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I have 3 antique 1gal mason jars filled with my hard won pre-1970 marbles, all sizes, painted, clearsies, croakers, cats eyes, with a few clay and ball bearings thrown in. Unfortunately, destined for eBay or a yard sale one of these days. They made for a pretty decoration over the last ~55 years.

I have 3 antique 1gal mason jars filled with my hard won pre-1970 marbles, all sizes, painted, clearsies, croakers, cats eyes, with a few clay and ball bearings thrown in. Unfortunately, destined for eBay or a yard sale one of these days. They made for a pretty decoration over the last ~55 years.

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I went to school with niggers in the early 90's.

Marbles were never popular.

Oddly enough, spinning tops were extremely popular. The wood sort with string you pull to spin.

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You spun dreidels with niggers? That sounds culturally enriching.

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My origin story is filled with Niggers and Jews.

Quite frankly, I don't understand how most of you came to hate them.

I think all of you good Poalsters came to find Niggers and Jews distasteful via theory; you saw them in the media or read about their wrong-doing online.

I spent most of my formative years around niggers and kikes. The elementary school I went to was 90% nigger. After I left their, I went to a private Jr. High that was probably 80% kike.

I came to dislike them from practical experience.

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I don't know about most of the people on poal, but I've had plenty of personal experience with both niggers (behaving violently/loudly/childishly) and kikes (generally conniving and trying to screw me over on business dealings).

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I got sent to a half black school for middle school.

GOOD TIMES

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You and I have similar backstories, and viewpoints, though I don't hate blacks, just much of their post millenial culture. They really embraced Thug Life, and this 3rd generation coming up under that umbrella is taking it's toll....

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No nigs at my elementary, most last names were of english or irish decent. Saw my first nig in High School, was a couple grades behind me.

The small metal 6 pronged things (were they called jacks?) Were kind of popular. You would stand one on end, held in place by placing your finger on it to keep it standing, then flick with the index finger of the other hand to make it spin and release. They would spin for under a minute before they wobbled and tipped over. We were easily entertained. Super Balls, big wheels, super elastic bubble plastic, knockers all came out about the time I was coming of age so I missed out.

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We played marbles back in my elementary school as well. The school (and township) were named after a German city, and the majority of the surnames were of German & Slavic descent. 100% White.

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Not really, no - mid-80's to mid-90's kid.

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I played in the 80s. My bf played in middle school which for him would have been the 90s. He's from TX and I would have been playing in NC. Wonder if area has to do with it?

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Wonder if area has to do with it?

Maybe. The rural areas might have kept interest in it longer. I don't know how long kids kept playing it here. So many cool toys were coming out at the time, marbles probably looked pretty dull.

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Yea we played some game where you tried to hit tin soldiers with marbles. Late 80s.

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I dpn't remember playing that game as a kid. What we played in the mid-late '60s was just with marbles and a hole in the dirt that we made by rotating our heel into the ground and smoothing off the displaced dirt. There would be a line in the dirt about 15 feet away where we would pitch the marbles from. To move the marble closer to the hole you could either use your foot (tapped by the other foot) or your index finger bent like an "L" to hit the marble into the hole. But marbles are marbles, so they were still alive in the late 1980s. Many Chinese checkers games used marbles too.

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really a question? pacman or whatever that game was with it going to and forth.

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PacMan came out when I was in college. Ms PacMan after college IIRC. When I was in school we had old style pinball machines instead, and most weren't the latest and greatest. Mechanical scorekeepers.

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wtf was that first game? you know when it just went back and forth. and you had to align your paddle.

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Pong?

Space Invaders?

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The Principal Banned marbles, Click Clacks and Yo-Yo's at our school in 1974.

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Evil ToyGrabber. Did they dare to go after squirt guns?

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Heck No! That would be Communist!

But soon they came after our Lawn darts and Water Wiggle...

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Grew up inner-city Cleveland in the early 80's and played Jacks as well as Marbles. Then I moved to Ca around '85, and never saw those games again.

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Nope. Played with them but never the actual game

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In the early 80s, I played almost daily in the first and second grade. My family moved and nobody was playing at my new school. I taught people how to play, gave them some marbles to get started and encouraged them to buy some. They did. When I started winning all of their good marbles, they got pissed, called me a "cheater" and refused to play against me because they didn't want to lose their marbles. I stopped playing and then it just kind of went away.

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Yes, sure did. I remember early 70's practically the entire school playing at lunch.