Magic of Making - Glass Marbles

I am a Great Grandma now, but as a young girl, I was the marble Champ! We played at school and couldn't wait for the bell to ring for recess. We kept our marbles in large coffee cans and to this day, when I smell coffee I get a thrill and think of marbles. Planets, Shooters, Aggies, Steelies, Peeries, PeeWee's, Cat's Eyes...we played "for keeps". When you had a "real " marble, it was made of gemstones or real marble. Everyone played marbles, and the playground had marble circles painted on the ground for the brutal games. They were more prized than gold. If we "lost our marbles" we would roll some out of real clay we dug up from the yard. They were tough to make well and sometimes they would shatter. Sometimes, we would heat the plain glass ones in the oven at home and put them in a bowl of cold water to make them crack, then play a game of "shatters". We rarely did this one unless you had won an excess of them. How I miss the days of NO COMPUTERS and kids playing outside from dawn till dusk!!! I have my marbles and played with my grandchildren and great-great nephew & niece!

this guy is a legend 🤣 "the senior blower is back at the glory hole, he has more glass on his rod and has been warming it up because glass blowers have to keep the glass on thier rods hot enough to fiddle with" 🤣🤣🤣 someone give him an award 🏆

"The rod is repeatedly put into the Glory Hole and there's a lot of blowing.." I'm sorry, I'm not grown up enough to not have copious amounts of fun at this.

"The senior blower is back at his glory hole , he has more glass on his rod because glassblowers need to keep the glass on their rods hot enough to fiddle with." How did the narrator get through this without cracking up?

With that much innuendo you could forgive a person for thinking this was satire.

The minute I heard glory hole, I immediately went to the comments, and they did not disappoint

“The senior blower is back at his gloryhole”

2:35 "the senior blower is back at the glory hole, he has more glass on his rod"... Pretty much made my night

"The senior blower is back at his gloryhole" - I spat my coffee.

Came to see how marble was made, stayed for glory hole jokes

The senior blower is back at his glory hole, he has more glass on his rod to fiddle with...the narrator is killing me😂😂😂

It only took a little over 11 years for all of us to meet up at this very moment. Thank you YouTube algorithm. You are as zany and unpredictable as ever.

"The senior blower is back at the glory hole..." Sensual sax music starts playing

I just wanted to watch something innocent and light hearted, I didn't want to laugh out loud at innuendos like 'the master blower returning to his glory hole'.

"The senior blower is back at the glory hole" Form an orderly queue, guys.

"The senior blower is back at the glory hole" As IF they didn't notice... 😂😂

"the senior blower is back at the glory hole"

2:36 "the senior blower is back at the glory hole" come on man, you did that on purpose

I'm 64 and was fascinated from a toddler , how they got that twist of colour in there. I would just hold them and study them in wonder. I was still only a toddler and have now been interested in engineering , physics and answers. In all my years on this planet, I've always come back to that problem. I've had many theories, soon discounted by further thought, and just not knowing. I'm amazed at the things life can throw up. After all of this time , I randomly come across this. I'm stunned and so very happy. I feel like one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe has been unveiled...!