These and Black Cat brand. Although it says not to hold them in your hand after lighting, when we were kids we would hold them as long as possible, watching that fuse burn down, and then flick them away at the very last possible instant.
There were accidents, but the damage was always minor.
We liked to jump through the shower of sparks from the fountain cones too, until once the neighbor kid Mark W. did it in short pants. Oops. Sometimes even the most basic lessons had to be learned first hand.
All the parents watched this fun with adult tolerance. Imagine that.
I remember Red Devil fireworks and I always emptied my young pockets to buy them. We used to break the wooden tails off the bottle rockets and make them #%&@ chasers...
ReplyDeleteHah! Bottle rockets were illegal where I grew up ( as were firecrackers ), so we made our own. We'd use a long pipe to start our homemade rockets skyward, which worked well until we had a bad one come out and screech over the heads of all the parents sitting on a lawn, and then explode loudly in the shrubbery next to our house (we'd rigged them to explode). The fun was over at that point, and it was back to firecrackers and jumping through the fountain of sparks.
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