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is there a funnier movie to bring back childhood
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memories than SANDLOT? neighborhood kids playing sandlot baseball, junk yard dogs, and fake drowning to get the lifeguard WENDY PEPPERCORN to do CPR on you. bwahahahahahahahahahhahahahah CMT channel now
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High do it for me. I was born old.
he said childhood, not puberty [:D]
As a 'city kid' growing up (1960s), we played baseball from morning until dinner and from dinner until the street lights came on (a time when everyone had to be headed home). Often we arrived en-mass at some poor mom's house for sandwiches and Kool-aid. More often than not we drank out of a convenient garden hose.
We didn't have a tree house but we had 'club houses' in various garages and a rail road tie fort in one backyard.
Baseball card trading and the expendable cards in the spokes of our bikes to make noise. Great times.
Edit: added: Brookwood reminded me that we often played short handed. When that happened we evenly divided the number of players and you had to call your field when at bat since the outfield was usually sparse. We often also played 'curb-ball' where the batter threw the ball against the curb, bouncing it across the street. Various objects at different distances were base hits or a home run (opposite curb, side walk, etc.)
Trinity +++
"The Goonies" always did it for me. I grew up on an island and we used to go exploring the caves and caverns.
+1 for goonies.
Goonies never say die!
"Toy Story". I think I had almost every one of those toys at one time or another. [:D]
How young are you?
quote:Originally posted by Spider7115
"Toy Story". I think I had almost every one of those toys at one time or another. [:D]
How young are you?
[:)] I can only relate to spider about the toys from Toy Story.
I bought most of those toys for my two younger kids and the older two sons got Star Wars toys ca. 1978. He Man toys were also the rage back in the late 70's and I bought my share of them as well.
About all we actually had when I was a youngster was mostly Disney stuff like The Adventures of Spin and Marty
But to watch Rusty and his trusty dog Rin Tin Tin would remind me of those days.
when we didn't play ball it was playing army. many a wooden fruit crates sacrificed its well being into making machine guns resembling strangely that grease gun of WW2 fame. hedge apples, pears even real apples were hand grenades.
mom or Dad knew where to find all of us if needed......most of the time....we did have a double secret hangout where we snuck off to to smoke catalpa beans, or grapevines. but that wasn't very often
speaking of grapevines, always had a place we played Tarzan and swung out over the creek using the vines. we didn't think far enough ahead to hang us a rope, no we rode that dead vine for all it was worth before it came crashing down.
life was simpler then, we didn't have that many play dates because we all were farmer families at home, but when we could we made the most of our days together being typical kids-as we best could do.
I don't know if anyone played the game we called "Work-Up"
where everyone played a position until an out was made. Then you advanced to the next position leading up to bat.
You started out in left field. Moved to center, then right field, then to third base. 2nd, 1st, pitcher, catcher, batter.
This rotation also helped make your skills either improve or at least showed you where you were strongest suited.
Those were definitely the good ole days!