re: The Good Old Days in Baton Rouge

Treehouses....we buit many, many treehouses in the woods. Funny how the woods have completely vanished over the years.
We wore heavy jackets in the winter time and played war games with our Daisy BB guns. Of course, head shots were not allowed!
Swimming in large ditches after or during a heavy rainfalls. Built gokarts that you steered with your feet while the smaller kids pushed you from behind.
Collected soft drink bottles for cash from Winn Dixie. I remember getting a whopping 3 cents per bottle. Cans weren't being used much back then.
Roy Rogers early Saturday morning, then double feature westerns with Audie Murphy, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, etc.