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My paper route, BB gun wars (single pump only), Walking Hwy 99 in Hazel Dell checking every coin return in every shop and getting enough money to play pinball at Hazel Dell Lanes. Playboys in our tree fort where Mom couldn't go, riding the train from the Vancouver freight yard to the Portland freight yard and being picked up by the Rail Road police because they thought we were runaways. Stealing a bottle of Boones Farm Tickle Pink wine from a hobo camp (hadn't been opened) and almost getting caught. Learning to drive my Grandpa's Dodge Polara with a push button transmission in the ally behind his house off 4th Plain in Vancouver. VFW and Grange hall gun shows with my Grandpa when I was still single digits wondering why he would get a gun, never shoot it then trade it off to another old fart. Most of the above were with my best buddies Mitchel, Mike and Butch. My Grandpa Schell taught me how to shoot when I was 6, he was a VPD motorcycle cop until he retired in 1975.
What great times those were for sure!
What great times those were for sure!