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4520BW · Dec 10, 2021

Should read mailboxes!

Dave BN · Dec 10, 2021

I never blew up a mailbox but lots of GI Joe's and Matchbox cars etc. Things that would be valuable today.
Dave

Geo-TH,In · Dec 10, 2021

I went fishing with those. They work underwater.
Never got any fish.

Mike M · Dec 10, 2021

What do you mean ? The last ones I bought were labeled for to scare birds away from crops !
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muleman51 · Dec 10, 2021

We put them in holes in an old clay block silo and it blew out the block. It wasn't being used.

pete 23 · Dec 10, 2021

Called them tnt bombs. Had to order them and they came to the train depot. And yes, they did work under water. Made a cannon with a cut off pitch fork handle for a projectile.

Could never see where the piece went so lined it up in front of the granary with two five gallon pails in front of it. Went right through both pails , bounced off granary and disappeared
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Eventually opened up my cannon also. That was in early 50's.

aFORDable · Dec 10, 2021

In my case it would be 60 years ago. Cherry Bomb!

fixerupper · Dec 10, 2021

I have a box of the modern version. They still go off under water but they dont have any more punch than a firecracker. Drop one in a pail of water and the pail goes thump and a few sprinkles fly out but that is the end of the excitement. Its nothing like the 1/4 stick of dynamite we could get fifty years ago.

gregww · Dec 10, 2021

Where I came from, cherry bombs were a red ball, about 3/4". There were called M-80's

Shetland Sheepdog · Dec 10, 2021

And all this time I thought cherry bombs were glass pack mufflers

wrenchere85 · Dec 10, 2021

Ya had to replace a mail box 60 years ago. They would send a 59 ford hub cap into the air until it was just a speck, and turn a Crisco can into a flat peace of sheet metal. Or so I hear. We used to drive to Ohio to get them,an hour or hour and a half each way. Wish I could still buy some like the old ones. I promise I won't put any in a mail box.LOL

Rich'sToys · Dec 10, 2021

(quoted from post at 12:43:59 12/10/21) And all this time I thought cherry bombs were glass pack mufflers

They were, but they were named after the originals Greg is referring to. Those were, as he mentioned, in the shape of a red ball with a green fuse. They looked like cherries, hence the name.

gregww · Dec 10, 2021

Back in high school a kid, Ed Degner, lit a cheery bomb and held onto it. Cherry bombs and smoke bombs looked pretty much the same. He thought it was a smoke bomb. It wasn't. He didn't lose his thumb, but it sure didn't look good.

old-9 · Dec 10, 2021

Back in 1965 I had a convertible, a Whamo slingshot,and a box of cherry bombs. Buddy would hold sling shot I would light with cigar lighter, and hope for the best. The very last one I tried to shoot, I was outside of car, GF lit the fuse,I pulled back the rubber bands,, and one band broke. I dropped the bomb no damage, but never trusted the old whamo again.
good old days joe

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