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• yeah,that was me who asked.. what happened was that one day while taking the 25 home from fullrton college i met this kid whith a huge box of superballs.. they were all dated 1965, as someone interested in old toys i asked about them and he gave me a s many as i could carry and told me wher they were. that sunday my father and i went out to the train tracks, and we did find alot of them scattered around , but not the "mother lode" the next day i walked over with some freinds from fcc and what we saw was amazing.. a sea of superballs, mostly greenish blue ones, and all sizes, some red ones too.. there were people standing knee deep just filling boxes and boxes with them. the next day it was in the register, and i remember the picture...but i can't remember what they say had happened..

  By  Anonymous, at July 02, 2006 9:55 PM  

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• Finally! The answer to a mystery I've wondered about for years.... I went to Acacia Elementary School to play tennis against the backboard and found HUNDREDS of Super Balls all over the playground, of all sizes, all marked 1965. These were just like the ones we had growing up, not the wimpy wannabees that followed. I went home and got a brown grocery bag (from Alpha Beta, natch) and picked up as many as I could find and took them home. What a find! Remember just having ONE of the giant Super Balls as a kid was such a treat. The bag has long ago disappeared.... lost in a divorce I suspect. I've always wondered where the windfall came from... kinda like Pennies From Heaven! thanks for clearing up the mystery.

  By  Anonymous, at September 07, 2006 9:14 AM  

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  that was amazing,,, i am 29 years old right now and when the super ball factory blew up in fullerton i was in 5th grade or so ,,, iit was amazing , i went to school one day and a bunch of kids had a bunch of superballs ,, and then after school we went out searching and we found them all over the east fullerton neighborhood near brookhurst and commonwealth ,,, thousands of them in the street gutters, all over the rail road tracks, we ffilled a shopping cart full of them,,, it really was amazing,,, i mean the super ball factory exploded,,,, truthfully i dont know if it was a factory or if it actually exploded , but there were massive amounts of superballs all over the neighborhood,,,,, and can you imagine what the play ground looked like the next day.... boing everykid at fern drive elementary school had an unlimited supply of free 2 inch green superballs ,,, they were flying everywhere ,,, and then i remember the school banned having super balls at school ,,, these were big and heavy for the most part , really did have some serious bounce,,, and they were flying all over ,, i am sure some kids got nailed with them ,,, but for the most part it was amazing , and i will never forget that chapter in my childhood,,, THE SUPER BALL FACTORY EXPLODED,,,,,
  
  
  that is amazing...

  By  Anonymous, at April 15, 2007 5:21 PM  

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• I went to Troy High School when this happened. I remember one of my friends took his Ford F250 over and filled the bed full of the superballs. He pulled into the quad just before lunch and dumped them all. It was the craziest day with superballs flying all over. We must have found them for the next few months in the bushes and all. I still have one and am waiting for my son to be old enough to give it to him.

  By  Anonymous, at July 07, 2007 3:49 PM  

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• Hey guys... maybe this will help :)
  
  http://superballs.com/my_superball_history.htm
  
  Rick / Superballs.com

  By  Anonymous, at November 05, 2007 6:37 PM  

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• I was there, and I still have a whole bag of them.....the factory didn't blow up......it was demolished......they tore it down with bulldozers......barrels and barrels of superballs.......Like I said, I've got atleast a couple hundred in my attic....

  By  Anonymous, at November 10, 2007 12:30 AM  

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• I remember this, too. I had heard that there was an explosioin, too and later heard about the demolition. I must have been in grade school at the time as well. Funny how news like that traveled back then without the internet.

  By  Rob, at December 06, 2007 5:08 PM  

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