Yesterday, a friend of mine from work had a pack of JUMBO Smarties, and it got me thinking.
I remembered back when I was 6, how a packet of Smarties was the ultimate power pellet for
Batman, Robin, Superman, Spiderman and a host of other superheros. No bad guy stood a chance as long as we had Smarties, and if it was haloween, the bad guys might as well take a vacation as there was an unlimited supply of power pellets.
This was at a time when you didn't have to wory about somebody tampering with candy.
Ours was allways the most popular house in the neighborhood because my mother would make popcorn balls and fudge to hand out. Parents would send their kids back out to our house just for the real goodies.
The 1960's were a very cool time to be a little kid.
There were only 3 channels on television, and if the President was on, television was shot that night so you went to your friends house or they came to yours, for hide and seek or kick the can.
I remember my older brother teaching me to ride a two wheeler and suddenly the world got bigger. Now I could ride around the block.
School was a block and a half away, so we were allways able to get to the swings, monkey bars and merry-go-round within a few minuites.
In the winter, the first thing we did when we got up was to look out the bedroom window to see how much snow we had.
There were snowmen, snowball fights, and sledding to be done. If the weather was to bad, we got out the crayons(we had the big box), and coloring books or scrap paper.
We also had tinker toys and lincoln logs to build forts, pyramids, and any number of things we could imagine.
Captain Kangaroo was everybodys friend, and Flipper and Lassie allways saved the day unless the president was on.
We have come a long way since then, but it is allways cool to remember we were part of that time.
May the supply of power pellets never run out
posted by drd319 at 7:21 AM
2 Comments:
That's awesome... Those are the kinds of things I remember growing up too, though the details were different. We didn't have cable that I can recall and apart from Saturday morning, I don't think TV was a big part of the possible activities. Besides a book, a bike is a boy's best friend.
This kid down the road had a tree fort, and I remember hanging out there and eating grapes and parsley from his mom's garden. Many adventures on bikes launched and landed from that tree. A tree is the best jungle gym you can find... and it's all-natural ;)
I remember having to clean the house on Saturday morning. My dad, the enforcer, would supervise. My mom would be at work. She worked for a restaurant at that time. But the thing I would remember most was eating tuna fish sandwiches and watching Sky King at high noon after we were done cleaning.
Of course, all the neighborhood kids would hang out together. Long bike rides, kick the can, baseball, forts in the weeds, mudpies with the seeds off those weeds that you could strip the seeds off of, climbing on top of the swing-set, playing canasta at the neighbors house. In fact most of my memories were of things I did with my friends outside and not much about the house I lived in at that time.
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