Bomb Building 101

[xoxoxoBruce]

The pressure cooker was aluminum, according to the news.

4th of July was the highlight of my year, as a kid. Extended family and friends would gather at Grandmas, stuff ourselves silly, big bonfire at dark, and fireworks. Real fireworks, big badda boom fireworks.

Sometime in the 50's, MA banned fireworks, but CT was a mile away. Later CT jumped on the do-gooder bandwagon, but it seemed one kin or another would be going to FL sometime during the winter and a stop at "South of the Border" was mandatory. My Pop and Uncles would always make sure they weren't going to be the one that brought home a poor show. Nobody wanted to be snickered at like opening your presents after Christmas dinner with a dull jackknife and tearing the paper rather than cutting the tape.

I think the worst injury was burned fingers from those damn sparkler wires, although I remember some tense moments when an 8oz skyrocket when wild and ended up under my Uncle's Mercury, bouncing up and down between the ground and the gas tank.

Anyway, one year something went awry, probably the recession in '58, and come 4th of July we had no fireworks. Grandmother rummaged around in her cellar and came up with a case of fucking quarter sticks. They weren't as pretty as the rockets, mortars, fountains and pinwheels, but shooting coffee cans out of a 4" pipe was amusing.

The rest of the year, when the stashed M-80s and Cherrybombs ran out, blasting caps and black powder, or cut open shotgun shells had to suffice.

Only used match heads in an ashtray with a pile of roaches to make a Turkey... but that was in later years.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Only used match heads in an ashtray with a pile of roaches to make a Turkey... but that was in later years.

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[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah, toward the end of an evening when a pile of roaches had accumulated, cremate then in a pile of match heads. A big hit of smoke and sulfer will curl your toes.