Posted by tg in VA on April 09, 2016 at 08:41:18 from (166.137.240.83):
In Reply to: other memories long gone posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on April 08, 2016 at 19:14:12:
Age 12, hand digging an air raid shelter in a neighbor's back yard with the neighbor's son (he was 13). The ground was dry and hard. We figured it would be easier to just blow a hole than to keep digging. Got his older brother (age 15) to take us to the hardware store. Went in to buy gun powder and dynamite fuse...it must have been our ages because they would only sell us one or the other. Undaunted, we purchased the gun powder and then had the brother drive us across town to another hardware store where we bought the fuse. Got back to the "construction" site, filled a jar with gun powder, sealed the lid with wax, punched a hole in the lid, inserted the fuse, buried it, lit the fuse and went down into the back yard to play. The explosion rocked the neighborhood, of course we knew nothing...AND, it didn't make much of a hole. That was in 1957...today we'd propbably be in jail for just trying to buy the gunpowder or fuse. I'm glad I was raised in a simpler time.
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