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In SoCal, we would dissapear for hours into the flood control district land behind our house. It was like a park between Baseline and and Canyon View in La Verne.

In Naperville, my subdivision (Brookwood Trace) was still very much under construction. All of the top soil had been scraped up and put into two huge (like 75' tall) piles. They were sled hills in the winter and BMX bike courses in the summer. There was also forest in the subdivision. We would raid the scrap piles from the houses under construction and build forts...