Yes… the mind of the boy and that of the girl differ when warfare is on the table. My friends and I played ‘Army’ a lot… (it was the mid 1950s). We used realistic looking guns made of wood and metal… and big, hard dirt clods which served as grenades. At age seven I lived next to where they were putting through the Harbor freeway in south-central Los Angeles. All of the houses had either been moved or ‘bulldozed’, It was the perfect battlefield. My step dad was a master at making things out of metal and wood. He once made me a very real-looking full-scale replica of a tripod mounted 50 caliber machine gun. I won many ‘fire-fights’ with it. Can you imagine the calls to law enforcement and the response if kids were playing with one of those on our streets today?
Nice! My brother and I had dirt clod wars too. I also remember finding some metal building brackets in my dad's shop that we used as guns. We also played cars, but I would only play with one particular blue car that I named "Matthew" and I kept trying to play "house" with the car. Funny what we remember now.
Yes… the mind of the boy and that of the girl differ when warfare is on the table. My friends and I played ‘Army’ a lot… (it was the mid 1950s). We used realistic looking guns made of wood and metal… and big, hard dirt clods which served as grenades. At age seven I lived next to where they were putting through the Harbor freeway in south-central Los Angeles. All of the houses had either been moved or ‘bulldozed’, It was the perfect battlefield. My step dad was a master at making things out of metal and wood. He once made me a very real-looking full-scale replica of a tripod mounted 50 caliber machine gun. I won many ‘fire-fights’ with it. Can you imagine the calls to law enforcement and the response if kids were playing with one of those on our streets today?
Nice! My brother and I had dirt clod wars too. I also remember finding some metal building brackets in my dad's shop that we used as guns. We also played cars, but I would only play with one particular blue car that I named "Matthew" and I kept trying to play "house" with the car. Funny what we remember now.