I recently discovered two items that I hadn't laid eyes on in years and years.

First was an old Zippo slim lighter


And then this Celtic - Saint Patrick themed silver ring I was gifted with by a girl I befriended in London in 1972. Slipped it on my pinky finger for giggles.




Damn I'm old!

Nice memories bald1 !!!

Found an old coke bottle and three marbles under and around the old shed out back.
Someone left them there decades ago for me I guess.
Times were much simpler in those days ... and summers were endless.

While going through boxes in my basement I found a bunch of Micro Machines I played with when I was little. I probably put a million miles on those cars. It put a smile on my face.

Mrs. SigFan and I were going through some boxes in the garage last weekend, and among the objects from my childhood was a blue plastic toy gun that shoots disks about the size of a nickel. It still works and I still have probably 30 or 40 “rounds” for it. Also a couple of G.I Joe’s from the early 1970’s.

An M7 Bayonet I received yesterday, bought here in the Classifieds.

Haven't touched one in at least 30 years, they went with the M9 right around that time.

I was running through the woods in Ft. Jackson SEP 87, screaming about the blood making the grass grow, stabbed the dummy, lost my balance and snapped the M7 in two. To my relief, the only thing I didn't get in trouble for in basic

I’m cleaning out and packing up my house I’ve lived in for thirty years, so I have run across quite a few things lately that I had forgotten I had. One that made me smile is my Jade 8 Solid State pocket radio. It is still in the carry case with wrist strap. My Dad bought each of us girls one when we were pretty little and we took them everywhere with us. It must be somewhere between fifty and fifty five years old.

I was rummaging through a box ‘o stuff the other day looking for some paperwork and I came across the ‘Aristo’ stopwatch that my dad used for our little league basketball teams that he always coached.

It is a wind-up and it still works. It’s probably at least 55 or 56 years old or so. It also has the leather neck lanyard he used.

Really GREAT memories!!

I rediscovered my old stamp collection I started back about 1955. That hobby only lasted until I discovered girls and then it just went to the storage box like "Puff the Magic Dragon".

(Note: I started to say an old girlfriend I ran into from about 60 years ago, but both her looks and my memories of her didn't age nearly as well as my old stamps!)

I have a Darda Buggy currently parked atop my gun safe...I got it as a Christmas gift when I was maybe seven or eight....still works. I have very few items from my childhood....it would fit in a shoebox. But this little toy helps me connect to those days of little worry and carefree fun...

My first camera for my first newspaper job.

In January I purchased my dad's 1985 GMC K1500 High Sierra from its current owner. I hadn't seen it in 18 years when my dad sold it to the guy after buying a newer truck, which I now own after he passed away in January 2019. I had mailed the owner a letter on a whim wondering if he still had it and he contacted me shortly afterwards and sent some pics.

It was worse for wear but not terrible. Seeing those pictures brought back a flood of memories. The deer it hauled, the Boy Scout campouts it went on, learning to drive in my uncle's field with it, the mulch it hauled for my Eagle Scout project, moving me to and from college. My son and I rented a U-Haul trailer and drove back to Missouri and bought it and towed it 4 hours home. It was sick but made it onto the trailer on its own power. It still had the shitty Jensen $20 Wal-Mart stereo I put in it. Its at a mechanic on an extended R&R. I don't know what I'll do with 2 pickups, but I had to save her.

This gold band. Fairly good memories for 20 out of 25 years. The last 5 of those years were not so good. Thank god she is 20 years in my rear view but still have to run into her now and again due to the kids and grandkids. Not so bad now.

The only Hot Wheel I ever saved. A 'Boss Hoss' Mustang. Not my pic, I ran across mine a couple of months ago and I'm pretty sure I wont see it for another several months. This stuff makes you realize again just how much freedom you had as a kid in the sixties and seventies.

London in 72 ???

I was there then stationed in West Ruislip working out of Heathrow.

Bob

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Originally posted by rbert0005:
London in 72 ???

I was there then stationed in West Ruislip working out of Heathrow.

Bob,

Nope, not military related. I had treated myself to a vacation and stayed there longer than I expected (several months).

As an aside my military service periods were
--Army 1966-1972
--Navy 1974-1999

Plugged in to the wall in my kitchen. 1917 Phone is excellent working order.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:
The only Hot Wheel I ever saved. A 'Boss Hoss' Mustang...

Cool!

I have that very same Mustang sitting on my radio next to the turntable.

After our Mom's death several years ago, the family was getting the house ready for auction. My 40yo son came down from the attic carrying an old cigar box filled with all the knives that my brothers & I had "lost" when we were kids.

The box was overflowing with old Barlows, electrician knives, scout knives, etc. Some with our initials crudely scratched on the handles. My brothers & I all looked at them for a while, then gave them to my son. Finders, keepers. Which was Mom's motto too.

A Wayne Divco milk truck. I was a helper on one when I was 14-17 years old. You could drive the truck standing up, or sitting down. There was no refrigeration, we iced the milk down.