DETAILS DESCRIPTION: Play time was creative. Games were invented when the old ones became dull. Toys were likewise created when the real things weren't available. I can recall using tree branches for army rifles and blocks of wood for walkie-talkies. If you didn't have a cowboy pistol, forefinger and thumb worked great. The best part: you could never misplace your weapon. You made these wonderful clicking sounds when cocking the ol' sharpshooter, and making the same noises for returning it to the invisible holster on your hip. Still games such as charades, bingo and Twister were very popular.
Most of the kids in my neighborhood did not have every desire satisfied with the flip of a cell phone or the logging on of the internet. To us, a text message was what you scribbled on schoolyard concrete; a chat room was inside your secret fort or the sanctity of your bedroom; Blogs were the monsters in the closet, or the creatures trapped inside the TV screens of Saturday afternoon horror matinees. Unlike today, people connected and not vice-versa. With that I mean to say that a lack of technological advancement never stopped us from having the times of our lives. Imagination was more valuable than anything, and I'd swap out a cell phone for a homemade kite any old day of the week.
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