Old time play. What passtimes from your childhood will never be again?

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70. Spencerport, outside of Rochester- I was just thinking of refrigerator boxes last week

some kids would get inside and kick up with their legs, while other kids would try to stay on top.

Or we'd tip 'em upright, and four kids inside would try to walk around in them.

We'd dig underground forts and cover them with boards. We'd get one of those round black road flares filled with kerosene and use it for illumination. It's a wonder we didn't all suffocate in there. Playing cards on a flat piece of board in our underground fort.

Standing by the tracks in our old hometown as the trains thundered by. The crew would blow their horn and wave at us. We'd put pennies or nickels on the tracks to flatten them out. The tracks are gone now, torn up years ago. They took the bridge where the train went over our main street down last year.

Watching the freight barges sailing down the Erie Canal.

Apple wars- do kids still have apple wars?

The car dealership in town used to have a scrap area where they'd throw out all the defective parts. We'd dismantle the parts to see what was inside. Once, we discovered that if we re-assembled hydraulic valve lifters in a certain way, we could make a fart noise come out. We set up a little fart-noise factory in the woods and sold them to other kids.