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[MAD]

I think that we played something like Ghosts in the Graveyard but called it Ain't No Boogies Out Tonight. "It" would hide, everybody else circled the house chanting "Ain't No Boogies Out Tonight", then "It" would bust out of hiding and tag as many people as possible before they made it "home" while all heck broke loose. Then in the next round everybody tagged before getting "home" joined "It". First person tagged by "It" was "It" in the next game. The winner was the last kid tagged.

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My favorite was playing shark at the pool

 

[Vjcvette]

Walking the dog was easy. Rock the cradle took a bit of practice. Around the World was challenging, but not too hard if you had Walking the Dog down.

The Dog was much easier with a butterfly yo-yo. It was harder to keep the standard yo-yo balanced. One of the "standard" Duncans might have been called the "Emperial". There was also a lighter weight "standard".

I think there is another called tightrope or something similar. I could never do that one, even poorly.

I also had a pair of Clackers from that time. They melted in a house fire.

Hey I had forgotten about "Around the World", but that was great, I used to try to walk the dog and I had some clackers but those things could kill you if you did not watch it....lol

 

[Vjcvette]

saw some lightning bugs tonight and thought about this from when I was a kid

LoL, that is Great!!

 

[Vjcvette]

I never could get the Hula Hoop to work. Not a lot of success getting the Slinky to travel down the whole set of stairs either. But I pretty much kept track of the Super Balls and the Silly Putty worked well. Play-do dried out quickly and didn't taste very good. The next door neighbors had Creepy Crawlers. We played a lot of Frisbee Tag and Ain't No Boogies Out Tonight. Hide and Go Seek in the Dark was fun.

I had all of these, Hula Hoop, Slinky,Super Balls, Silly Putty, Play-do and Creepy Crawlers, and now days they would never have something like Creepy Crawlers for a child, I mean the thing would heat up hot enough to cook
plastic and your room would always smell like that lol.

 

[Vjcvette]

I Love watching old commercials like that about anything, cars or whatever

 

[Vjcvette]

My favorite was playing shark at the pool

The bad game was throwing dirt clods at each other because being hit in the face was not good..lol

 

[Wireless1]

I had a good sized box of little green army men. I don't know if it's still at my parent's house or not. Haven't seen it for years.

We used to build models and then blow them up with firecrackers purchased at Dixie Lee Fireworks. Squirt lighter fluid on what was left and fire it up with Zippo lighters (had to have Zippos for the fireworks, but it took a lot of convincing to get the parents to allow having them).

We would build model airplanes and "glide" them 50 -75' down a fishing line from the upstairs window to land on the concrete walkway. Then we decided to set the model on fire for "emergency" landings... burned through the mono-filament and crashed from about 25'... good times, wonder what crimes kids doing that today would be charged with, or how much grief my parents would endure from "Karens?"

 

[Vjcvette]

We would build model airplanes and "glide" them 50 -75' down a fishing line from the upstairs window to land on the concrete walkway. Then we decided to set the model on fire for "emergency" landings... burned through the mono-filament and crashed from about 25'... good times, wonder what crimes kids doing that today would be charged with, or how much grief my parents would endure from "Karens?"

That is Great!!!

 

[Vjcvette]

Man a lot of good memories. You forgot about the Mexican jumping beans, I never had em. Oh did you have those little plastic green soldiers?

How about GI Joe's, I had Barbie, but I did not have Ken, I had a GI Joe and that is who my Barbie dated lol

 

[Go aeiou]

I had a good sized box of little green army men. I don't know if it's still at my parent's house or not. Haven't seen it for years.

We used to build models and then blow them up with firecrackers purchased at Dixie Lee Fireworks. Squirt lighter fluid on what was left and fire it up with Zippo lighters (had to have Zippos for the fireworks, but it took a lot of convincing to get the parents to allow having them).

Dixie Lee junction? Exactly where is it? Was it named after Bing Crosby's wife?

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Dixie Lee junction? Exactly where is it? Was it named after Bing Crosby's wife?

Dixie Lee Junction is where Kingston Pike (11/70) splits into Highway 70 and Highway 11 slightly west of Knoxville. The fireworks store would have been just outside of the Knox County/Loudon County line. So maybe around Watt Road. Not far from the Dixie Lee Drive-In Theater which played X-rated movies in the 1970s that, thankfully, didn't feature Dixie Lee.

 

[Wireless1]

Dixie Lee Junction is where Kingston Pike (11/70) splits into Highway 70 and Highway 11 slightly west of Knoxville. The fireworks store would have been just outside of the Knox County/Loudon County line. So maybe around Watt Road. Not far from the Dixie Lee Drive-In Theater which played X-rated movies in the 1970s that, thankfully, didn't feature Dixie Lee.

Minor correction, The Dixie Highway is US 41, the Lee Highway is US 11. That stretch of pavement is also US 70 but the junction was named for the Dixie and Lee Highways.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Minor correction, The Dixie Highway is US 41, the Lee Highway is US 11. That stretch of pavement is also US 70 but the junction was named for the Dixie and Lee Highways.

That's kind of like 11-70 being called Kingston Pike. Only one of them goes to Kingston.

 

[Go aeiou]

Minor correction, The Dixie Highway is US 41, the Lee Highway is US 11. That stretch of pavement is also US 70 but the junction was named for the Dixie and Lee Highways.

Dixie Lee Junction is where Kingston Pike (11/70) splits into Highway 70 and Highway 11 slightly west of Knoxville. The fireworks store would have been just outside of the Knox County/Loudon County line. So maybe around Watt Road. Not far from the Dixie Lee Drive-In Theater which played X-rated movies in the 1970s that, thankfully, didn't feature Dixie Lee.

Ha, We used to go through there from Oak Ridge to Dalton to see my Grandmother. That was late 50s, early sixties.
I couldn't remember exactly where it was. Oddly I moved right down the road from there for about 6 years in Avalon in 2005.

 

[Vjcvette]

Remember This...........

 

[Vjcvette]

We played butts up Bearden Jr High, that was serious business

I have to admit that I do not know that game..."Butts Up"

 

[Vjcvette]

I think that we played something like Ghosts in the Graveyard but called it Ain't No Boogies Out Tonight. "It" would hide, everybody else circled the house chanting "Ain't No Boogies Out Tonight", then "It" would bust out of hiding and tag as many people as possible before they made it "home" while all heck broke loose. Then in the next round everybody tagged before getting "home" joined "It". First person tagged by "It" was "It" in the next game. The winner was the last kid tagged.

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LoL, that is such a funny story.....

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Remember This...........

The Aquarium Car. I had one for a day while my car was worked on by the dealer. Smoke started pouring out of the heater vents before even getting it off of the lot. A friend had one a few years after that. They ultimately ended up just abandoning it on the side of the road when it broke down.

Pacers had longer passenger side doors than driver's side.

My favorite car introduced in the 70s that advertised a wider interior was the Triumph TR-7. Wider than a Corvette inside. Unfortunately they apparently disintegrate. I haven't seen one for years (or a Triumph Spitfire or TR-6, MGBs or MG Midgets). Fiat X19s were similar to the TR-7s style. Rarely see Datsun 240, 260, or 280 Zs either. Mercury Capris were another fun ride from the 1970s. The Hurst Olds Cutlass Supreme was a sweet domestic, pre-unleaded fuel ride.

I really can't tell most $7,500 cars from $50,000 cars that are on the road nowadays.

 

[Vjcvette]

The Aquarium Car. I had one for a day while my car was worked on by the dealer. Smoke started pouring out of the heater vents before even getting it off of the lot. A friend had one a few years after that. They ultimately ended up just abandoning it on the side of the road when it broke down.

Pacers had longer passenger side doors than driver's side.

My favorite car introduced in the 70s that advertised a wider interior was the Triumph TR-7. Wider than a Corvette inside. Unfortunately they apparently disintegrate. I haven't seen one for years (or a Triumph Spitfire or TR-6, MGBs or MG Midgets). Fiat X19s were similar to the TR-7s style. Rarely see Datsun 240, 260, or 280 Zs either. Mercury Capris were another fun ride from the 1970s. The Hurst Olds Cutlass Supreme was a sweet domestic, pre-unleaded fuel ride.

I really can't tell most $7,500 cars from $50,000 cars that are on the road nowadays.

That is a great story and funny too. Remember around 76 when the Cutlass, Monte Carlo and Buick Century and the Pontiac Grand Prix all looked alike.

 

[Vjcvette]

That is a great story and funny too. Remember around 76 when the Cutlass, Monte Carlo and Buick Century and the Pontiac Grand Prix all looked alike.

I meant Pontiac Lemans

 

[Vjcvette]

That is a great story and funny too. Remember around 76 when the Cutlass, Monte Carlo and Buick Century and the Pontiac Grand Prix all looked alike.

I remember in Knoxville one of my friends parents had a Pacer and we always called it the "Show Case" lol

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

That is a great story and funny too. Remember around 76 when the Cutlass, Monte Carlo and Buick Century and the Pontiac Grand Prix all looked alike.

1973 through 1977 they were pretty similar except for the sheet metal. They shrank in 1978 and looked even more the same.

The Olds Cutlass was the highest selling car in the US for a while. Hard to believe that the Oldsmobile brand is gone. I think that the Buick Century might have been a trim option or a different version of the Buick Regal. Other than the grill and rear lights, Buick Regals and Olds Cutlasses were pretty much identical looking by 1977. I think that there were significant differences in the GM V-8 engines and transmissions though.

 

[Vjcvette]

I would see out of the four, mostly Cutlasses and then Monte Carlo"s

 

[Vjcvette]

There was some kind of special edition Cutlass that had stripes on it

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

I have to admit that I do not know that game..."Butts Up"

Iirc, it was pretty simple. One person had a tennis ball and everybody lined up along a wall, bent over with their butts pointed at the thrower. Whoever got nailed with the tennis ball was the one throwing at the butts in the next round.