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To: Poet who wrote (59726)	4/19/2001 10:24:39 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

The interesting thing about most of the stuff on that list is that it wasn't really expensive and yet we got a lot of fun out of it...and I say "we" because my brothers and I played with most of the stuff together. The sand pile used to cost my mom about $25 and that would keep all of us out of trouble for the whole summer. Tree forts were made out of branches and old or scrap lumber that we salvaged when my dad was building stuff. A lot of the flying toys came in cereal boxes back then, or you sent away box tops to get them. The most costly toy I probably had was the Johnny West guy and his horse. When you compare that to kids with Sony Playstations, etc... these days, I don't know how parents can afford this stuff. The other thing that was neat about most of our toys was that almost everything was meant to be played with outside, so we spent hours running around retrieving propellors and rockets and other stuff that was flying around. Very physical and good for us. Your "space trolley" reminds me a little of a TERRIBLE game that we played... devised by a couple of my cousins who lived at a cottage upriver from our place. We had 2 old army surplus hammocks hanging in the pine trees behind our cottage... intended to be a good place to hang out when you wanted to read and enjoy the day. They were great for that. But then my cousins started coming over to our place and playing a game where you would get in the hammock and pull it tightly closed around yourself...like a cocoon... and they would swing the thing like mad or even flip it over...and you'd try not to get thrown out on the ground. BTW, they were a lot older than us and were real hellions.. My parents caught them using the hammocks that way and they got banned from the yard for the rest of the summer. (0: