Old Enough To Remember?

dwalby said:
those aren't nearly as old as beer cans that required a can opener, remember those? I was just a young kid, but I remember my dad opening them.

I think the oil cans made it into the early '80s, the beer cans were done by the early '60s.
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Ahhh yes . . . Church Keys! They also worked on oil cans, soup cans!

Shuey
 
P-38 (Link)… still have a bunch in my workshop junk drawer, and one in my onboard tool kit. Even have an aftermarket version that’s twice the original’s size; much easier on the fingers.

Re: church keys… still have a few. Every now and then I have to use the other end to pop a cap off an old-fashioned manufacturer’s bottle of niche soda or craft beer. Years ago I spent a weekend across the border camping at a Canadian skydive center, impressing a bunch of drunk new friends that I could just twist the cap off a bottle of the American beer we’d brought north (new twist-top design). A few of them cut their hands on their Moosehead bottles trying to be manly and emulate us, before finally catching on. It was a great time around the campfire; and jumping with the Canadians… first time they’d seen one of the new ram-air parachutes; mine was one of the first commercial versions (actually, the third prototype of Steve Snyders’ ”ParaPlane”).

I’m enjoying this thread a lot. Like on the other forum, this feels like a fun STOC gathering parking lot or campfire tire-kicking session. OTOH, I’m noticing that the demographics of this group is certainly tending toward the “senior”/“baby-boomer” cohort of riders. ;)

Keep’m coming….

John STOC 1058 (… where did the STOC emoji go..?)
 
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I remember stealing my little sister's roller skates and taking them apart (remember skate keys?) and nailing them onto the bottom of a 2X4 to make a skate board, before real skate boards came out. We called them surf skates. I ruined a lot of her skates.
 
Who had a control line .049 powered airplanes? I built hundreds of them. I used fishing line swivel connectors to attach the control lines to the plane. I remember doing stunts and sometimes the control lines would go slack and I would have to run backwards away from the plane to try and regain tension on the lines so I could control the plane.
 
bdalameda said:
Who had a control line .049 powered airplanes? I built hundreds of them. I used fishing line swivel connectors to attach the control lines to the plane. I remember doing stunts and sometimes the control lines would go slack and I would have to run backwards away from the plane to try and regain tension on the lines so I could control the plane.
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Wen-Mac reday-to-fly semi-scale control line planes - made of plastic with a weedy .049 glow motor. Much better with a Cox .09 on the front.....
 
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bdalameda said:
yep - It was a 1957 Mercedes 190 sedan that was passed down to me starting from my mother to my brother to my sister and then to me. When I finally got rid of it it was pushing 800K miles. The radio was a Blaupunkt.
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The memories keep coming but does anyone remember on the car and home radio's the civil defense station logo on the dial that you were supposed to tune into in case the USSR launched their nukes? I think this was during the cold war.
 
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