Corgi toy cars...I had a Corgi Batmobile! Dinky toys too...awesome quality toy vehicles. MMatchbox too of course. Tonkatoys! The original GI Joe...toy guns that had I kept 'em in good shape would be worth a little for sure. Toy robots...spaceships...Apollo stuff right? How can I forget...Thunderbirds are Go! I had Thunderbird 2...the one with the wee submarine inside. Corgi too I believe.

Oh lets see...India rubber superballs that outdo whatever calls itself a superball these days...It didn't last long. *grin* O-pee-chee Hockey cards and that fantastic tasting gum inside each pack. Pop for a dime...my discovery...to my moms chagrin, of the pinball machine in the arena canteen. Road hockey road hockey road hockey.......road hockey. Learning to pop wheelies for the first time on my 3 speed 'banana' bike. And road hockey.

This is amusing Denv and welcome to PC by the way! Let's see what else I can dredge up...you no doubt realize we are close in age...Dead on actually...I was born in Canada. We def. shared some similar things.

Wool 3 finger 'trigger' mitts...my Gran made untold pairs of 'em for us kids growing up. Put on 2 pairs and even if your hands got wet they'd be tolerable in the cold. The smell of drying mitts! Holy god man...that's a smell I'd like to visit. Wonderful days back then. Yeah. It was good.

THe first snowmobiles in town...mid 60s...Bombadier ski-doos...almost all of 'em...yellow loud smelled great and I wanted one! The adults and older kids would drag us around on sleds sometimes. As was popular for all us kids back then...the first forays into the woods...making little lean-tos and starting log cabins that never ever got finished. I was 8 when I asked my father could I take the axe into the woods. My mom was pretty worried...all went well...chewed down my first 'tree' that day. Maybe 3 inches in diameter...a beaver would have been quicker. *grin*

Learning to troutfish with my father...our old creel...I'm looking at it right now. Inside are still lures and gear from 30 yrs past at least. The creel is older than I am...very much repaired...it stays with me forever.

Damn! I'm flooded with stuff...I can't go on...too many great things to post!...I'll have to do this separately sometime for my own memories sake. Those early yrs were my best. Til 11. So factoring in that my 1st vague memories identified for sure, are maybe around age 4...that gives me 6 or 7 yrs out of 51 where I can claim things went well. Sorry...dint mean to go there...this stuff.is good right? Yep...thanks Denv! I needed to be brought back there for a bit...Great suggestion for a thread...I hope others chime in!