Is there something that anyone said that sparked your memory about something else?  And certainly, it did for me, to think way back during the war.  You know, when a lot of people weren’t having fun, what we still did for fun.

I had a couple of mice.

And so, blowing up things, playing hide-and-seek in the rhubarb, fishing.

I also played Jacks as well.  And I did read as well.

Oh yeah, I read.

I read.  Yeah.

Tried to read all the books in the library.

And the school had a program, if you read ten books during the summer vacation.  Then we’d walk to the library, which was quite a hike, but yeah.

And did anyone ever have a skate-scooter? When your roller skates started to wear out, you’d take a skate apart and…

Put it on a board.  I did that sure.

Put it on a board, yeah.

I had a skateboard, yeah a skateboard.

A skateboard is what you mean?  A skateboard, not a skate-scooter.

Yeah.

The first skateboard.

Yeah, those were the orange crate days.  You had wood available.

Yeah, the orange crate baskets.

I don’t remember putting the roller skate wheels on a board.  But, I do remember that.

Breaking your arm.

There were scooters.

Yeah, but they were expensive.

I tried unsuccessfully once or twice.

Scooters and wagons.