We had four seasons and so we had good times no matter what time of the year it was. I grew up there during the 1940's so it was before TV, cell phones, ipads and ipods. we did have a telephone, however it was a party line, so called because there was nine families on one phone line. When you would pick up the phone to make a call there was nearly always someone on the line talking. (what fun we had listening to their conversations!!)
We would go outside, find our friends and look for adventures to do.
Some of our adventures were; Ice skating on the ponds by Diane Childs home. It was cold, fun and we would do it for hours. One day I fell and cracked my forehead so hard it knocked me out cold, I didn't much like to skate after that. In the summer at Diane's home her brothers Doug and Jerry would make up treasure hunts for us and it would take all day to complete them because they were so creative as to where they sent us. One time on a treasure hunt we went into their big, tall, round grainery and it was about half full of grain.No problem getting in, getting out was scary, the more we moved around in that grain the deeper we sank down into it. Well we finally had to be rescued from that adventure and did not go in there again. Jerry also created a huge swing that went around in circles. It was fastened to a hub from a vehicle, like the center from an old wagonwheel. He attached big ropes to the hub and put little round wooden seats on the end of the rope, The hub was attached on top of a pole about 20 feet in the air. It was really fun because we could swing way out in an arc. You can see a proto type of this swing nowdays at most carnivals. someone took his idea and put lots of swings on the hub so they can all swing way out.
We also hiked up to little hollow for picnics and playing hide-n-seek. We spent many summer days there. In the winter we could make long sleigh riding hills as there were lots of hills and valleys in there.
When the apple trees put forth thier apples we built a tree house in Arlene & Willie Boren's big apple tree. We would take our salt shakers, lots of comic books and spend many summer afternoons there.
Lots of times in late afternoons and evenings every child, teenager, and sometimes grown ups gathered at different homes in the neighborhood. Adults would visit and we kids would play games like hide-n-seek, run sheepy run, kick the can, red rover, and anti on over. what good times, and good friends we all had out on Springville's "Straight Line."
