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First guns… My first gun was a Stevens Crack Shot .22 (which I still have), the 94 was given to me in 1963 for my birthday, the 4 inch Python in 1966, and I bought the 6 inch Python in … Continue reading
Category Archives: TBT
Sigh… The things one ‘finds’ when you move… Anybody remember these? Aluminium travel cups that somehow migrated into the house and became the ‘kids’ cups… And how many of us old farts had one of these? It’s a Sony no … Continue reading
Anybody recognize these??? Back in the day before ‘breakers’ these were what you had in your house… They weren’t called FUSE boxes for nothing…LOL And an ’emergency’ fuse was a real copper penny! As a high school kid, I helped … Continue reading
Hard to believe this was 51 years ago… sigh… Digging WAY back in the vault… Of memories, and the few operating brain cells that remember… Setting the way back machine to 1974-5 thanks to a conversation last night with an … Continue reading
Yes, I’m old… sigh… And I really DO need to clean out some cabinets… You youngsters may not recognize this… That is a real floppy disk… And the up close version you can see it’s a start up disk for … Continue reading
42 years ago… We were deployed to Keflavik, IC and it was one of the worst winters on record. This was just another day for us to go flying. The ones that had it the worst were the maintainers that … Continue reading
Back in the day… And we bitched when the price went up… The day before beer had been .35 cents! They were in the process of ‘changing’ the machine… sigh Beer machines in the barracks… The ‘brand selection’ depended on … Continue reading
Are you old enough to remember what this is, and where it was used??? If you’re an old fart like I am, it’s…easy… I knew them as ‘convertibles’, and my aunts in Texas both had them on their sleeping porches. … Continue reading
Haven’t done one of these for a while… So, back in the day… This one comes with a few memories… Cafe Acores, George the Crook, Fast Eddies, Matteus Rose, goat cheese and fresh bread, beautiful filigree silver and gold jewelry… … Continue reading
Haven’t done one of these in a while… Back in the day, this is how we let everybody know we’d gotten the ‘job’ done! Used to piss off certain COs, but what the heck, our maintainers loved it! It was … Continue reading