I SAY to my husband I SAVE MY PENNY AND hit my head then I see fireworks in that case!

..saw our neighbor pack bamboo tubes, talk about nerves of steel. i was never around for the displays, though.

Gotta be Big Island!

@opso - I KNEW you'd have some stories to tell. Demolition crew to create an avalanche - you were destined to be an engineer. Thanks for the stories.

good topic Largo!

- only played with duck brand.....no camel brand (baby kine)

- carried around the cigar or mac nut box filled with stash of bottle rockets, firecrackers and punk for the day.

- blow up all da old model cars, planes, tanks, toads....etc

- set up army men and vehicles and throw firecrackers to try and blow them all up. sometimes one of the shushus would melt one of the army men. that was a "10" on da cool factor.

- play demolition crew: find some small hill or embankment where get loose rocks and strategically place firecrackers to make an avalanche. adjust strength charges for stubborn areas.
run when land owner of said hill comes out and sees what's going on.

- make mud cannon: thrust a piece of 3/4"dia x 8 to 12 inch long into the ground of hard compacted soil so the mud sticks to the inside of the pipe. place firecracker in other side, light and watch mud splatter all ova da place.

- make depth charges: wrap a small rock and a duck brand in tin foil all da way up to the tip of the fuse. light the fuse and throw in water. sometimes some fish get concussion.

- play semi rotten orange/tangerine fight: put one firecracker inside the orange, light fuse and throw at opponents. preferably to explode above opponents for the "shower" effect.

- play bottle rocket fight: use da used roman candle as aimer/launcher. stay far enough away so the rocket would explode by your opponents. at da end of da night......your whole arm stay black.
be careful tho.....my friend got hurt playing this game. he fell down a rock embankment.....to much beeas.

- don't want to get into b-o-m-b making.

and yeah.....dem 4 oz. rockets was spooooky. dunno where da buggah going shoot. so cool tho.

my memories of fireworks include the first time one of my neighbors threw one of those blooming flower things - with report - into the canal in the back of our house! ho man... everything shook and i think my heart stopped! i never did get used to the sound... scared me every time! my other memory also includes those blooming flowers... spinning, spinning on our downward sloping driveway, then shooting off to the right, right towards me!! i had to run away, hide behind the car (it followed me!) then jump up on the rock wall to get away!!