Can anyone remember pinning flattened empty cigarette packets to our bicycle wheel spokes. We would swipe our mother's clothes pegs to pin them on. A great brrrrrr noise was made especially when we bicycled in a group. A great way to recycle ciggie packs but the old folks in the neighbourhood must have been alarmed at the noise. Laurie
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Yes, I remember using cigarette packages for that. And, during the 40's, we would cut out the "front" of the pack, where the main name was (Players, Sweet Caporal, Craven A, etc.,). This would actually be a square piece of cardboard and we would compete with all the other kids in the neighbourhood, or at school, by seeing who could fling them to get closest to the wall. This was done by putting a corner of the square card between our index and middle fingers, near the tips, and flinging it in a parallel plain so it would fly through the air towards a wall. Part of the competition was not only to have/win the most "cards", but who had the most different kinds. This was before they ever had the hockey/baseball etc., sports cards they have now. Unlike today, these "cards" didn't cost anything. In fact we'd get most of them by picking them up off the sidewalks or streets. People were actually slobs in those days! Some "brain" realized there could be a lot of money made from kids by selling cards with athelet's pictures on them, and a "tradition" died.
geez I sure remember both stories very well, closest to the wall and the bike with clothes pins, wonderful memories and cost Nothing, try to tell kids the fun we had then for free Jimmy
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