Somethng we ALL used to dream about when we were kids

[Doofy]

Heck, when I was 10 in 1966....I was dreaming of Raquel Welsh in 1,000,000 BC.....

I guess being a horn dog was a rite of passage that we all went thru. Thanks for the memories 'cause my get up and go, got up and went!

 

[arpt209]

In my middle teens I had a friend who was the stand-in for Raquel Welch in the movie called "The Legend of Walks Far Woman". Dream come true.

At an earlier time in the general vicinity of Waco, TX in a creek we used to fish there were GIANT bird tracks that were in the rock that formed the creek bottom at that point. The water over them was less than a foot deep. I often think about them. I'll have to ask my brothers if they remember them

 

[EddieWalker]

Reading the title of this thread, my first thought was building a tunnel like they had in Hogans Heroes. We where always building forts, including a few tunnels that my Mom found and filled in, and one that she never found and is probably still in between a set of trees in the field behind the house I grew up in. That one was pretty close to Hogans heroes with battery lights, a big room with a table in the middle of it and a very secret entrance in some bushes at the base of a huge oak tree.

Finding anything dinosaur was probably top ten. If it wasn't, it should have been!!!

 

[Doofy]

Reading the title of this thread, my first thought was building a tunnel like they had in Hogans Heroes. We where always building forts, including a few tunnels that my Mom found and filled in, and one that she never found and is probably still in between a set of trees in the field behind the house I grew up in. That one was pretty close to Hogans heroes with battery lights, a big room with a table in the middle of it and a very secret entrance in some bushes at the base of a huge oak tree.

Finding anything dinosaur was probably top ten. If it wasn't, it should have been!!!

My best memories growing up were of building forts, digging tunnels and playing "Army". Good Times!

 

[Peter 315]

My best memories growing up were of building forts, digging tunnels and playing "Army". Good Times!

Forts out of pallets, Maybe that why those pallets are in the field they have nothing to do

 

[Doofy]

Forts out of pallets, Maybe that why those pallets are in the field they have nothing to do

Hahahaha. so...that is where all those pallets came from? Good catch.

 

[JRobyn]

Probably a miracle that a bunch of us aren't dead due to cave-ins of our "forts".

 

[Doofy]

I also thought it was great fun to sit on the sidewalk with a hammer and a box of .22 shells. This was in a town of maybe 10,000.

 

[MossRoad]

My sisters dug a tunnel in a huge pile of dirt in our back yard. More like a trench, but they put plywood over the top and dirt over that. They had lanterns, chairs, throw rugs, flowers, etc... full of girly stuff! :laughing:

My mom got worried they'd die in a cave-in, made them pull it all out and made my dad fill it in. Little did they know pretty much every kid, boys and girls, in our little secluded neighborhood knew the layout of about 2 miles of city-owned 8' diameter drainage tunnels like the back of our hands! Where the entrances, exits, man-hole covers, ladders, etc... were.

 

[Doofy]

My sisters dug a tunnel in a huge pile of dirt in our back yard. More like a trench, but they put plywood over the top and dirt over that. They had lanterns, chairs, throw rugs, flowers, etc... full of girly stuff! :laughing:

My mom got worried they'd die in a cave-in, made them pull it all out and made my dad fill it in. Little did they know pretty much every kid, boys and girls, in our little secluded neighborhood knew the layout of about 2 miles of city-owned 8' diameter drainage tunnels like the back of our hands! Where the entrances, exits, man-hole covers, ladders, etc... were.

Darn, a missed opportunity. I never knew about drainage tunnels and such while growing up. I could have tempted fate more so than I did.