I've often wished I could return to some of my childhood sites and search my old play areas. I used to love to bury stuff.
Anyone got a story or wish?
teddy
Anyone got a story or wish?
teddy
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HOLA amigos,
When I was a boy, either 4 or 5, I lost a dime while climbing a pear tree on our farm. It was "my treasure" at the time and I always suspected my brother had found it and never told me. About five years ago, I got permission to detect there and remembered losing that dime. The pear tree was still standing (the house and barn are long-gone) so I did about two sweeps next to the base of the tree and got a hit - which turned out to be my long-lost silver dime, over 40 years in the ground - so my brother was innocent. That one stays in our collection. A few other old toys turned up too, but I sure didn't recognize any as they predated me.
Thanks for sharing your stories, brought back memories.
Oroblanco
Mr_Mojo_Risin said:A couple of years ago I hunted the playground at my 1st-3rd grade elementary school. I went to school there from 1976-1978. My friends and I used to bring marbles to play with before school, on recess and after school, we'd make dirt tracks (mazes, caves and chutes, etc.) and roll our marbles down dirt hills and the like. Anyway, I didn't find anything good for coins (1970's, 80's and 90's pennies mostly) but did find an old marble that I'm certain I lost there 30 years ago! Very cool
Oroblanco said:HOLA amigos,
When I was a boy, either 4 or 5, I lost a dime while climbing a pear tree on our farm. It was "my treasure" at the time and I always suspected my brother had found it and never told me. About five years ago, I got permission to detect there and remembered losing that dime. The pear tree was still standing (the house and barn are long-gone) so I did about two sweeps next to the base of the tree and got a hit - which turned out to be my long-lost silver dime, over 40 years in the ground - so my brother was innocent. That one stays in our collection. A few other old toys turned up too, but I sure didn't recognize any as they predated me.
Thanks for sharing your stories, brought back memories.
Oroblanco
PBK said:While THing, Ever Find Something You Had Lost Years Before?
Not that I'm sure of, although I must have lost at least one or two of those silver coins that I dug many years later at my old elementary school. (That reminds me... once, when I was in the 2nd grade— yes, I was only in it once — I got a well-worn Barber dime in change at a neighborhood store across the street from our school. I thought that I'd been cheated!)
An experience that I have had, 'way too many times, is digging up some item now classified as vintage or even antique, and thinking, "Gee, I can remember when those were new !"
(Then again, I can remember when the Dead Sea still felt fine and dandy... )