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I was born in 1938,Mom saved the hospital/doctor bill for my birth total $25.00.Woods covered 2 sides of the house my dad built but lost during bad times and unemployment, but he was still able to rent it till 1947 when a new home was bought for $5,000.Today's kids will never know woods where we played and built forts because of the over development on Long Island,or small game hunting in Nassau county in the 40s and early 50s as well as catching any species or amount of fish without a salt water license.The movie house in Oyster Bay had Lucky nite once a week was like bingo and you could win money,the roller skate rink in Mineola was a fun place to go as well as the county fair there,as well as the stock car races in Islip and Freeport.All that is gone progress is sad.JMO
I've just found out that The Jewish Life cable TV Network is rerunning episodes of "The Soupy Sales Show"(The WNEW TV Ch.5 NYC edition from the mid 1960's)and"The New Soupy Sales Show"from the late 1970's.The shows are seen weekday mornings for a half hour at 9:30 P.M. EST and weekday afternoons at 2:30 P.M. I hope that the users of "The Blast From The Past"website will be able to get The Jewish Life Cable TV network on their cable systems and get a chance to laugh again..with kidult tv comedy's loveable looney and his puppet pals.
grew up in the 60's and 70's on li and here's the crazy stuff we'd do.
Let's see, in the there were bb gun fights in the woods though we were smart enough to wear swim goggles.
Bottle rocket wars and roman candle duels in the streets.
Backyard boxing matches.
Going to the town dump, roaming the trash and scavenging for stuff for whatever project we were trying to build. Added bonus was finding old playboys, radios, furniture and other things that would find their way into one of our club houses or forts.
Making our bikes into choppers by cutting the front forks off of one bike and hammering them over the forks of our bikes. Sometimes they'd fall off pitching you over the handle bars.:d
as teens building motorbikes by bolting an old lawn mower engine onto the frame of a stingray. The speed control was usually done by manipulating the throttle with one hand while steering with the other. Brakes were optional.
Building elaborate underground tunnels in the woods and flimsy tree forts on the tops of pine trees.:d
jumping out the windows or off the roof of a split that was under construction into a big pile of sand.
Trying to swim southard pond.
Riding our bikes everywhere.
There was more and somehow we made it through childhood ok if with a few scars.:d
Don't know if it's already been mentioned, but sumps were THE place to be year-round. Riding your bike real fast down one hill, pedaling all out in the center/flat area and racing your bike up the other hill without having a complete collision with the chain link fence was the goal. Crashing into those (when you think about it) hearty trees was fair game. In the winter, the place became a skating rink and I never remember seeing any parents or adults around. If you picked a bad spot and went plunging through the ice, you were more worried about going home and getting spotted by your Mom with the wet pants (more wash for her - not a concern about your general health!). Anyway, you just kept playing or skating. Those pant legs would turn into something the Tin Man would be comfortable in!
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