[AT] OT if you ever wondered what to do for friend who hasitall when his 60th birthday is coming.

[charlie hill]

It wasn't much different here Mark.  I don't know of any dynamite that rode
the school bus but it was certainly possible for a farm boy to go to the 
farm supply store and buy some.
I think you were supposed to be 18.  I don't know if that was a law or just 
the rule at the local dynamite store
but I'm sure most any kid could have gotten some for his dad if the guy at 
the store knew him.
We often took our hunting rifles and shotguns to school in the car or truck 
so we could go hunting on the way to or from school
It wasn't uncommon for a pickup truck to sit in the school parking lot with 
2 or 3 guns hanging in the gun rack, clearly visible
through the back window and with the truck doors unlocked.  On a Friday 
night when we were playing football nearly every truck in the parking
lot had rifles and shotguns in them.  They stayed there, hanging in the gun 
rack all the way through the fall and winter.  It was just a way of life.

Charlie


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From: "Mark Greer" <markagreer at embarqmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:12 PM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] OT if you ever wondered what to do for friend who hasitall
when his 60th birthday is coming.

> I've probably told this here before, but my neighbor up the street tells a
> story about dynamite that would NEVER happen today. Lawrence is
> 70-something
> and has farmed all his life. When he was in high school his father called
> in
> to town and ordered a case of dynamite from the local hardware to blast
> some
> stumps out with. Larry G knows who they are (Johnson's in Orrville).
> Lawrence walked over to the hardware after school and picked up the case
> of
> dynamite and then got on the school bus and took it home. If you tried
> that
> today you'd be on the national news in no time flat.
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 6:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT if you ever wondered what to do for friend who has
> itall when his 60th birthday is coming.
>
>
> So much for the land of the free.  Can you imagine what would happen if we
> did that in the US these days?  Growing up I had a friend who's
> grandmother
> gave him a case of dynamite for Christmas every year.   He rode around the
> country setting off dynamite like most of us did fire crackers.   Don't
> mean
> to be political by this but things sure have changed more here than they
> apparently have in other places.
>
> Charlie
>
>
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