What we did for fun
I was watching TCM the other evening while having dinner and I caught the end of one movie and the beginning of another...Originally Posted by Jedburgh
You ain't kiddin'. Making homemade explosives in a RR switching yard? Would probably end up in Gitmo now.
Both starred Robert Taylor and both were about knights. One was a very distorted Ivanhoe and the other was Knights of the Round Table. They came out in the early 50s and by the late 50s were showing on our then 3 channel TV sets in black and white.
Those 2 movies (and others of the same genre) inspired neighbohood jousting matches on bicycles with pointed lances and apple crate shields. Sword fights with the same shields and one by two swords suitablly pointed. Our aluminum foil and cardboard "helmets" did little to soften a blow that came over the top of the shield. Apple crate lids slowed but did not stop a lance touch when 2 kids were hurtling toward each other at top speeds.
Nobody got seriously hurt. Go figure.
Tom
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