In a bid to keep sanity, we bring you Day 3 of our Memory Lane Contest. Post your memories here. Two weeks later, someone wins a prize. It could be you!
Meanwhile, here’s this…
These water-powered rockets were big, big, big! on TV when I was a boy. Oh, how I wanted one! As you can see, they’re still around. I finally got one when I was in my forties… and it didn’t work! Grrr! Didn’t even sort of work. It just went “Pssht!” and fell off the launcher. Every time.
And now for some of your memories!
I remember every Summer growing working picking fruit in the farms. One was next to the sewage works. You can guess at the smell when the wind changed. It was bad.
What kind of fruit were you picking in Scotland?
Raspberry, strawberries and gooseberries.
My friend across the street had a motorized plane tied to a control handle that went round and round. It was really loud and required a big field to operate it. Besides the user getting dizzy, the plane was always crashing into the ground at high speeds, so it was back to the drawing board to fix it, then go out and wreck it some more. These planes really never caught on. FYI: Lee, have seen the movie “October Sky?” You would love it.
Gee, I haven’t seen one of those in decades..