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Re: Games from the 50's
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SWEDE
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Date: January 13, 2016 12:35AM
Sounds great. Was it something like fooze ball except it was operated under the deck?
Re: Games from the 50's
Posted by:
SWEDE
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Date: January 13, 2016 11:48PM
Before we got our Ping Pong table we use to play on our kitchen table.
Re: Games from the 50's
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Anonymous User
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Date: January 14, 2016 07:11AM
SWEDE Wrote:
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> Do you remember the little BB's that were called
> Atomic Pearls. Later in the 50's they started to
> make them rolled in paper balls like a spit ball.
> We would throw them on the floor in school and
> anyone stepping on them would make the pearl
> explode. You could put them in your school books
> and slam the book shut and it would burn a hole
> thru a couple of pages.
I remember those we used to throw them at the ground close to the girls shoes and the little stones in in the paper ball would hit their legs. Cost me five days detention in fifth grade.
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> Do you remember the little BB's that were called
> Atomic Pearls. Later in the 50's they started to
> make them rolled in paper balls like a spit ball.
> We would throw them on the floor in school and
> anyone stepping on them would make the pearl
> explode. You could put them in your school books
> and slam the book shut and it would burn a hole
> thru a couple of pages.
I remember those we used to throw them at the ground close to the girls shoes and the little stones in in the paper ball would hit their legs. Cost me five days detention in fifth grade.
Re: Games from the 50's
Posted by:
SWEDE
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Date: January 15, 2016 10:10PM
Do you remember the Mexican Jumping Beans?
Re: Games from the 50's
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SWEDE
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Date: January 17, 2016 11:32PM
This wasn't a game, however, does anyone remember when ball point pens came out in the 50's and it became a fad at school and of course you couldn't resist clicking them during class and the nuns at St Michaels would allow us to bring them to the classroom. I think it interfered with their "CLICKERS" LOL
Re: Games from the 50's
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SWEDE
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Date: January 21, 2016 12:39AM
There has to be more stories about your favorite games.
Around Oakley Playground in the 50's we liked to wrestle each other under the flag pole in front of the park. Mostly against our older brothers or anyone that challenged to a match. I guess we all thought we were "Killer Kowalski" or "Vern Ganja"
Around Oakley Playground in the 50's we liked to wrestle each other under the flag pole in front of the park. Mostly against our older brothers or anyone that challenged to a match. I guess we all thought we were "Killer Kowalski" or "Vern Ganja"
