way off topic

[amecks]

Starting 1952...
50's
60's
80's
90's
00's
10-12
I didn't forget the 70's but I'm trying to...!
Al

[lauver]

I don't know- was she a Beatles-loving flower child half hippie young chick with a Cajun momma?

Yes, except mom from Oklahoma.

[m_fumich]

Here's what I get from this thread.

Amertrac, MrChuck, and wrenchmensch are OOOOOOLD. It's bad when a vintage tool collector is older than most of his collection. LMAO!!!

[rusty]

Shhhhh!!!!!!!!!

Amertrac thinks he is buying new tools.

Don't disillusion him....

[m_fumich]

As soon as he goes to sleep, he'll forget all about it. :)

[Papaw]

Sure glad you didn't put me in that ooooooollllddd group!

[rusty]

Did they have months and years back then ? or was it before that?

[m_fumich]

Papaw, you're old. Just not as many O's.

[m_fumich]

Did they have months and years back then ? or was it before that?

Back then, the first two months of the year were Ugh and Ugh Ugh.

[mrchuck]

I like finding tools that I remember as a young boy who was just learning from his uncle and father. That helped me in repairing all sorts of things as I grew up, and always had a job that paid, even through college.

[m_fumich]

MrChuck, you old timers must get pretty nostalgic when you see a rock. Never forget your first tool. :)

[mrchuck]

I remember when I had a morning paper route for the Dallas Morning News, and the bundles came wrapped tight with wire, like bailing wire.
I kept 2 rocks by the lamp post, on the corner, where they drooped my papers off.
I kept 2 rocks at the base of this street light.
I would slide one rock under the wire and hit the taught wire with the other rock.
Broke the wire every time!

[m_fumich]

I KNEW IT. I KNEW IT. :)

[Wrenchmensch]

Old, yes.  I defended you guys from the Russians. Facts: during my ACDUTRA years I was stationed at Ft. Richardson, Alaska. My job was to test the fuels, hydraulic fluids, and lubricants that were used by our F-106 interceptors when they scrambled to intercept Russian fights overflying the Russian-American border.  We played the same game, and we kept our guys from flameouts over Russian territory. We also kept the generators and heaters going at each of the DEW-line sites, so the guys there could give us early warning about a massive Russian air attacks. The Russians knew this, and stayed home.

None of this is real to someone who was not sentient during the Cold War times., I know. I offer it as an indication of how old one can be and still collect tools.

[m_fumich]

My grandfather, who will be 90 in 6 weeks, got to play up there in the snow too. He was XO over the American detachment at Ft Churchill, Manitoba, Canada from 1957 to 1959. They put scientific instrument packages on rockets and sent them into the edges of space during the Aurora Borealis to see how the radiation would affect radio communication. NASA needed that info before sending men into space.

I haven't talked to Grandpa in quite a while. Sure would like to get down to Ft Myers to see him.

For anyone that's in favor of sticking it to the gov't, Grandpa's been drawing an army pension since 1965.