Just another buggy whip?
 

Talk about obsolete, I came across this in an old tool box I hadn't opened in years. Wonder if the Smithsonian is interested or should I just file it with my other buggy whips??http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1183086969.jpg

I have a couple of old glass bottles that were used years ago with engine oil. Some interesting memorabilia that we hang onto...

Me and my tire store/gas station buddy were talking about those spouts last week. Don't know how many thousands of cans I stuck with one (enough to wear out several). It was in the era of metal tops and cardboard sides, once in a while you'd collapse a side and have a minor mess.
Jim

Used those old quart jars with the screw on spout many times back on the farm in the late 50's and early 60's. Would fill them using a hand pump from a barrel of motor oil. Wish I had grabbed a couple of them when my grandfather died....

Boy, you guys are old.......


(I remember them too)

I was telling Our Kids about the ol days - they have no clue what a chalk board is (replaced by a white board) or a TV antenna (replaced by cable) or a dial phone (replaced by a touch tone). I guess we should spend more time in antique shops!

I wonder what else will be obsolete in the next decade - hope it ain't me...

Anyone got a bottle opener?

Yeah. On the bottom of my Reefs flip-flops. Only place you ever see them now.

What is that?

forgot the ;)

AKA a "church key" ??

:D

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you mean stuff like this?

Funny thing is that my XJ Jag was in storage for about 22 years while I was overseas. A friend had it in his garage and drove it until the rear end had a problem.

When I started pulling it apart to restore it found an old can of Castol oil. Its the paper can with the metal top. Its being saved and someday will be worth sticking in a restored garage.

Maybe I can talk Jim or 74-911 out of one of those spouts to stick with it! :)

You to can be obsolete, just try 25 years experience in COBOL..
That's dinosaur territory.

:D

The list of things today's HS graduates know nothing about is HUGE. I know a substitute teacher who likes to throw terms at them, to see if anybody has any idea what that term means. They are usually stumped. One of the terms she throws at them is "Datsun."

When I was a boy, we had black and white TV and if I wanted to change the channel I'd have to get up walk over to the TV and mechanically change the channel and stand there and see if I wanted to watch that station.

My daughter asked what a typewriter was? Another thing which I always thought was strange: My grandpa used to gargle with kerosene to get rid of his sore throat...Damn!..Never got any type of stomache or throat issues...

someone needs to buy better beer;)
used one last night, will use it again after walking the dog after i get home. mounted on the side of the kitchen counter. which reminds me i have to find my spare one an mount it in the garage.

I should clarify... I meant one of those bottle openers that has a can opener on the other end... I actually have one kicking around in a kitchen drawer. On a strange note you ever notice that most corkscrews can double as a bottle opener?

I think I also have some cardboard cans of castoil in the garage. I know an antique store in Pasadena that has about a half dozen typewriters, I'm thinking of buying one as an object de art.

oh one of those....last used it the last time i made bloddy mary's. been a few months though. can bring myself to use that premixed stuff. dad loves tomato juice so his is out all the time.

sounds like i may need to make some to get the 4th off on the right note.;)

LOL, I use to own a Datson King cab pick up. I loved that truck!! If she really wants to mess with the kids heads, have her bring a 8-Track in and ask them what it is:D While auto-crossing a buddies 70s Vett (complete with 8-track & tapes) I asked one of the guys kids if he knew what it was (a new type of video tape, LOL) His look was priceless when I popped it in and he heard that 1st Clunk :eek:

My bottle opener is riveted to a small magnet. It lives on the refrigerator door. It is the old fashioned kind, with a bottle opener at one end and a can opener at the other end. Some day, somebody's going to ask the purpose of the sharp end.

I recall when aluminum cans came on the market.

I can also recall when there were three network channels and one PBS, a grand total of four channels no matter what equipment you had. Reception was grainy. TV was B&W. I could "see" the colors in my mind. Creature Feature. Midnight Special. Dark Shadows. Gilligan. Beaver. Mr. Ed.

I can also remember when it was virtually impossible to put $5 of gasoline in a vehicle, and the tanks were all twenty gallons.

Wally, take it easy on the beaver...

I loved Creature Feature!!!

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When I bought my street 914 a few months ago, I took my daughter for a ride for the first time. She got in and I said put the window down. She looked at the door and looked at me and said, "How?" She's never cranked a window down before.

Remember when tennis ball were white?

Most everything I have is old. My feather pillows must be 60-70, my quilt closer to 90. my lastest model car is 33 and the oldest 70. Below are pics of a potato masher and a lemon squeezer that must be 70-80 yrs old. I'd bet very few here have seen one of those. I've got WAY too much old stuff like this.
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Johnco, we actually use one of those strainer things to make the applesauce for the big Thanksgiving dinner! (well, I shouldn't use "we", my frau does the hard work!) My father-in-law is an antiques guy and we have all kinds of that stuff too.