July 4th picnics when you were a kid

[HardyGirl]

Happy 4th, Megoheads!

If any of you are like me, this day brings back lots of memories of 4th of July picnics past. Sometimes our family had our picnics at Echo Hill/Camp Henry in upstate NY. I can remember some of the foods/drinks we brought along:

various flavors of White Rose soda
2 bags of Cheetos (Quick Fried and Baked)
my mom's potato salad
various sandwiches (ham and cheese, egg salad, baloney, PB&J)
Lay's potato chips
Chips Ahoy cookies
various fruits

And of course "groovy" AM rock was playing on the portable transistor radio like "Indian Reservation", "Summer Breeze", "Alone Again, Naturally", & "Treat Her Like A Lady".

Can you think of some good July 4th picnics from your childhood? What foods did you eat? What music did you listen to?

[megomania]

Happy 4th, Megoheads! If any of you are like me, this day brings back lots of memories of 4th of July picnics past. Sometimes our family had our picnics at Echo Hill/Camp Henry in upstate NY. I can remember some of the foods/drinks we brought along: various flavors of White Rose soda 2 bags of Cheetos (Quick Fried and Baked) my mom's potato salad various sandwiches (ham and cheese, egg salad, baloney, PB&J) Lay's potato chips Chips Ahoy cookies various fruits And of course "groovy" AM rock was playing on the portable transistor radio like "Indian Reservation", "Summer Breeze", "Alone Again, Naturally", & "Treat Her Like A Lady". Can you think of some good July 4th picnics from your childhood? What foods did you eat? What music did you listen to?

Haha.

Have SiriusXMs Yacht Rock station playing right now through the Jambox as we are setting up for a BBQ. It's all Seals and Crofts, Ambrosia, Doobie Brothers, etc.

[YoungOnce]

I remember some crazy-hot July 4th family get-togethers. Waiting for the charcoal to get hot on that Kmart grill. Setting up that cheap badmitten set and the birdies coming apart after ten minutes of play.

All us kids would be sweaty. We'd come to the cooler and grab a soft drink ( a local favorite in central KY is a gingerale type drink called Ale-8 One... Read it fast, it says "a late one")

When the darkness would fall, an adult would light the fireworks, the big kind, before they were deemed illegal.

[Mikey]

I remember going to the local ice house with my older brother to get a few cubes.

We'd then stop at the A-Treat distributer to fill up on dozens of flavors of soda.

Finally when we got home it was my job to break up the ice and put it in new unused garbage cans (hillbilly coolers)

That was my pre-4th party job ever year.

Just thought of something ..........

I can't believe our town still had an ice house in the 70's

[Duncan]

My great aunt lived in the Olney section of Philly (in a house built by her father in the early 1900s, I believe), and she had a big back yard. We usually went over there for the day and had dogs, burgers, potato & macaroni salads, solar iced tea and ice cream. My grandparents (great aunt's sister & brother in-law) were usually in town for a few weeks around the 4th, so I got to see them, too. I played with a few of the neighbor kids, and we capped the evening off with fireworks shot off at the local school. We all set up lawn chairs in the middle of the street in front of the house (basically shut down traffic), and we had a great view while avoiding the crowd. Good times.

[rche]

fireworks shows and hand cranked homemade ice cream. Kids got to take turns cranking on the ancient ice cream machine my great aunts had. Payoff was usually peach or peppermint.

[Nostalgiabuff]

burgers and dogs, corn on the cob and more soda and chips than we could drink or eat. good times.

[Hector]

I was known as the "watermelon" kid...because that's what I mostly ate (still do, but now more as a dessert, lol)...

[Mikey]

I miss cherry bombs

do they even make them anymore ?