That theater is in Oakland, CA ….. about 50 miles from meIt’s beautiful…. been there since the 1920’s.(NO, I do not remember it from back then.)
My father lived about a mile from there in his last years, and a good friend lives about half a mile in another direction…so I’ve driven past it many times.
So true. A road crew left 3 mounds of dirt over 6 ft. tall on an empty lot down the street from me. I’ve not seen one kid play on them. Not like in my day.
When my kids were little, my parents bought some playground equipment that I had selected for our back yard. Our house became the place for everybody to play; the extension that had been added on the back was originally a porch so it had wall to wall windows where I could work on my dressmaking while I watched the kids.
Hangman, a crytogram, and a card game called Gaps at www.betweenwaters.com daily (my morning mental calisthenics); FreeCell, Hearts, and Spider Solitaire while waiting for action on my home PC; frequent online Backgammon; very occasional Pogo games (especially Risk); spotting opportunities for puns, play and movie quotes, and songs (often parodies thereof) almost constantly; breaking license plate numbers down to their prime factors while commuting; also while commuting, mentally collect license plates from different states (two new collections each month), combining them into groups of bordering states according to some complicated rules, then during the next half month using those groups as the contenders in a game of “War Between the States” – a variant of the classic card game in which each card except the deuces is assigned to one of the lower 48 states; in order to take a given card, you must not only draw a larger card but also own a state that borders its corresponding state.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member over 10 years ago
My mom would’ve said ‘go find something to do’
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 10 years ago
Bev!
That theater is in Oakland, CA ….. about 50 miles from meIt’s beautiful…. been there since the 1920’s.(NO, I do not remember it from back then.)
My father lived about a mile from there in his last years, and a good friend lives about half a mile in another direction…so I’ve driven past it many times.
I wonder how they found out about Dry….
rubinocreative Premium Member over 10 years ago
At what do you play?
GROG Premium Member over 10 years ago
This and that.
Dani Rice over 10 years ago
We used to go for bike rides, jump on a pogo stick, play badminton. If the weather was bad, we rolled-skated in the basement.
jackdohany over 10 years ago
Shoot, I’m 75 and I still do all those things… cuz I can’t afford one of them ipad thingies!
MotherOfMoses over 10 years ago
It’s the killing your eyes (from looking at those comp screens) decade.
JR6019 over 10 years ago
So true. A road crew left 3 mounds of dirt over 6 ft. tall on an empty lot down the street from me. I’ve not seen one kid play on them. Not like in my day.
shadyguy over 10 years ago
So typical of youth today, nothing but couch potatoes!
vldazzle over 10 years ago
When my kids were little, my parents bought some playground equipment that I had selected for our back yard. Our house became the place for everybody to play; the extension that had been added on the back was originally a porch so it had wall to wall windows where I could work on my dressmaking while I watched the kids.
gcarlson over 10 years ago
Hangman, a crytogram, and a card game called Gaps at www.betweenwaters.com daily (my morning mental calisthenics); FreeCell, Hearts, and Spider Solitaire while waiting for action on my home PC; frequent online Backgammon; very occasional Pogo games (especially Risk); spotting opportunities for puns, play and movie quotes, and songs (often parodies thereof) almost constantly; breaking license plate numbers down to their prime factors while commuting; also while commuting, mentally collect license plates from different states (two new collections each month), combining them into groups of bordering states according to some complicated rules, then during the next half month using those groups as the contenders in a game of “War Between the States” – a variant of the classic card game in which each card except the deuces is assigned to one of the lower 48 states; in order to take a given card, you must not only draw a larger card but also own a state that borders its corresponding state.