Change of subject, now that we started this subject: Childhood Playtime:

I had forgotten about hula hoops! I used to be really good at that in my skinny mousy days.

I think there is or was 10 pin bowling here. I know there was, and still is, bumper bowling for kids. There was a soda/icecream shop downtown with a bowling alley. That was fun.

Yep, jump rope and double jump rope, and hopscotch.

My parents built us stilts of different heights. That was fun. It was actually quite easy. Probably not so easy now. 

I used to roller skate a lot. We had the only house with a sidewalk, so our sidewalk was, more or less, Main Street with roller skates and pedal cars when the neighbor brought his red pedal car. Since we were the only ones with a sidewalk, I could never figure out why his parents got him a pedal car. It did not work on a dirt trodden path. 🥴

At the end of the sidewalk, I removed the skates from the sneakers and walked down the street to visit all the neighbors. I think I was the only member of my family who knew everyone, in either direction, in our neighborhood. 

I lived at the skating rink all Winter. Tried it again back in 2004 or so, when we had a trip to NYC awarded to us. We went to Central Park. They did not have regular iceskates. They had those molded plastic things that you cannot tie up securely, and dig into the leg.  You need the leather skate boots you lace up so your feet become one with the skate! So disappointing. 

If this topic continues, I will add more. 

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Not sure, but it basically it was basically just a move. I am not having that issue. Weird.