Did we go to 1st through 5th grade together? A local very wealthy family got their start as refugees from Greece after WWII by selling Camel unfiltereds from an earlier version vending machine, for a nickel a pack.
I'm that old as well, but the last one's function stumped me. I remember seeing it but don't remember what it did. Was is a binding - closure tool like a paper clip ? My feeble mind isn't remembering this morning.
I inherited my Grandfather’s rule and straight claw hammer from Sears & Roebucks in Miami Fla. Craftsman electric handsaw, drill and sander. And they all still run after 55 years.
My folks used to give me the money for the cigarettes and have me get them from the machine Local hardware store still stocks those little gliders. Made sure my son grew up with them I still have a car with that hidden gas cap/license plate. Can’t quite remember what the last one is though Coelacanth
The packs were 23 cents so when you dropped a quarter you got the pack with 2 pennies taped to the side. As Jonny the Bellhop used to say: "All call for Phillip Morriseeees".
I still buy these balsa wood planes for my out of state Grandkids when they come by for a visit during the summer. Except the planes are no longer 25 cents.
Hell, even I had 45s that didn't go "Bang!" and one of them was Alvin and The Chipmunks' "My Friend The Witchdoctor" that my grandma liked... for a bit...
Was 12 years old, your turn, buddies ponied up the 50cents, strutted into the diner, sidled over to the machine, making sure no adult saw, put the money in and pulled the knob for Luckies or Pall Mall, whatever we had previously decided on, the machines were loud, grabbed the pack and ran out the door and met up around the corner to enjoy. Dropped the cap in the hinge to keep the plate down while gassing up Still use wooden rule. Mines a Lufkin. Had several gliders and rubber band planes Only had one adaptor for all my 45s
Still driving the GM hidden gas cap car. My folder is steel, plane and spacer, yep and yep. My folks smoked, so that was a big NO for me. "Those were the good ole days" to the tune of Carly Simon...
Kenny - I'll be 60 on Friday and I know all of these items, although I can't speak to the brands inside the cigarette machine.
@Biggus .. I got a couple of those folding rulers from my dad. He died about 3 yrs ago, left behind all manner of antique but very serviceable tools. I also have an auger bit set which belonged to my great grandfather down my mother's line.
I learned as an apprentice electrician that folding rules are faster and more efficient than a tape. To this day, I always have a rule in my truck and several around my shop.
In the mid-70s would drive from Tuscaloosa to Western NC, visiting my fiancee who was practice teaching. I'd buy 10 cartons of Marlboro Lights for $2.50+4% tax. You could legally take that quantity across state lines. The same was $6 in T-town, so I'd sell each for $5. Meat & 3 back then was $1.25, and a Bud was 25 cents. So, my $24 profit went a long way.
I'm trying to remember the last car I owned with the gas cap behind the license plate. Might've been that Dodge Coronet I bought for $200 for a winter beater - WDS
I have several folding rules. Used them in my job to show ADA clearances in pictures I had to take to send back to our central office. Also have a couple of antique or vintage two foot folding rules with little brass extenders on them for checking inside measurements.
1993, AdamsMark Hotel, Tulsa. Aircract Maintenance Conference (AMC). BTW, All the vendors and airlines attend. One vendor had sacks of balsa airplanes with their logo printed on the wings as give-aways in their booth. I took a sack full (guessing here, approx. 50-75 gliders) and went to the top of the hotel at about 10 pm and launched everyone of them onto the streets. Wonderful sight. Never found out if that vendor(competitor got blamed).
Yeah, it cost a few cents more to get my Chesterfield Kings from the machine, but in the long run it might've been cheaper than the "free" ones for a couple of years in my C-rats. At least Uncle Sam did supply my brand.
Until recently, with smoking bans, I have seen a few in taverns (no one under 21 admitted). That's been at least 10 years, though. There used to be one in the video arcade I frequented as a teenager (Many years ago).
D) All of the above! I had plenty of those balsa wood planes in the 60's growing up. The really fun ones had a propeller, with a wound-up rubber band being the motive force. Happy Days!
I was visiting my soon-to-be-90 year old dad last week. He asked me to hang a picture on his wall and handed me that same folding ruler to center it on the wall.
45 rpm single discs as bought would play on a normal auto drop home record player. For use on a juke box the disc had a push out centre so the disc self centred on the larger juke box conical spindle. To play that disc on a home deck again you needed that thingy to fill up the centre hole. Here in Scotland we had a cafe owned by a lovely Italian family. It sold Chesterfield and I loved them. More expensive than local fags but worth it for that exotic flavour. Excuse the English English. From a Scot.
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Oh, yeah. Had to think about the last for a second because we only had spindles.
ReplyDeleteDid we go to 1st through 5th grade together?
ReplyDeleteA local very wealthy family got their start as refugees from Greece after WWII by selling Camel unfiltereds from an earlier version vending machine, for a nickel a pack.
I'm so old I saw they had some of the newer brands like True and Vantage. Plus lights. I also remember when Quarter would not have been plural.
ReplyDeleteHa. My dad has a old Coke machine that will only take nickels and dimes...
DeleteI'm that old as well. Better days they were.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the little red disc thing at the end?
ReplyDeleteTo insert into 45 rpm single records to play on a 33 rpm turntable
DeleteAn insert so you could play your 45 RPM phonograph records on the turntable. Mine were yellow.
DeleteGoes in the hole of a 45 record, so it'll play on the spindle of a LP (33 record).
DeleteIt was an adapter for the center of a 45 record.
DeleteI'm so old, I remember 78 speed on the phonograph
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I still have a 45 rpm thing on my key ring...a red one just like that
DeleteI still have a few 78rpm records. "The Woody Woodpecker Song" and the like.
DeleteI'm that old as well, but the last one's function stumped me. I remember seeing it but don't remember what it did. Was is a binding - closure tool like a paper clip ? My feeble mind isn't remembering this morning.
ReplyDeleteStill have my folding ruler.
ReplyDeleteWhat's on the back of 36" on a six foot folding rule? Answer, 36". Yup I still have mine too.
DeleteI inherited my Grandfather’s rule and straight claw hammer from Sears & Roebucks in Miami Fla. Craftsman electric handsaw, drill and sander. And they all still run after 55 years.
DeleteMy folks used to give me the money for the cigarettes and have me get them from the machine
ReplyDeleteLocal hardware store still stocks those little gliders. Made sure my son grew up with them
I still have a car with that hidden gas cap/license plate.
Can’t quite remember what the last one is though
Coelacanth
Little plastic thing was for 45 records.
DeleteA plastic insert to allow 45 rpm records to be played on a 33 rpm turntable.
Delete45 record center piece so it was centered on the turntable.
DeleteI kept looking at the flip down license plate to figure what was so special. Then it dawned on me, yeah I'm that old.
DeleteThe packs were 23 cents so when you dropped a quarter you got the pack with 2 pennies taped to the side. As Jonny the Bellhop used to say: "All call for Phillip Morriseeees".
ReplyDeletefirst pack I ever smoked was a quarter, out of a machine, Phillip Morris, in a brown plastic pack...that was uh...1967 I think...
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ReplyDeleteThose folding rulers are still pretty common on the job site. All the concrete guys use them.
ReplyDeleteI still buy these balsa wood planes for my out of state Grandkids when they come by for a visit during the summer. Except the planes are no longer 25 cents.
ReplyDeleteHell, even I had 45s that didn't go "Bang!" and one of them was Alvin and The Chipmunks' "My Friend The Witchdoctor" that my grandma liked... for a bit...
ReplyDeleteWas 12 years old, your turn, buddies ponied up the 50cents, strutted into the diner, sidled over to the machine, making sure no adult saw, put the money in and pulled the knob for Luckies or Pall Mall, whatever we had previously decided on, the machines were loud, grabbed the pack and ran out the door and met up around the corner to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteDropped the cap in the hinge to keep the plate down while gassing up
Still use wooden rule. Mines a Lufkin.
Had several gliders and rubber band planes
Only had one adaptor for all my 45s
Still driving the GM hidden gas cap car. My folder is steel, plane and spacer, yep and yep. My folks smoked, so that was a big NO for me. "Those were the good ole days" to the tune of Carly Simon...
DeleteThe last one is for playing 45 rpm records on record players with the small spindle for 33-1/3 rpm records
ReplyDeleteKenny - I'll be 60 on Friday and I know all of these items, although I can't speak to the brands inside the cigarette machine.
ReplyDelete@Biggus .. I got a couple of those folding rulers from my dad. He died about 3 yrs ago, left behind all manner of antique but very serviceable tools. I also have an auger bit set which belonged to my great grandfather down my mother's line.
My best friend's grandmother worked at Guillow's in Wakefield, MA back in the day. We had bags full of those gliders.
ReplyDeleteI am definitely that old.
ReplyDeletei'm that old but like everybody else i can't remember what that red disk was for.
ReplyDeleteI remember all those
ReplyDeleteI am that old. Remember all those things.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days
ReplyDeleteJD
I'm old enough to remember them all, and still have the 45's (but no inserts)
ReplyDeleteI learned as an apprentice electrician that folding rules are faster and more efficient than a tape. To this day, I always have a rule in my truck and several around my shop.
ReplyDeleteIn the mid-70s would drive from Tuscaloosa to Western NC, visiting my fiancee who was practice teaching. I'd buy 10 cartons of Marlboro Lights for $2.50+4% tax. You could legally take that quantity across state lines. The same was $6 in T-town, so I'd sell each for $5. Meat & 3 back then was $1.25, and a Bud was 25 cents. So, my $24 profit went a long way.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to remember the last car I owned with the gas cap behind the license plate.
ReplyDeleteMight've been that Dodge Coronet I bought for $200 for a winter beater
- WDS
I like the dropped tail.light on a 56 Chevy to gas up, better than bending over to fill.
ReplyDeleteI have several folding rules. Used them in my job to show ADA clearances in pictures I had to take to send back to our central office. Also have a couple of antique or vintage two foot folding rules with little brass extenders on them for checking inside measurements.
ReplyDelete1993, AdamsMark Hotel, Tulsa. Aircract Maintenance Conference (AMC). BTW, All the vendors and airlines attend. One vendor had sacks of balsa airplanes with their logo printed on the wings as give-aways in their booth. I took a sack full (guessing here, approx. 50-75 gliders) and went to the top of the hotel at about 10 pm and launched everyone of them onto the streets. Wonderful sight. Never found out if that vendor(competitor got blamed).
ReplyDeleteYeah, it cost a few cents more to get my Chesterfield Kings from the machine, but in the long run it might've been cheaper than the "free" ones for a couple of years in my C-rats.
ReplyDeleteAt least Uncle Sam did supply my brand.
I was just about to ask about the last one but Anonymous called it!
ReplyDeleteThe cigarette machine usually also dispensed a free book of matches (striker on the front for one handed lighting, until the nannies got their way.)
ReplyDeleteI'm sitting here trying to remember the last time I saw a cigarette machine. I'm drawing a blank.
ReplyDeleteUntil recently, with smoking bans, I have seen a few in taverns (no one under 21 admitted). That's been at least 10 years, though. There used to be one in the video arcade I frequented as a teenager (Many years ago).
Delete#1 and it was only one quarter.
ReplyDeleteD) All of the above! I had plenty of those balsa wood planes in the 60's growing up. The really fun ones had a propeller, with a wound-up rubber band being the motive force. Happy Days!
ReplyDeleteHoly crap I'm old!!!!
ReplyDeleteI’m this old, too!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great addition to the website Kenny!!! "quarters only"-- hahahahaaa damn that is old.....
ReplyDeleteI was visiting my soon-to-be-90 year old dad last week. He asked me to hang a picture on his wall and handed me that same folding ruler to center it on the wall.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the stroll down memory lane..... I remember all of those !
ReplyDeleteMe too buddy, me too.
ReplyDelete45 rpm single discs as bought would play on a normal auto drop home record player.
ReplyDeleteFor use on a juke box the disc had a push out centre so the disc self centred on the larger juke box conical spindle.
To play that disc on a home deck again you needed that thingy to fill up the centre hole.
Here in Scotland we had a cafe owned by a lovely Italian family. It sold Chesterfield and I loved them. More expensive than local fags but worth it for that exotic flavour. Excuse the English English. From a Scot.