June 3, 2009


Stilts | Rick and Robb Neece

Once Daddy built us boys, my brother and I, a pair of stilts each. (How old were we?) As I recall, they were simply constructed of onebytwos with triangles of twobyfour attached for the stirrups. One pair with the height set at about 18 inches, the other pair at about 36 inches. Daddy showed us how to walk with them–hands low, at pants-pocket height, the uprights coming up inside our elbows and behind our shoulders. We used the side of the house to lean against as we stepped up and on. Within a few minutes, we were quite capable with them. Within a couple days, we could practically run. We would pull them out whenever friends, cousins, relatives came over. Somewhere in the world there’s a photograph of GrandDad Rickey standing on them, rock steady, stock still, in the middle of our backyard.

Originally posted by Rick Neece as a Remembery. October 2, 2007.

posted by Sheila Ryan in adventure, family, memory 

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7 Responses to “Stilts | Rick and Robb Neece”

  1. Coop on June 3rd, 2009 at 8:12 am

    Sweet.

  2. scream 62,5 on June 3rd, 2009 at 8:38 am

    I remember stilts too,about 1969

    First i thought it will not work, later i was even running and dancing with them,
    today you will only find a computer game …”super stilts,shoot them.”…

  3. Sheila Ryan on June 3rd, 2009 at 9:06 am

    Dancing on stilts!

  4. scream 62,5 on June 3rd, 2009 at 9:50 am

    ok,it was a small,more like a little “traditional “dance,
    but i was running ,not only going fast
    and all the cute girls come around to have my stilts for some minutes,
    i was in a nice position..

  5. Sheila Ryan on June 3rd, 2009 at 10:57 am

    A traditional German stilt dance!

  6. Phil Bebbington on June 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 am

    Lars, you are a man of many talents. It would seem that the art of stilt walking/dancing knows no bounds.

    I don’t dance off of stilts so I’m certainly not trying to dance on them.

  7. scream 62,5 on June 3rd, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    Later on i was more a kind of wild dancer in a legendary club in hamburg,
    some “normal” people, some hells angels are there…

    i never seen a fight there, never had a problem with this “hard guys”
    they play zeppelin, purple..

    i liked some of the newer like this-at home i loved to hear elliot smith,
    so i liked both…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtWNSfXhdPM

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