Childhood Indy memories

[Nurhachi1991]

well ever since I was 5 years old I have been an Indy fan. I was going through some old pictures and found one of me at age 6 dressed as Indy it was halloween at school I remember.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/rockybalboa91/DSC00115.jpg


Bad quality I know

but I had my black cheap whip,pirate pistol,cheap fedora and rubber snake! I even had a drawn on beard.




Do you guys have pics as you as kids.

[DocWhiskey]

Thats so cool, Nurhachi. Your costume was more accurate then mine when i was a kid. Really cool to see.

I wore an old black jean jacket, a white v neck t-shirt, blue jeans, my grandpa's old gray fedora and I'd loop a belt around the loop of my jeans as a "whip".

My grandma's living room was HUGE, so that'd be my "temple" where I'd have my various adventures. I'd take this clear oversized piece of dice and put it under a lit flashlight like it was the macguffin.

Then when my cousin would come over, she'd be Marion and we'd have a good story going lol. I remember one time she was captured by the "bad guys" and I went to rescue her and I swear I was fighting invisible nazis for at least 15 minutes. I remember my cousin being "bored" as I rescued her lol. But you know what? it was a damn good fight scene.

[The_Raiders]

You know I never knew much of Indy as a kid, but I do remember when I was very little watching the trilogy becasue I can recall the monkeys brains, and the opening of the ark scaring me to death :p , and I can vagly recall playing on the front porch using a dirty old rope as a whip and an old brown cowboy hat for my "fedora", but I don't know, Indy just never stuck with me as a little kid :( .

[Spalkomania]

I never dressed up like Indy but I did have a Raiders t-shirt when i was a kid. It was red with the Raiders of the Lost Ark logo, and beneath that there was a picture of the flying wing.

[Indy fan 235]

Indy has been in my life ever since I saw ROTLA as a kid. It was on VHS when I first saw it, back when VCRs were still so new not everyone had them. My parents weren't home one night and my aunt and uncle were watching us at their house. They had this converted attic to a family room, and it was there that I first saw Indy. My uncle put the movie in, and from the second the Paramont logo morphed into that mountain I was hooked. I remember the second the film ended I turned to my uncle and asked if we could watch it again. He let us. On the second viewing I didn't make it very far before falling asleep, but that was it. I was hooked from then on.

I remember when TOD came out and being so jealous of Short Round. I wanted to be Indy's side kick. At this point everyone who know me knew I was an Indy nut. I had this big scrapbook going of Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford. A few of the cards my Raiders figures came on were in that scrapbook and thanks to that I still have them. I remember being in the 4th grade and having a TOD metal lunchbox. My aunt for my birthday gave me Belloq, Cairo Swordman, German Mechanic and the horse as presents. I found the Indy as a German officer figure at a 5 and 10 store now long, long gone.

It was years later that I finally got my Indy figure from the Raiders line. I traded a kid in the school yeard two bags of onion rings for it. Best deal I ever made.

For Halloween I went as Indy a few years, putting together a costume from whatever I could find in the house. It didn't look authentic, but to a 12 year old kid I felt like Indiana Jones.

In 1989 when LC came out I saw the film 6 times in the theatre. I remember going to the Disney MGM Studios and seeing the stunt show for the first time and spending my graduation money there. Two years later we went back on a family vacation and I spent over $200 in the store again.

I made Indy films in high-school, nothing great, but just having fun with my friends. My senior year of high-school my sister for Christmas got me the Indiana Jones 12 inch doll I had always wanted. The only time I ever came close to getting that as a kid was once in Toys R Us but the box was opened and the hat missing. For Christmas this was my favorite present. It was out of the box and missing the hat, but the gun and whip were there and it was all mine.

Over the years I collected Indy stuff when I could find it. Indiana Jones was my hero growing up. Having a weird relationship with my father, I always saw Harrison Ford as a father figure. It would be years later when I was able to get his autograph, and though I didn't have a chance to talk to him, it was one of the best moments of my life.

Indy always had a special place in my life and he always will.