I vaguely remember something like that too, but I don't recall the details.
My early years growing up was in Illinois farm country, and we weren't too
far from a couple of strip mines that were operating back in those days.
Before I was a teenager, the strip mines had been decommissioned and turned
into fishing "resorts" or whatever it is they called them. My parents took
us fishing to a couple of them.
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:59 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I was young they had posters at grade school showing us what blasting
> caps looked like and to tell a grup if we saw any. I think there may have
> been tv commercials too. Just piqued my interest. Maybe it was due to
> growing up in logging country in Oregon. Did they do this in other places
> too?
>
> I found the lock open on an explosives locker at the county gravel pit and
> played with caps and sticks of dynamite. I never had the guts to actually
> try to set it off but I took them out and messed with them.
>
> Couple of farm kids in the area got into their dads caps and it killed one
> of them and blinded the other.
>
> I wonder when this ceased to be a thing?
>
> The big display boards they brought into JR High showing all the different
> kinds of drugs piqued my interest too...
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