Friday, May 18, 2012

Four for Fridays

Hello everyone! Welcome back to Four for Fridays after a short and pleasant week after my vacation. Thank you for your patience while I was on vacation. Here are some questions...

1) Did you climb trees when you were a kid?

2) Did you read comic books when you were a kid? If so, which ones?

3) Where did you often play at?

4) Where did you go swimming as a kid?

Enjoy your weekend!
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jedwis said...

No Drew, thank you for taking the time to do this, same goes for KK and her bedroom frolics thingy. Good stuff.
1. Yes, I built an awesome tree fort, but I allowed girls in mine. The beginnings of an engineer.
2. No comic books, just Playboy and Penthouse, the beginnings of( no comments please)
3. I grew up in the southside of Chicago, we played whiffle ball in vacate lots until it was too dark to see.
4. I was a caddy at a country club, Mondays was employee day at the pool, remember the scene in Caddyshack?

Everyone have an enjoyable weekend.

May 18, 2012 at 7:42 AM
DodgeBoy said...

1. Yes, climbed a lot of trees. We used to go to Graceland cemetary and climb the chestnut trees and jump on the branches to shake them off. Take them home, pry them out of their spiney shells to get the prize inside. (We were easily amused.)

2. Mostly Archie comics.

3. Played in the park across the street. When we got older we would ride out bikes to Colonial Park.

4. When I was real young I remember going to the outdoor pool by Park High School. My grandma would take me to north beach. The Quarry when we were teenagers. Jumped off some of the shorter cliffs.

May 18, 2012 at 8:02 AM
Beejay said...

1. Sure did....
2. Yep, Archie, Superman, etc.
3. When I was a small child, we lived on a farm outside of Oconto Falls, so at home. When we moved to Milwaukee, Burnham or Mitchell Playgrounds or the alley!
4. In Oconto Falls at the beach (Oconto River), when we lived outside of Richland Center, Willow Creek and in Milwaukee, Jackson Park...a time or two to Bradford Beach.

Have a great weekend.

May 18, 2012 at 8:31 AM
Tender Heart Bear said...

1) Yes I did up north when I was younger.

2) Some but they were my friends. I don't remember I really wasn't into comic books.

3) Park, friends house.

4) In Illinois it was at a public pool and up north it was at Boulder Lake.

I hope everyone has a great weekend and enjoy the warm weather!♥

May 18, 2012 at 8:33 AM
OKIE said...

1. Yes I did.
2. At first I thought no, then I remembered Archie.
3. All over the neighborhood. And (back then you could), in the street which is where we played baseball.
4. Park High School pool. And then to the quarry when it was free.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Jedwis, as always, thanks for the laugh.

May 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM
SER said...

1) Yes, Had a giant oak in the backyard and a chestnut tree in the front.

2) didn't care for comic books

3) Around the neighborhood and in the brickyard.
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4) Park Pool on 12th Street, it was great!

May 18, 2012 at 10:42 AM
SER said...

Also went to North Beach a lot when we move to the North Side

May 18, 2012 at 10:45 AM
OrbsCorbs said...

1) Yes. We climbed trees down at the lake bank so our mothers couldn't yell at us.

2) Yes. I dug the superheroes but read some like Archie, too.

3) Everywhere. Other kids' yards. (We didn't have much of one.) In the street. At the lake bank. At Lakeview Park.

4) Lake Michigan was a block away.

May 18, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Why Not? said...

1. sometimes, not really big into it I am/was scared of heights..

2. No

3. Island Park

4. my parents had a pool, or one of the neighbors pools..

May 18, 2012 at 2:05 PM
Toad said...

1. NO. I got In PLENTY of trouble ON the ground.

2. NO. I ate my allowence. Candy was the IT FACTOR.

3. Knapp School Playground, and just our general neighborhood.

4. Washington Park Pool, and sometimes Lake Michigan.

GREAT questions, and am I ever happy your BACK.

May 18, 2012 at 2:16 PM
Toad said...

SER, You bring up "Brickyard" Actually I forgot about "jensen's Brickyard" on Grange next to the Railroad tracks. We spent LOTS of time there. Later In life they built Apartments In that spot, so they would have a place to murder people.

May 18, 2012 at 2:22 PM
kkdither said...

1. Heck yeah, If I wasn't in a tree, we had a blanket across the clothesline.
2. Not comic books, but lots of books. I was one of the bookmobile's best customers.
3. Played in the neighborhood; we'd ride bikes and roller skate all over the area, bounded by the major streets. In the summer, the nearby school had a park-tender and we'd go there, usually in the mornings and do crafts or something. In the winter, the nearby community center had an ice skating rink.
4. We had a 3 1/2' deep by 18' diameter pool later on, but mostly remember running through the sprinkler or filling water balloons as a younger child.

Good memories. Thanks, drew!

May 18, 2012 at 3:37 PM
drewzepmeister said...

1) There was a willow tree in my neighbor's yard that I loved to climb.

2) I still do at times, namely the Legion of Super Heroes.

3) I lived on a dead end street when I was a kid, which made it great to play in-no traffic! Then there was Pritchard Park. I must have named every trial there.

4) Arbutus Lake, Up North.

May 18, 2012 at 7:18 PM
lizardmom said...

nope - allergic

nope

in the house - allergies and asthma were so bad that somebody told the JT about me and they did a front page story on me in a asthma series

only when the neighbors had me over, in the pool

May 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM
lizardmom said...

sorry Beejay, AN asthma series :)

May 18, 2012 at 8:20 PM
OrbsCorbs said...

I never thought of your allergies affecting your childhood, Lizardmom. It doesn't sound like much fun.

May 18, 2012 at 8:25 PM

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