Did you go to summer camp as a kid? (1 Viewer)

[Optimus Prime]

She also gained the reputation as someone who could get things. Unbeknownst to me, Costco and I were unwittingly operating as her suppliers for the black market snack cartel she was running after curfew. She was done in by pictures saved to the cloud. She had taken pictures of her ill gotten cash laid out on her bed. Smh.

@livefromDC 's daughter at Summer Camp

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

 

[saintfan-n-alexla]

I went to summer sleep-away camp four times. One of them was a church camp (Camp Hardtner in Grant Parish LA - a somewhat hellish place to be in the summer), two were basketball camps (at colleges) - those were each for just one week. The fourth camp I went to was a two-week camp in the mountains in North Carolina that is probably the most traditional 'summer camp' that I went to.

I enjoyed the basketball camps but they weren't really set-up like the NC summer camp was. - they were all about basketball (drills, games, etc.). And while I have fairly fond memories of that NC summer camp, I didn't "love" it and was unhappy for most of it . . . due to what I now know where logistical failures on the camp's part. But because I did not want to return and I know that people that find a camp they love, they go back every year, I'm pretty sure that I just didn't want to go back.

But yes, it's definitely still a thing! My girls (now rising 4th and 6th graders) are about to have their second year going to summer camp, two weeks at a camp outside of Brevard NC where they ride horses and do crafts and sheet. There are a few all-girls camps in NC that really focus on building confident young ladies, which I think is great. Actually quite a few girls from NOLA/SELA go there. My wife never went to camp so she pretty much put it on me to make it happen, but I have been making it happen and I think my girls enjoy and benefit from it.

i went to Camp Windywood which was very near Camp Hardtner

i recall one year our cabin counselor was the spitting image of Tommy Chong

 

[efil4stnias]

LOL i gotta PAY them to show my kid how to put chicken nuggets into a container w/ a lid?


and btw @guidomerkinsrules if you havent been to the renovated one close to your work, save yourself the trouble. They have butchered that drive thru and pushing more toward app ordering than drive thru ordering and their service has fallen off a cliff.

 

[livefromDC]

That's one way to get around child labor laws. "It's not work, it's camp!" Worked for the NCAA for ages.

 

[superchuck500]

My daughter would be so into that - I’m not even gonna tell her cause she would want to go.

 

[efil4stnias]

And yes i went to St. Andrews summer camp 2 yrs in a row in the 80s. Loved it - it was not an overnight type - just 8 til 3 iirc. But we had so much fun.

My camp counselor was Nick Macaluso and "Bird" ( if you grew up in Algiers, you know who "Bird" is ) - talk about some really cool dudes to a bunch of 12-14 yr olds. Nick played baseball and Bird was a local legend in basketball. But overall just really cool.

Fast forward 30 plus years....im at an insurance convention dinner. A guy and his wife sit across from my wife and I and he introduces himself as "Nick Macaluso" - i pause, and i say "Nick Macaluso from Algiers- Did you ever work as counselor at St Andrews summer camp? "

It was him. lol. Small world.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

LOL i gotta PAY them to show my kid how to put chicken nuggets into a container w/ a lid?


and btw @guidomerkinsrules if you havent been to the renovated one close to your work, save yourself the trouble. They have butchered that drive thru and pushing more toward app ordering than drive thru ordering and their service has fallen off a cliff.

If I went to that one I’d have to wait behind each and every student and their parents to order
It’s a flippin cult

If I need something quick I’ll do Dickey’s (it is what it is)
But usually I prefer to dip into madisonville- Covington trying to be a fancy Metairie has a bit less appeal

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I never *went* to camp but i did work one summer as a counselor at a summer camp in the Pocono mountains outside of New York City when i was 19…. It was an eye opening experience for many reasons .. 95% of the kids were Jewish, and i had very little experience with Judaism or it’s traditions and rituals, so that was kinda cool.. it was also eye opening because these kids were all from wealthy families.. not merely “rich”, I’m talking about wealthy .. i would try to be a nice guy when a kid in my bunk lost a tooth and put a couple dollars under their pillow a la the tooth fairy, but then they’d be disappointed because at home they’d get $20 or $40.. which was a lot to me in 1993 dollars.. one of the kids in my bunk had parents who owned Pathmark, which was the east coast equivalent of Winn Dixie or A&P…. Another kid had grandparents who owned a toy company called Fisher Price.. that’s a true story …. Yet another kid had been on the Cosby Show, which was a huge deal and had only recently gone off the air… I don’t like to call anyone spoiled , but that label definitely applied to most of the kids at this camp.. at the time, i believe it cost $10k per kid to go this 8 week sleepaway camp, and some families had three or four kids at the camp.. on the one day all summer where parents could visit , i got to see an assortment of Rolls Royces and Maseratis and anything else you could imagine.. definitely an experience i wont forget, here i am recounting it over 30 yrs later .

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I never *went* to camp but i did work one summer as a counselor at a summer camp in the Pocono mountains outside of New York City when i was 19…. It was an eye opening experience for many reasons .. 95% of the kids were Jewish, and i had very little experience with Judaism or it’s traditions and rituals, so that was kinda cool.. it was also eye opening because these kids were all from wealthy families.. not merely “rich”, I’m talking about wealthy .. i would try to be a nice guy when a kid in my bunk lost a tooth and put a couple dollars under their pillow a la the tooth fairy, but then they’d be disappointed because at home they’d get $20 or $40.. which was a lot to me in 1993 dollars.. one of the kids in my bunk had parents who owned Pathmark, which was the east coast equivalent of Winn Dixie or A&P…. Another kid had grandparents who owned a toy company called Fisher Price.. that’s a true story …. Yet another kid had been on the Cosby Show, which was a huge deal and had only recently gone off the air… I don’t like to call anyone spoiled , but that label definitely applied to most of the kids at this camp.. at the time, i believe it cost $10k per kid to go this 8 week sleepaway camp, and some families had three or four kids at the camp.. on the one day all summer where parents could visit , i got to see an assortment of Rolls Royces and Maseratis and anything else you could imagine.. definitely an experience i wont forget, here i am recounting it over 30 yrs later .

Otoh
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[Mr. Blue Sky]

Otoh
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What a country …

 

[Rickboy]

I went to Camp Chi-yo-ka (sp??) near Downsville a couple times. Fun times.

 

[Sailorsaint]

Ya gotta prepare 'em to be able to pay off that Bachelor's Degree in Political Science.

 

[Saintman2884]

Ahh, the Cosby Show just after it lost its couple-years ratings war with The Simpsons as the show had become old, stale, formulaic, predictable and lost a lot of its earlier charm and wit by the early 90's?

Those were the days when rumors of Bill Cosby's bad, unrestrained sexual assaults, doxxing and date-raping all going back to the late 60's were still being whispered, rumored and suggested about like they were semi-open secrets, like Harvey Weinstein's atrocious, ugly disgusting behavior was going on in Hollywood circles like one, big, toxic "open secret" and nothing was ever done to punish, censor or hold them accountable until a comedian one night in 2014 (Hannibal Burress) finally said the quiet part out loud on-stage in not so compromising language and Weinstein was exposed by two, hard-working, enterprising and pushy NYT investigative reporters in late 2016/early 2017.

I had heard a few whispers, here and there before 2016 about some of Weinstein's criminal or deviant behavior or that he had a bit of "sinister" reputation, but honestly, Bill Cosby's fall from grace and banishment, imprisonment didn't really shock or surprise me because their had been so many rumors, stories from so many women that had come out since the 1990's at least that any half-way logical person could deduce, or rationalize that some, if not most of these claims, had to have had some legitimacy, large aspects of truth to them.

Then again, if #MeToo had existed in the 1920's and 30's, the openly misgyonist, sexist "fratboy" mentality shown and displayed by actors/producers/directors like Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. wouldve ruined and destroyed their careers beyond repair. Chaplin even kind of conceded he was a callous, authoritian, creepy prick in a round-about way, as a younger man in his autobiography while in exile in Switzerland that "their were things he did and engaged in that if he ever confessed up to, it would destroy him asunder"

 

[Saintman2884]

Their are worse, more outrageous places they couldve sent or taken those kids that would shocked most peoples minds then just watching how Chick-fil-A workers go through their routines on daily shifts? When I was at a summer camp in the mid-late 80's, every summer or two, some of the camp counselors convinced a local McDonald's franchise owner and manager to allow us to walk behind the counters after the morning rush had ended and they showed us 7-and-8 year olds how the different breakfast and lunch foods were made? I could handle witnessing how workers behind the scenes at McDonald's make pancakes, sausages, bacon, egg and cheese biscuits, hash browns then having my lungs polluted traveling to a local International Paper mill plant or somehow get exposed to abtesos and feeling sorry for overworked, rubroy workers at a plant that made poisoned, chemically-laced shingles for decades in a huge, nearby neighborhood, that got shot down by the FDA and EPA regulators and its owners were sued for hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements two decades later in the mid-late 2000's?