Toys from the past...They wouldn't let you have now :eek

[henzilla]

Probably a good thing these were not Walmart available back in the day.Not sure if they still are.

When they first were mass marketed, many issues with local pets and wildlife having darts protruding from them.

 

[rudyinla]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXhddUqNNjo

 

[ahd43]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXhddUqNNjo

+1

 

[lee]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXhddUqNNjo

+1

 

[David13]

+1

+1 +1

dc

 

[Omega Man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXhddUqNNjo

Kids can't do those things anymore 'Splains a number of things-

OM

 

[flymymbz]

Remember riding in the bed of the pick-up?

Surprisingly enough, Washington state has not gone total nanny yet, and we can still let kids ride in the back of pick up truck. There is something about seat belts though.

 

[36654]

we can still let kids ride in the back of pick up truck

You might want to check that, before doing it....

 

[Anyname]

Surprisingly enough, Washington state has not gone total nanny yet, and we can still let kids ride in the back of pick up truck. There is something about seat belts though.

I once saw a guy fall out of the back of a pickup truck. It didn't look like an experience i'd want to emulate.

 

[26667]

Anybody else play with road flares?

...once

 

[Omega Man]

Being young was a great time, it sounds like for all of us. However, I do believe we grew up in the best of times and I really wouldn't want to go back to being young as the way things are now. Just not the same world at all.

I was thinking that this thread has been sitting deep in the background for some time.
I thought a quote from the late ShortyThorne was a good reintroduction.
OM

 

[tsconver]

Honda Three Wheelers

 

[Omega Man]

Honda Three Wheelers

I had a Big Red! Unbelievably powerful and amazingly tippy.
OM

 

[CaptCF]

Honda Three Wheelers

We used one to tow each other around the fields on an old plastic sled with a waterski rope. Once you knocked the other guy off the sled you switched places.

 

[skibum69]

 

[CaptCF]

lol...who can forget running like hell with your hands covering your head and NOT looking up while running away from those..

 

[kbasa]

My brother and I used to throw them over our two story house to each other.

There are a lot of things I had as a kid that I wouldn't want a kid to have today. The carbon tetrachloride in my butterfly collecting kit, for example. Or the stuff in my chemistry set. Or the DDT we kept in the garage.

Some of those things are no longer available and that's probably all for the better.

 

[skibum69]

I never did get to play with these but there is an old stray one decorating my shed!

 

[pauls1150]

Up on the roof or stuck in the wall?

 

[elvis]

Ever step on a loose "Jack" barefooted? You only do it once.