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geofflambert -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/5/2014 11:12:44 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns


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ORIGINAL: mullk

Boy I remember all these shows with fondness. I also remember playing with the G.I. Joe dolls errr I mean action figures with the kid across the street. His parents had set him up a sand box just for playing with the figures.


I was never into GI Joe much, but my brother and I each used to get one of these sets every Christmas. Man we had some epic struggles in the back yard with our little green army men armies lol.

Jim

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I had about a company of these little Japanese WWII soldiers in various poses. I took one end of a tin pencil lead holder (looked like a Contac capsule but larger) and made a stand to hold it out of a paper clip. I made a number of these assemblies. Then I loaded them with match heads and wadded up some aluminum foil to make the projectiles. Sometime I used a big one or other times a number of smaller ones like cannister. I lined up the Japanese troops like they were assaulting and set up my battery facing them. All I had to do was hold a lit match under my tin cannons and they would fire. The soldiers would melt and the aluminum balls would melt into them. Maybe I would've made a good General LeMay.



geofflambert -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/5/2014 11:15:04 PM)


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ORIGINAL: crsutton

I made these 50 years ago with my big brother's lead casting set. The set was his father's (half brother) and dated back to the 1930s. It still works today.

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I hope you didn't stick your fingers in your mouth after handling those. Antimony, another great thing to make toys out of that kids will suck on.



rustysi -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/5/2014 11:38:23 PM)

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ORIGINAL: geofflambert


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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns


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ORIGINAL: mullk

Boy I remember all these shows with fondness. I also remember playing with the G.I. Joe dolls errr I mean action figures with the kid across the street. His parents had set him up a sand box just for playing with the figures.


I was never into GI Joe much, but my brother and I each used to get one of these sets every Christmas. Man we had some epic struggles in the back yard with our little green army men armies lol.

Jim

[image]local://upfiles/5815/559D44734F6244AC9FBFCC63D179FA14.jpg[/image]



I had about a company of these little Japanese WWII soldiers in various poses. I took one end of a tin pencil lead holder (looked like a Contac capsule but larger) and made a stand to hold it out of a paper clip. I made a number of these assemblies. Then I loaded them with match heads and wadded up some aluminum foil to make the projectiles. Sometime I used a big one or other times a number of smaller ones like cannister. I lined up the Japanese troops like they were assaulting and set up my battery facing them. All I had to do was hold a lit match under my tin cannons and they would fire. The soldiers would melt and the aluminum balls would melt into them. Maybe I would've made a good General LeMay.


Ah yes, misspent youth.[:'(]



crsutton -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/6/2014 2:56:16 AM)


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ORIGINAL: geofflambert


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ORIGINAL: crsutton

I made these 50 years ago with my big brother's lead casting set. The set was his father's (half brother) and dated back to the 1930s. It still works today.

[image]local://upfiles/8095/275390D9EA2C45B0855216A44A34966A.jpg[/image]


I hope you didn't stick your fingers in your mouth after handling those. Antimony, another great thing to make toys out of that kids will suck on.


Me think no lead bad in head but maybe all fuzzy, who knos?



Chickenboy -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/6/2014 3:56:24 AM)


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ORIGINAL: geofflambert


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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns


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ORIGINAL: mullk

Boy I remember all these shows with fondness. I also remember playing with the G.I. Joe dolls errr I mean action figures with the kid across the street. His parents had set him up a sand box just for playing with the figures.


I was never into GI Joe much, but my brother and I each used to get one of these sets every Christmas. Man we had some epic struggles in the back yard with our little green army men armies lol.

Jim

[image]local://upfiles/5815/559D44734F6244AC9FBFCC63D179FA14.jpg[/image]



I had about a company of these little Japanese WWII soldiers in various poses. I took one end of a tin pencil lead holder (looked like a Contac capsule but larger) and made a stand to hold it out of a paper clip. I made a number of these assemblies. Then I loaded them with match heads and wadded up some aluminum foil to make the projectiles. Sometime I used a big one or other times a number of smaller ones like cannister. I lined up the Japanese troops like they were assaulting and set up my battery facing them. All I had to do was hold a lit match under my tin cannons and they would fire. The soldiers would melt and the aluminum balls would melt into them. Maybe I would've made a good General LeMay.


Seems awfully complicated when a spray can of paint (or hairspray) and a lighter would have emulated the 'corkscrew and blowtorch' approach to cave warfare admirably. Not that I know, of course.



Barb -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/6/2014 6:22:02 AM)

... used New-Year firework petards (the one doing "Booom") imitating artillery effect on troops ...
... used the same to blow holes into several model ships (actually re-used empty cigarette packages, held together with paper, adhesive tape and glue) ... their survival was tested after battle on whatever "pond" was around... [sm=00000622.gif]



Barb -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/6/2014 6:22:34 AM)

omg.. double post



obvert -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/6/2014 7:24:12 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Barb

... used New-Year firework petards (the one doing "Booom") imitating artillery effect on troops ...
... used the same to blow holes into several model ships (actually re-used empty cigarette packages, held together with paper, adhesive tape and glue) ... their survival was tested after battle on whatever "pond" was around... [sm=00000622.gif]


+1

I burned, blew up and shot holes with my air rifle through all of my Tamiya waterline models by about age 14. Fun, but a bit smelly.

Still had Hogan's Hero's reruns and Baa Baa Blacksheep on reruns when I was a kid. Watched them on Saturdays.


MASH was on nightly on the weekdays, so saw all of that.

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wdolson -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/6/2014 7:41:38 AM)

I built a lot of models when I was a kid. In a fit of kid destructiveness a friend and I destroyed most of what I had built to that point in one afternoon. Once the dust cleared I immediately regretted it and never did anything like that again. I still have all the models I built after that point, but quite a few are sort of a jumble in a box. They were rather primitive efforts.

I watched all of Baa Baa Black Sheep when it was new, I spotted a lot of the inaccuracies. Later on I tutored for a while in the common room of the dorms in college (I lived off campus) and people always had the Black Sheep reruns on in the next room. When I wasn't busy tutoring, I listened to the show and tried to identify the episode.

Bill



CaptBeefheart -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/6/2014 8:41:40 AM)

I ran into Robert Conrad and some of the other "pilots" in uniform on my 7th grade field trip to Universal Studios (they were out and about--maybe returning to the "Baa Baa Black Sheep" set from the cafeteria). I was taller than Conrad even then. Then I met the real Pappy at Oshkosh in 1980 or so.

Cheers,
CC



geofflambert -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/6/2014 4:52:46 PM)

I glued together an He-162 model. Don't tell anyone, but I mounted the wings backward with the straight edge to the rear.



Big B -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/6/2014 9:27:12 PM)

Loved that show - used to stay up to watch it all the time.

I just saw Richard Boone in Rio Conchos the other day (first time since it came out decades ago) - he was good.

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How about

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rustysi -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/6/2014 10:14:21 PM)

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I built a lot of models when I was a kid. In a fit of kid destructiveness a friend and I destroyed most of what I had built to that point in one afternoon. Once the dust cleared I immediately regretted it and never did anything like that again. I still have all the models I built after that point, but quite a few are sort of a jumble in a box. They were rather primitive efforts.


And I thought it was just me. Difference was none of mine survived.[:)]



rockmedic109 -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/7/2014 1:15:00 AM)


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ORIGINAL: rustysi

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I built a lot of models when I was a kid. In a fit of kid destructiveness a friend and I destroyed most of what I had built to that point in one afternoon. Once the dust cleared I immediately regretted it and never did anything like that again. I still have all the models I built after that point, but quite a few are sort of a jumble in a box. They were rather primitive efforts.


And I thought it was just me. Difference was none of mine survived.[:)]

I did it as well.

I also built two identical car kits. I melted one into a resemblance of a wrecked car and put them both in my fathers' Body Shop as a "Before and After" show for customers coming in.



oldman45 -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/7/2014 2:59:47 PM)

I built the motorized Hood, lindberg model, pushed it out into the lake and realized I didn't do a good job on the shaft seals .....



Schanilec -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/7/2014 3:26:27 PM)

Let's not forget one of my big faves growing up....'The Beverly Hillbillies'.

And I'm going to make another turn here. The good olde drive-in movie theaters. Always great fun. The dusk to dawn nights. The lot.
There is still one operating about 40 miles northeast of here in Warren, Minnesota.



sventhebold -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/7/2014 4:20:53 PM)

Yup I think i was there forever and ago since i had relatives outside Donaldson i used to stay with.



Eambar -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/7/2014 4:26:59 PM)

When I was growing up Hogan's Heroes was one of my favourites. However, on the tv before HH was Gilligan's Island, and the Ginger vs Mary-Anne debate was one that I have never really solved.

After HH was Lost in Space, another favourite, so it was a great 2 hrs of TV!




Big B -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/7/2014 4:34:40 PM)

Oh, Mary-Anne [:D]


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ORIGINAL: Doggie3
... However, on the tv before HH was Gilligan's Island, and the Ginger vs Mary-Anne debate was one that I have never really solved.





Lecivius -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/7/2014 5:44:49 PM)

Mary Anne, or Jeannie?


JEANNIE!!



geofflambert -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/7/2014 5:53:33 PM)


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ORIGINAL: rockmedic109


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ORIGINAL: rustysi

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I built a lot of models when I was a kid. In a fit of kid destructiveness a friend and I destroyed most of what I had built to that point in one afternoon. Once the dust cleared I immediately regretted it and never did anything like that again. I still have all the models I built after that point, but quite a few are sort of a jumble in a box. They were rather primitive efforts.


And I thought it was just me. Difference was none of mine survived.[:)]

I did it as well.

I also built two identical car kits. I melted one into a resemblance of a wrecked car and put them both in my fathers' Body Shop as a "Before and After" show for customers coming in.


But which was the "before" and which was the "after"? [:D]



geofflambert -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/7/2014 5:55:22 PM)


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ORIGINAL: oldman45

I built the motorized Hood, lindberg model, pushed it out into the lake and realized I didn't do a good job on the shaft seals .....


A close friend did that with a Mogami half carrier version. It went straight out and then capsized in the middle of a pond. Guess he didn't ballast it properly. [:-]



geofflambert -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/7/2014 5:58:44 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Schanilec

Let's not forget one of my big faves growing up....'The Beverly Hillbillies'.

And I'm going to make another turn here. The good olde drive-in movie theaters. Always great fun. The dusk to dawn nights. The lot.
There is still one operating about 40 miles northeast of here in Warren, Minnesota.


I liked the x-rated ones that you could see from outside the park. [:D] Didn't even need binoculars. The '60s and '70s were a lot different.



geofflambert -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/7/2014 6:04:29 PM)

I was at one drive in that had three screens you could see from anywhere in it. Two screens were G-rated and one was X-rated. There were little kids there. "Mommie, what are those people doing?" [&:] "Just watch Mary Poppins and keep quiet"[:-] Every parking spot had three of those speakers you could hang on the door so you could listen to whichever one you wanted. [&o]



98ZJUSMC -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/8/2014 11:37:56 PM)


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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Here's the best show of all time :

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No argument here. Green Acres was the best. Got to watch it in re-runs in College in the 80's and it's still hilarious.



98ZJUSMC -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/8/2014 11:39:57 PM)


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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

The '60s and '70s were a lot different.


The best time to be little kid.



98ZJUSMC -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/8/2014 11:43:28 PM)

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

I know that I am taking this to a whole other level, but what the heck? I still get a little warm when I see an old photo of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. I preferred to watch this show alone, without my pants around...


....and here I thought I was the only one! [:D]



Footslogger -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/9/2014 12:30:14 AM)


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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I was at one drive in that had three screens you could see from anywhere in it. Two screens were G-rated and one was X-rated. There were little kids there. "Mommie, what are those people doing?" [&:] "Just watch Mary Poppins and keep quiet"[:-] Every parking spot had three of those speakers you could hang on the door so you could listen to whichever one you wanted. [&o]


I remember watching "Star Wars" at a drive in with hundreds of mosquitos biting when I was just a runt. I think I feel asleep during the movie.

Did anyone remember to mention, "I Want My MTV!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGZSWdh17l0



geofflambert -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/9/2014 1:30:27 AM)

Do you remember Tom and Jerry at the Symphony? Beethoven's Lenore Overture # 3 was playing.

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geofflambert -> RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up (8/9/2014 1:39:04 AM)

Here we separate the boys from the younger boys. Who was old enough to see this:

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