Heh. I can still remember being one of gazillions of people on the Mall in 1982 watching the Beach Boys and the fireworks. The Metro crowds were so big that the turnstiles were locked open and riders threw their money into 50-gallon barrels supervised by security guards.DW and I rode Capitol Bike Share bikes down to the National Mall and caught the fireworks. Very nice. The concert underway at the Capitol looked like fun as well.
donheff said:DW and I rode Capitol Bike Share bikes down to the National Mall and caught the fireworks. Very nice. The concert underway at the Capitol looked like fun as well.
We were at our weekend place on the tidal Potomac over the weekend. There were tons of private fireworks down there. Seemed like normal to me. Since a lot of the people down there are weekenders, the fireworks were big on Sunday night.We saw some of that on TV and I said "I bet that's the best one in the country.
We started on the thirty mile trip to the local fireworks, but it looked like fog was coming in so we turned around.
I noticed very few private fireworks and fireworks stands thus year. Is it the economy?
Yes, our city's show went on as planned, though they had to apply for an exemption to the county-wide ban. They were shooting over water and the assumption was that a city show set off by professionals, with firefighters at the ready, might discourage some amateur yahoos from setting them off themselves and starting fires.No fireworks down here in the parched southwest. Sales were banned statewide and all but a handful of professional fireworks displays were canceled. They were granted permission only if the launch and landing area was over water. Not much of that around these parts....
When I was a pretty little kid we took a trip to Smoky Mountains National Park. My little brother and I saved our dough and bought a brick of 1 1/2ers at a gas station we stopped at somewhere in Tennessee or someplace. We hid it under the back seat and returned home as the neighborhood heroes. I still remember setting up elaborate army men formations and using the firecrackers to blow up enemy emplacements - heaven. Needless to say, fireworks were illegal in Chicago.I love fireworks. We grew up in upstate NY where fireworks were illegal. Only the cop's kids had them. We used to go on vacation to the Virginian eastern shore (Chincoteague -- where I met my wife in '71) and the family would stop by the fireworks stands there. We kids would save our money for six months and spent it all on fireworks.