.

OMG JARTS!!!! most dangerous game of all time. I still have a set, and play occasionally!

Okay!! First you gotta get a goat....and a pair of rubbers for traction... none of that plastic stuff, you need real rubber.


:nuts: http://www.mrassist.com/viewproduct.asp?ID=56675198&categoryID=22 :nuts:

That looks awesome! :cool: Like a skateboard training device. :lol: I might have to buy one for my daughters and me. :thumb:

Yep, and my old one passed on to my daughters, and they never forgot how... when I gave the one in the link above to my grandson for his birthday, his mom really showed him up!

BTW --- I realized in looking back how gross "the hand game" sounded...

My bro and I used to play it - one in the front and one in the back seat. You put your hands on the seatback and the other person has to start with his hands down low. Then he tries to slap the bejeebers out of it as you try to draw your hand back real fast. I guess the winner is the one who doesn't start crying - LOL. Those were pre-seatbelt, pre-nokidsinthefrontseat, and pre-bucket seat years. These youngsters just don't know how to entertain themselves --- HAHAHAHA.

My step dad used to play the hand game with us he would say one more word and im gonna smack you both so we bein the angles we were would say "WORD" and before we could blink it was slap slap usually across the forehead!!! LOL and he wouldnt even cross the center line or go off the road!!!:lol: :lol: that was the pre DCFS days LOL

How about the old rock, paper, scissors.

I never heard of "rock, paper, scissors" until my boys starting playing it. Although, I die laughing each time I see the Bud Light commercial with the two guys playing it for the last beer. What a riot!

lol, we still play smeer the queer. we used to use walnuts as hand grenades when we played war. when our lawn darts broke we used my dads long wood handle screwdriver. 'course that game became corrupted when we decide that it was more fun to play chicken with the screwdriver. we'd stand 20 or so feet apart and then close our eyes and chuck the screwdriver into the air, closest to the other person without that person moving won. if you got hit the thrower lost.

masive g.i. joe battles with smoke bombs and firecrackers for artillery. suicide on the monkey bars. our version of bloody knuckles was a combo of both your games. we'd play slaps and if you got slapped the other person had a free shot at your knuckles. first person to cry, give up or break a hand lost. man... that was fun!!!! 'course i believe if i were to play any of these games now, i would probably have to pass lol. especially with the oones like eraser burn.

Sometimes I wonder how we survived our childhoods. Now all our kids stay insides where they're safe, watching TV, playing video games, eating to excess, and cruising the internet. LOL!!!

Ok this is more a toy than game, but since someone posted something about GI Joe how about.....

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Toys huh........for me it was The ThunderCats, He-Man, Star Wars, GI Joe (the cool little action figures not the huge boy dolls), Godzilla, and Far Universe Voltron (Lion Voltron). :twothumbs

Toys huh........for me it was The ThunderCats, He-Man, Star Wars, GI Joe (the cool little action figures not the huge boy dolls), Godzilla, and Far Universe Voltron (Lion Voltron). :twothumbs

ThunderCats HOOOOOO!!!!!!

I use to have the Godzilla where you push the button and his fist shot off. Man that was cool!!

Toys huh........for me it was The ThunderCats, He-Man, Star Wars, GI Joe (the cool little action figures not the huge boy dolls), Godzilla, and Far Universe Voltron (Lion Voltron). :twothumbs

Hey I have played star wars with my step boy :red:

ThunderCats HOOOOOO!!!!!!

I use to have the Godzilla where you push the button and his fist shot off. Man that was cool!!

Me too. :bow: He was like 18" - 24" right? :confused: I still have my ThunderCats and surprisingly after all these years Lion-O's eyes still light up when I put the magic ring in his back hole. :red: That didn't sound good. :lol:

two words when it comes to toys......Hot Wheels!!

I was lucky to grow up right when they cam out. I had every one for the first 5-6 years. I even had a chrome/silver Mustang you got when you joined the Hot Wheels club.

A few years ago I sold a bunch of the old car and track set....BIG $$$$

I even had a few of the Hot Wheels jets the "flew" on a string.

Anyone remember SST's? They were toy cars with one large hard rubber wheel with a T-handle you'd pull out.

Anyone remember SST's? They were toy cars with one large hard rubber wheel with a T-handle you'd pull out.

Holly COW I forgot about those. I use to have a few. Wish I still did

STDs? :eek: :confused: :lol: I completly forgot about my Hot Wheels and those stupid rubbery tracks that never worked unlike the cool tracks that kids have today. I had the zipcord cars too but I didn't know what they were called.

Oh yeah....Transformers too. :cool:

How about I Spy? It's been so long, I can't remember how to play.

Musical Chairs...did anyone mention that one?

And ladies, anyone remember Ginny Dolls?

I remember my Dad yelling "Who has my *******.......tools now!!"
I wonder who had them................
me!

Lincoln Logs!!

My uncle taught me this one not a real game but still fun, you go buy some cheap modles put them together no need to worry about decals and all, then you get some fire crackers light them and run the cars into each other :D smash up derby :lol:

Thinking of some members hobbies.....wonder why they didn't mention model trains, Gilbert Erector sets, Gilbert Chemistry sets, Heath Kits, etc. as "toys".

I used to get into model rockets, I think they were estes. Lots of fun building something and then watching it blow up 1000+ feet up!!

Loved Aurora slot cars too! My #43 SuperBird was my fav!

Me too. :bow: He was like 18" - 24" right? :confused: I still have my ThunderCats and surprisingly after all these years Lion-O's eyes still light up when I put the magic ring in his back hole. :red: That didn't sound good. :lol:

I think so! He was kinda tall. He had a lever you pulled and his tongue stuck out like fire?!?

Used to own just about every "Stomper" they made!!

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My wife tells me often about her elementary school playground having one of those geodesic dome-style monkey bar setups ... the kids would gather on it and do their own version of Thunderdome (TWO MEN ENTER, ONE MAN LEAVES!). :rof:

My elementary school memories involve twin pairs of sewer pipe set up side-by-side, which we'd use to play Pipe Tag. "It" was between the pipes, and the goal was to run back and forth between the pipes without getting tagged. (I was a slow kid ... DAMN I hated that game!!) :red:

When I was attending a school for gifted kids, they'd turn simple games of tag into something bizarre ... a personal favorite was "TV Tag," where if you got tagged you would have to yell out the name of a TV show to avoid being It. (yeah, we were weird kids) :banana:

a personal favorite was "TV Tag," where if you got tagged you would have to yell out the name of a TV show to avoid being It. (yeah, we were weird kids) :D

I'd forgotten this one. We played this as well :thumb:

What I find amazing is all the games that disappeared and now are back. Who knew back in the '60s that they'd make a movie about dodgeball. Make next they'll make one with a Red Rover theme!

What I find amazing is all the games that disappeared and now are back. Who knew back in the '60s that they'd make a movie about dodgeball. Make next they'll make one with a Red Rover theme!


I think there is a commercial based on that theme already. Its for Arrid or some thing like that where on football player charges and then others etc. Will have to turn my TV on more often..

we used to build race cars out of what ever we could find and race them down the hill.. almost back in the begining of NASCAR

Used to own just about every "Stomper" they made!!

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OMG!!! I loved my stompers! I had tons of them. the amphibian ones were my favorite. I went through a bunch of stuff at my parents house a year or so ago and found several. my 3 year old son loves them
:thumb:

Slinky

"I see London, I see France..."

Freeze Tag, Hide go seek, stick ball, touch and tackle football. Dodge ball, sledding in winter, building a simple cart for going down hill. cowboy and indians, army.

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:thumb:

One of my favorite toys from the 1960's:

From the 1967 Sears catalog Lost In space Switch N Go .
I still remember it with more than a little nostalgia.


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The last time I payed attention to the selling price of one it was around fifteen hundred dollars in 1996!:eek:

People pay a lot to recapture their youth.

My favorite toys when i was young was G.I Joe and Thunderbirds(puppets 60' tv series). even today i'm still a fan of thunderbirds i got all their dvd box set and watch them sometimes.

Kick the can.

We used to "build" cars with cardboard boxes and race around my buddies yard. Our legs would be the tires. My dad would put designs on them with permanent markers.

We'd also play with Legos, GI Joes, and He-Man. Take them to the park in the nieghborhood and get them filled with sand. :lol:

I also use to build model planes with my dad. Everything to scale. WW2 P51's, B17's, Messerschmitts (sp)... hung them from the ceiling and made a diarama of sorts of a dogfight. Starched cotton for smoke> Dad used a soldering iron to poke holes in them for bullet holes and we'd paint all the effects. It was a big part of my growing up. So much so in fact that they hung there till the day I got married. Then they came with me to Texas and the lovely military's moving company broke most of them. I hope I have son one day so I can do the same with him...

We also used to have fun with refrigerator boxes. When someone in the neighborhood got a new refrigerator, we used to tear the box open so we had a giant piece of cardboard and use it as a slide on a hill.

Hours and hours of Hot Wheels, in the dirt, forget that plastic track. Army, Cowboys and Indians in the woods. Climbing trees, catching frogs. Tag, hide and seek, freeze tag, red light green light stop light. Used to play Rock Paper Scissors and the loser would have to give his wrist up for a good smack with the winners licked fingers. Basketball, baseball, football. We lived in a small neighbourhood in Northern Ontario that didn't even have a corner store. We made our own fun and our folks would have to set traps to get us home for supper. Did a bunch of hunting and fishing too, that was fun! No one got hurt (much)

Jim

The most fun I ever had as a kid in the "neighborhood kiddie gang" stuff was when I lived in this dinky town about 25 minutes north of where I live now called Garber. There was the girl next door, who was more like a guy really (tomboy). We used to go to the ditch and catch snapping turtles, crawdads, and leeches. In the same ditch when it started to dry out, we would have mudfights. And she also had one of the biggest home vegetable gardens I've ever seen. They grew these really hot peppers.. I specifically remember them because I broke one open and ended up getting the stuff in my eye...

There were other kids, too, but I mostly hung out with her :D Good times...