Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: amertrac on January 01, 2012, 09:43:26 AM
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how many members can say that they have lived in
the
30's
40's
50's
60's
70's
80's
9o's
200o's
bob w.
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i lived in the 90's... 1990 to be exact :P
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I didn't get on board until51
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Me 2. Arrived in 51
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1944, but I don't remember much until the 50's.
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1969 here...
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Ahh...the decades of history...
40's ..The Germans can make it cheaper
50's ...The Brits can make it better
60's...We can make it here in communes while stoned.
70's...Japs can make it cheaper
80's... Singapore can make it faster
90's...China can make it cheaper
00's... the Mexicans can't make it at any price.
10's How come we have no jobs?
Tsk,Tsk ....
I was here in the 60's, but I don't remember them....
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I'm with Johnsironsanctuary 6, Dec 1944 to be exact.
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Ive only been through the 90's and 00's
I was born in 94, the 14th of november to be specific.
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40's
50's
60's
70's
80's
9o's
200o's
Since 1942.
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how many members can say that they have lived in
the
60's
70's
80's
9o's
200o's
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Didn't get started till 1945.
Dad was at Guadalcanal and mom was a "Rosie the Riveter".
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1943..........here
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Touched down in an Air Force hospital Nov 28, 1947 in Uchito Mari, Okinawa, just outside of Naha.
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1942, here
Ray
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Alive in all of them.
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Me. Conceived in 1938 in Ventnor, NJ.
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Just the Fifties onward, still try to block out the 70s. But, my father was born in 1911, and made sure I knew about working with horses, fixing harness, driving Model T Fords, seeing the revenooers tear up a neighbors still, not going anywhere without tire chains and log chains, the red dirt clouds of the dust bowl, riding on freights, The New Deal, Pearl Harbor, VJ day, selling apples on street corners, running from railroad bulls, getting electricity on the farm, getting indoor plumbing, and just trying to make do with what you got.
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1950 forward for me. I remember the 1950's fondly. Still have a thing for all things 1950s. Still own a 1952 Chevrolet pickup. Still own a 1950s vintage phone. Still married to a 1952 vintage wife. Have acquired many 1950s tools.
You get the picture...
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Lauver, I also have a 52 vintage wife- carried her off as a twenty year old after getting permission from her mother and father!
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'63 for me.
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couchspring,,,,,,,,,, what a catchy name bob w.
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50's but I'm pretty sure everyone thinks I was born yesterday....
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50's but I'm pretty sure everyone thinks I was born yesterday....
yeah , I was born during the day but not yesterday lol bob w.
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Lauver, I also have a 52 vintage wife- carried her off as a twenty year old after getting permission from her mother and father!
papaw,
What are the odds??? You don't supose we could be married to the same gal do you?
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I don't know- was she a Beatles-loving flower child half hippie young chick with a Cajun momma?
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Born in 1971.
Remember the late 70's till now.
Atari 2600 kid lol
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56 Model
Etch-A-Sketch kid !!
Brian L.
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1943 Here
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January 1949 for me.
EvilDr235
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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
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I don't know- was she a Beatles-loving flower child half hippie young chick with a Cajun momma?
Yes, except mom from Oklahoma.
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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!!!
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Shhhhh!!!!!!!!!
Amertrac thinks he is buying new tools.
Don't disillusion him....
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As soon as he goes to sleep, he'll forget all about it. :)
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Sure glad you didn't put me in that ooooooollllddd group!
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Did they have months and years back then ? or was it before that?
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Papaw, you're old. Just not as many O's.
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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.
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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.
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MrChuck, you old timers must get pretty nostalgic when you see a rock. Never forget your first tool. :)
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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!
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I KNEW IT. I KNEW IT. :)
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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.
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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.
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Quote...........Sure would like to get down to Ft Myers to see him..............There really isnt anythimg much more important than doing that asap if you were close to him.
quote.............For anyone that's in favor of sticking it to the gov't, Grandpa's been drawing an army pension since 1965.................Now thats what I like to hear first thing in the A.M This will be a good day, thanks
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Didn't spot any other 1941's in the thread, so I'll chime in and claim that year as the starting point for a member of Tool Talk...
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Wrenchmensch: conceived 1938 Ventnor, NJ; born August 10, 1939.