Reliving Childhood Memories - Looking Back from 94
The conversations my father and I share are lengthy and wide ranging. We spent a good deal of time speaking about politics - he is more Republican leaning, but both of are views are nuanced so we can have good discussions and arguments.
We recalled two childhood experiences that are much common now, at least in urban areas. "BB Guns" and firecrackers. He was given a BB gun by his father when he was about six years old. The BB gun remained in the family and I had it has well. This was one of a collection of nearly 20 toy guns, as I recall - more than any other boy in the neighborhood. Later I also received a BB pistol as a Christmas present. I would build exact replicas of eighteenth century warships out of plasticene and then simulate battles, shooting them up with my BB pistol. This was a great way to pass the time when I was sick. And childhood illnesses were - whooping cough, measles, chicken pox, flu were much longer then. Antibiotics didn't become widely available until I was a teen ager. On the other hand we had the same kind an empathetic family doctor throughout my growing up - and he made house calls!
Both my father and I shared experiences of mischief in which we engaged as boys (I will keep this in confidence). However there were no mass shootings in schools, like Columbine.
Firecrackers were legal when he was growing up - he was born in 1908 - and at least quasi leagal when I was groiwng up, circa 1942-50. He bought me my first cap pistol when I was about six or seven. He recalled when his father took him into the basement and they each shot his fathers derringer into the coal pile so he could see how it worked. I remember the derringer as well, and the service revolver his father carried as a Seventh Regiment Officer. My cousin and I happily played with these guns - fortunately there were no bullets and I can't remember us pointing them at each other.
We did discuss a lot of things other than guns, but these are the things that stick out in my recollection.
You should seek out your grandfather, or great grandfather if you have one (or grandmother or great grandmother) and see if they will share recollections of their childhood with you. This can be great fun, as it was for both of us, this birthday weekend.
We recalled two childhood experiences that are much common now, at least in urban areas. "BB Guns" and firecrackers. He was given a BB gun by his father when he was about six years old. The BB gun remained in the family and I had it has well. This was one of a collection of nearly 20 toy guns, as I recall - more than any other boy in the neighborhood. Later I also received a BB pistol as a Christmas present. I would build exact replicas of eighteenth century warships out of plasticene and then simulate battles, shooting them up with my BB pistol. This was a great way to pass the time when I was sick. And childhood illnesses were - whooping cough, measles, chicken pox, flu were much longer then. Antibiotics didn't become widely available until I was a teen ager. On the other hand we had the same kind an empathetic family doctor throughout my growing up - and he made house calls!
Both my father and I shared experiences of mischief in which we engaged as boys (I will keep this in confidence). However there were no mass shootings in schools, like Columbine.
Firecrackers were legal when he was growing up - he was born in 1908 - and at least quasi leagal when I was groiwng up, circa 1942-50. He bought me my first cap pistol when I was about six or seven. He recalled when his father took him into the basement and they each shot his fathers derringer into the coal pile so he could see how it worked. I remember the derringer as well, and the service revolver his father carried as a Seventh Regiment Officer. My cousin and I happily played with these guns - fortunately there were no bullets and I can't remember us pointing them at each other.
We did discuss a lot of things other than guns, but these are the things that stick out in my recollection.
You should seek out your grandfather, or great grandfather if you have one (or grandmother or great grandmother) and see if they will share recollections of their childhood with you. This can be great fun, as it was for both of us, this birthday weekend.
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