Never had that here in TX. I was in grade school late 70s early 80's. There wasn't a lot of blasting going on around here. Lots of open range and cows where I grew up.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 6:09 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > bp > part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com > > > 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... >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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