April Foolishness

**jeepster09** · 04-05-2022, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by Armybrat

I grew up on Army posts in the 1940s & ‘50s that had a minimum of kids playgrounds.
But we did get to play on some cool stuff like Sherman tanks, half tracks, howitzers that were displayed.
At Fort Leavenworth they even had a static display of a captured Nazi Buzz Bomb from WW2 that I loved to crawl all over.
Didn’t get to play on one of those merry-go-round things until we were stationed in St.Louis in the mid 1950s. I didn’t like it because it launched me along with a stream of barf.

Leavenworth was my dad's post. He was an MP there. His duty was riding the trains bringing back prisoners from the east coast [I guess that would of been great duty during the war].

**jeepster09** · 04-05-2022, 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by dao

Ok, so I should have said, "Jeep, you ever been to the ice races on the lake"?

We were riding that roller coaster once when they stopped the cars right before we got to the top and it released us. They made us walk down because a cable had broken.

Ahhh the memories of the stuff we did as kids! Where I grew up we all had our own cars by about age 10. I didn't live far from some of the Kennedy's in Massachusetts and they let us drive in their gravel company pits which was next to a forest with lots of logging roads. I remember being told by manager just to stay away from the hogs. At that age didn't mean anything to us "stay away from hogs" I think back and realized he told us that for our own good, lucky the hogs never ate us [they were wild ones]. Here is clip from local paper back then of one of our many mischievous adventures. We convinced Bobby to put on the silver fall out suit from my dad's closet, shoved a flashing flashlight lantern down the back and taped on some t.v. rabbit ears to his head......then came convincing people along along the road we saw a spaceship land!

**dao** · 04-05-2022, 03:13 PM

Fun times, those bygone days of our youth. Sometimes I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. But most all of us learned some hard lessons due to what we didn't know then. Lucky for you the meanness of hogs wasn't one of them!