It was all Black & White

[Drew10]

Oh yea...Clackers....Again. WMD by todays standards.

[jayburd]

My mom has mine hanging on the wall at her house....

I had this secret agent briefcase with a hidden camera and a gun in that you fire from a trigger/button on the side.Any of y'all remember that?

[Drew10]

My mom has mine hanging on the wall at her house....

I had this secret agent briefcase with a hidden camera and a gun in that you fire from a trigger/button on the side.Any of y'all remember that?

Ah Yea...Remember it well, I had the same. That goes back to the mid 60's. Man, Im gettin old.

[Ratdog]

How about a toy, that was invented in 1943. It's still going today on an initial $500 investment.

[jayburd]

slinkeys made good habitats for sea monkies

[Ratdog]

slinkeys made good habitats for sea monkies

I remember that. How about the old Jumping Beans.

[Ratdog]

I can't remember this one, but it's fitting for the board, Johnny Express. Anybody have one?

[RebelDarlin]

When we could find ALL the pieces...

And still lots of fun...

[RebelDarlin]

Back to TV shows how about these...

And I still laugh til I'm sick when I see this....

[Drew10]

Ratdog wrote:

I can't remember this one, but it's fitting for the board, Johnny Express. Anybody have one?

I Had one of those....have no Idea what ever became of it. I remember I was able to sit on the trailer and using the remote drive the truck around the house....this must go back to around 1965 or 66.

[wimpy]

To this day when it's on I still watch the Addams Family and The Munsters. Which one do you like better?

[wimpy]

Do they still make red ryder b.b. guns?? I got mine still in the original box!!!!!!!!

[jayburd]

Wimpy.............yes they do!
I was gonna get my grandson one,but decided to let his pa do it.

Here's one from the mid 70's.....remember this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvrxgSFHMBI

[Ratdog]

Wimpy.............yes they do!
I was gonna get my grandson one,but decided to let his pa do it.

Here's one from the mid 70's.....remember this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvrxgSFHMBI

Jay, if your draging out the Jan Micheal Vincent shows, I'm draging out Greg Evigan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AsqKQptTdQ

[jayburd]

Jay, if your draging out the Jan Micheal Vincent shows, I'm draging out Greg Evigan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AsqKQptTdQ

Ratdog.......that's okay by me........what did BJ stand for anyway? :?

[Ratdog]

Jay, if your draging out the Jan Micheal Vincent shows, I'm draging out Greg Evigan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AsqKQptTdQ

Ratdog.......that's okay by me........what did BJ stand for anyway? :?

I think it was Billy Joe McKay. Yeah it was, I had to go back and watch it again. It was on the door. I just remember that BJ McKay and his best friend bear tune.... TV has come a long way!

[jayburd]

I think your correct ratdog.............I bet Michael Jackson watched it just for the Bear....


What's the very first movie about Trucks/Trucking?Truckers you ever saw

I think it was "Red Ball Express" or "They drive by night" for me.... :wink:

[Twilight Flyer]

got the bright idea of using our fishing rods with a small spinner on it to try to catch one. ( Sorry TF ) IT WORKED! Of course being kids we hadn't thought that far ahead........It was total chaos!... After the police left and all the neighbors returned to their homes for the night.........

We would actually shoot at them with our BB Guns. Obviously an absolute luck shot if you got one, but I did get one once...only took about 50,000 shots. Looked like a plane in a flat spin as it came down.

Wasp nest. To a kid these things offered all sorts of fun....up to a point. Too bad no one was keeping records. I'm sure I could lay claim to the state record for bee stings.

Oh boy....bees and wasps. Now this brings back a lot of memories.

Once again, BB Guns came into play here. Did you know that wasps and bees can calculate trajectories of things that crash into their nest, even something as small as a BB shot from a long way away? After my brother got stung (I was the one with the kill shot), I laid off shooting at the nests and instead went to using a playground ball. We would throw the ball up at the nest and the wasps would follow it back down, stinging it all the way.

Let's see...while on that subject:

A dirt clod into a tree hole bees nest will cause the hive to explode into action. Did you know that you can escape multiple bee stings if your brother holds open the door while you run toward it screaming like a girl?

Did you know that a snowball into the same nest will cause the same reaction, despite the cold?

Did you know that bees cannot sting through a thick winter coat and if your face is buried in a snow drift, you'll be OK, other than the frostbite of having to leave your face in the snow until they go back to their nest?

I don't know what it was about bees nests, but in high school, we lived in an old Victorian house that had a bee hive in one of the porch pillars. It was a large hive and we would get bees in the house fairly often.

Did you know that you can hit a bee a long way with a plastic wiffle ball bat? We would actually stand out on the porch with ball bats and play beeball.

Did you know that if you empty 2 cans of Raid into a bee hive in the middle of the night, the bees will not come out of their hive for 3 days, but the hive will make a loud humming sound and when they do finally come out, they are in a bad mood for weeks?

Did you know that bees will eat through wire screen when you use it to plug up their entrances?

Did you know that when bees get inside your shirt, they will be too disoriented to sting you? That is, until you end up in the house and hear them buzzing and take off your shirt, allowing them to get out. Then it's Katie-Bar-The-Door.

Did you know that bees that just came out of a shirt will chase you up and down stairs?

I swear, with all my close encounters (my choice) with bees and wasps, I have never, ever been stung once. I've been bitten by lots of spiders, but never stung. With my luck, I'll be 50 and minding my own business when they'll come for me bearing a long list of past sins of mine.

[Ridge Runner]

It seems we share a common bond.

[Drew10]

TF....Very interesting reading bout your "history" with Bees.

and Ratdog if your bringing up Greg Evigan....Im going back in time even further and bringing up one better. Claude Akins....AKA....Sonny Pruitt the Grand Daddy of Truckers.
Remember the Slogan....."Would Pruitt do it"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gWh5...eature=related