Living in San Antonio back in the 60’s was….well it was just that….boring….I rode my banana bike from Sears with the leopard print on the seat and gold paint it was about as exciting as my life was at that time.
...up and down..
I lived on a short “dead end” block...I mean if you traveled to the end of the street there was this 6ft high fence that separated our boring world from the local airbase..
So that was me...up and down...up and down...up and down...Springtime...up and down….up and down….Summer time “hot”...up and down.....up and down..Fall Time...up and down.....up and down..Winter...yeah Christmas...follow the kids with the new bicycles…...up and down.....up and down..
Sure we played baseball on the vacant lot...then played football...then played war with toy guns...then played Star Trek….I was Bones….and then...up and down.....up and down..the street...well then one day my friend and I were looking at the Montgomery Wards Catalog and we saw this game...Hockey….table hockey..the kind of game that unlike foosball (which hadn’t been invented at that time… kinda look like this…
Well dang talk about playing that game to death...we played and played and played….
Now before you say “Hey that’s it?” It was the 60’s remember...however the music was awesome.
Now I did read a lot...I mean look in less than 400 words I described every summer during those times.
Well till a friend of mine bought a dimestore chess game.. Well we all read the instructions. But I couldn’t remember all the moves. But I tried and lost...my first game….did i tell you that stuck in my craw for a long time….till 1981 when I took to a chess board and game again….
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