Who likes marbles??? Do you still have yours??

[SoCalDem]

We found a deerskin pouch of marbles that my husband had when he was a little boy.. Even though I was a girl, I was ruthless at marbles.. I would win everyone's BEST ones :evilgrin:.. But like my mental marbles, I lost them along the way :(

http://marblealan.com/vacor/


home page.... http://www.marblealan.com/

[arwalden]

1. I'm Afraid I Lost My Marbles...

... many years ago.

-- Allen

[flamingyouth]

2. ooh, ooh, me me!

I have my dad's collection of them. A few years ago I found a slightly chipped (but you can't really see the chips) Waterford crystal "biscuit barrel" at a garage sale, and it's great for the marbles! I love to take them out and look at them and hold them. They are so beautiful. I think they're like looking into tiny, little worlds of their own.

In fact, I'm going to go look at them right now!

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. what a wonderful memory

they were little works of art

I lost my marbles years ago ....

[Lars39]

3. There's a store in Fayettville, TN that literally has tons of marbles

for sale. :)

[Mr. McD]

4. I have a few but

they were my sons. I also lost all of my marbles many years ago.

[oneighty]

6. Yes, SoCalDem.

My beautiful glass marbles are in storage down there in front of the old school house. My Indian Princess in the fifth grade (Joanie) with whom I was madly in love stored them there for me.. They (The marbles) are buried down in the dirt right where she 'STOMPED THEM INTO THE MUD' one day long ago.

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[davidinalameda]

7. try this link

http://www.marbleking.com/home.htm

[SoCalDem]

8. video marble game

I don't really know if it IS a marble game, but they look like marbles to me.. I am terrible at it, but waste a lot of time trying :)


http://www.superdudes.net/games/wrax/pop.php

[tsakshaug]

9. no marbles

don't know where they went. we had a large time in grade school playing. that is until someone decided we couldn't play for keeps! some poor loser bozo lost too many and mommy whined to the school.

[5thGenDemocrat]

10. Finding a few more all the time

As most long time DUers may know, I still live in the house I grew up in. Growing up, my brother Chuck and I played marbles with the neighborhood kids out in the yard and any number of marbles got lost in those years.
Since mom died in 1994, I've been re and re-relandscaping the yard. As dirt is shovelled and earth moved, these same marbles, lost 40 years ago, keep popping up randomly -- but I'm finding a few more each year. They go into a coffee can and I'd guess I've unearthed 50 or so.
The nice thing about living here is that there is no real sense of now. Everything from the time I was 4 until today is "now." I don't feel as though I'm 46 or 26 or 6. This house is a womb and I am one with it. The marbles are just part of that and a little bit of 1963 reappears every time I find one.
John
Of course, I can barely bend over to pick them up any more, but it's reassuring nevertheless.

[trof]

11. Hard down knucks! No fudging!

Oh, lordy. This does take me back.
Steelies and logrollers.
Taws and cat's eyes.
We playin' for fun or for keepsies?
;-)

[SoCalDem]

12. I ALWAYS play for keeps.

I liked seeing the boys CRY..:)