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This is me right after I turned 13, just before I got started in the hobby.
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My parents supported my rocketry activities by driving me to launches and such. They didn't understand it, really, but didn't oppose my participation. But what you describe reminds me of my feelings when I see friends engage with their kids in "geeky" pursuits like computers, D&D games, building electronic kits, and such. A combination of feeling glad that these kids are getting a chance to get in on the fun, and terrible jealousy. |
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Wow. I just discovered this thread. Brilliant box work.
Greg, you're a genius.
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While I was growing up, we made frequent trips to our local hobby shops (both in Miami and in Blairsville or Gainesville, Georgia), where my father bought motors and kits for himself and for me as well. (I also bought my own kits and motors when I had money from various jobs, and my parents let me spend it as I pleased, only suggesting that I figure out the best values before making the purchases.) Also: Being an avid model rocketeer *and* a fireman (and later a Fire Chief) in the 1960s, my father may have been seen as strange by his fellow firemen. But maybe not, since Miami is not terribly far from Cape Canaveral, from which launches were readily visible, and rockets were a subject that was very much "in the air" (no pun intended) then. My father and the other firemen also watched satellites pass overhead in the evenings, and "pilgrimages" to the Cape--as side trips after visiting my mother's parents and extended family in nearby Orange City--were virtually an annual ritual for us. I'm so glad that my parents introduced all of us kids to these things!
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Can't believe this thread escaped me all these years. Great artwork on the box art.
My parents objected to model rockets early on mainly because they thought I could spend my money on something better, but I stuck with it and eventually won my dad over. In hind-site I think there was probably more to it than that since they never objected to my plastic model obsession at the same time. They were probably worried I was going to burn down the house.
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I missed the box art and I've even posted in the thread!
For what it's worth, even though the diamond pack production may have already stopped, my first mail order from a catalog in 1978 had motors shipped in diamond packs, C6-5's IIRC. Prior to that, what little I had came from stores in a larger neighboring town. They were Centuri motors in the white box with red and blue trim, IIRC.
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I have great fondness for the diamond paks and the artwork. It reminds me of the mom and pop hobby shop that I bought from when I first got in to the hobby. I have several diamond paks that I keep on the display pegboard in the hobby room.
I also have a sheet of Astron Igniter blister paks that haven't been separated. When I moved to Greenville, MS for a year (1975) there was a hobby shop with blue and green tube motors. Unfortunately I was on a lawn mowing budget at the time and also didn't know how valuable those would have been. I still have some of the empty tubes. I gave one each to Carl for his collection.
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