Chief Longwind Of The North
Certified/Certifiable
Why being a child in he 60's was the best:
Oh, and I almost forgot, climbing to the top of a tall red pine, at age 7, and swaying with the tree in the wind.
To quote a lyric from a Julie Andrews song, "These are a few of my favorite things"
And so, which were/are your best childhood years, and what made them special?
Seeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
- Balsa wood gliders for 15 cents
- Fizzies
- 12 0z. pop for a dime. Smaller bottles for a nickel
- Big C 3/4 lb. burger 40 99 cents.
- All you could eat fries, plus gravy, at KFC for a dime.
- KFC original was the Colonel's original recipe
- DQ cones were a dime per scoop, with coating
- PDQ chocolate or eggnog milk flavoring
- A&W root beer floats made from A&W draft root beer, in frosted mug
- baseball bubblegum balls in long strings
- Hunting with bow, or shotgun allowed with adult tat age 12
- Hunting with rifle at age 14, with an adult
- No fishing license required until age 16
- Rode bike 5, 10 miles from home without parents worrying about crazy people
- West Pier Drive In cold cut subs
- Hard ice cream at 5 cents a scoop, any flavor they had
- Paul Bunyan 1/2 lb. burger at Antler's bar & grill
- Rosni's Pizza
- Fishing off of the front yard for pike, salmon, perch, and walleye
- Swimming off of the East side of the front yard.
- Playing baseball in an empty area of the cemetery
- Repairing and owning my own snowmobile by age 12
- My first motorcycle by age12
- My first bow with real arrows by age 7
- First bb gun by age 7
- Lots of boys in the neighborhood, 17 in the subdivision where my Dad lived.
- No parental chaperone needed when trick or treating
- No video games.
- Tree forts built wat too high in very tall trees
- Boy Scouts was very popular, and we had both an amazing scoutmaster, and assistant scoutmaster.
- Wilderness campouts, crossing a river every bit as big as the Mississippi River, in a canoe, making a makeshift camp out of tarps, stones for a fire ring, a hand dug latrine, and fishing off of the shore that would have made Huck Finn proud.
- Amazing, trustworthy friends
- I still believed in heroes, and was un-jaded, and innocent.
Oh, and I almost forgot, climbing to the top of a tall red pine, at age 7, and swaying with the tree in the wind.
To quote a lyric from a Julie Andrews song, "These are a few of my favorite things"
And so, which were/are your best childhood years, and what made them special?
Seeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
