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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 8, 2016 7:52:54 GMT -5
Bottle deposit 1945 ~ 1960 = 2 cents. BIG MONEY! But, the kids now are too lazy to earn any money. Will not walk anywhere or ride a bike. In the kids' defense- people don't litter the way they used to. We used to be able to scavenge enough bottles to get lots of drinks on a hot Florida day, but I can not remember the last time I have seen a bottle for deposit laying around. Besides, everything is plastic now. We don't have a deposit here on those. I don't see many of those around, either. |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 8, 2016 14:21:55 GMT -5
Night crawlers -- now there's a memory. My Dad was a total outdoorsman and fishing was his passion (and mine). We lived very close to trophy trout water in Idaho and the big Snake River lunkers loved nightcrawlers. We searched and dug nightcrawlers frequently but Dad -- always inventive -- came up with a new idea. He wired up an iron post to an electric line and after watering he pounded it into the ground. After dark, wearing rubber boots, we gave it a trial run, flashlights at the ready to search out the worms when they came to the surface. Dad switched on the electricity and we both stood slack-jawed as dozens of nightcrawlers shot out of the ground like mini missiles. Unfortunately the poor things were nearly dead from an overdose of Reddy Kilowatts (anyone remember Reddy?) Instead of live bait they were half-live bait and most never recovered. So it was back to flashlights and hunching over to capture the slimy devils. Too much power, to paraphrase a meme from the TV comedy Tool Time. We used the crank generators from old telephones. Brought the night crawlers out just right!  When I was a wee lass, 40 years ago in Alabama (spent one year there), our neighbor showed us how to fiddle for worms! This is the only YouTube video I could find, we did it a little differently. But same idea.
We sawed off a small sapling about 18 inches off the ground, then drug a saw back and forth across the top of the cut. The worms came forth in droves! It really does work, saw it with my own eyes. And then we went fishin'...
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 8, 2016 14:31:50 GMT -5
rockpickerforever We did much the same thing. We didn't use a saw, just drove a metal stake into the wet ground and tapped on it with a hammer. It definitely does work and is less harmful to the worms than electricity. I wonder how nightcrawlers behave during earthquakes? I doubt anyone's been calm enough to study that when the ground under their feet begins to shake.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2016 14:39:25 GMT -5
rockpickerforever We did much the same thing. We didn't use a saw, just drove a metal stake into the wet ground and tapped on it with a hammer. It definitely does work and is less harmful to the worms than electricity. I wonder how nightcrawlers behave during earthquakes? I doubt anyone's been calm enough to study that when the ground under their feet begins to shake. I promise a run to the backyard next earthquake! |
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 8, 2016 14:44:31 GMT -5
1dave Boy, do I remember sugar beet labors. I help thin and top them and remember the "sugar campaigns" when the factory near us went into 24/7 operation during harvest. The unpleasant stink of processed beet pulp lingers in my nostrils... I still have an old Philco radio console in storage. It needs a lot of restoration but I remember listening to it, static and all, when I was a kid.
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Post by 1dave on Nov 8, 2016 15:04:12 GMT -5
When I was a wee lass, 40 years ago in Alabama (spent one year there), our neighbor showed us how to fiddle for worms! This is the only YouTube video I could find, we did it a little differently. But same idea.
We sawed off a small sapling about 18 inches off the ground, then drug a saw back and forth across the top of the cut. The worms came forth in droves! It really does work, saw it with my own eyes. And then we went fishin'...
[/quote] Wowzers! Worm Witching! Well Worth Watching Wondering Working! |
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 8, 2016 16:24:20 GMT -5
Circus, Nope! Nor for this kid, I hate clowns, carnies, mimes, monkeys and animals kept in tiny cages. Circus came to town and that as the last place I'd want to go.
Man, I used to have a a special crick with huge night crawlers. Used to go fishing every chance I had and them big ole worms killed. Still have a big scar on my thumb though where I fell in the crick with a sharp edged coffee can full of worms. Edge of can peeled me back to the bone. Dumb kids!....Mel
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Post by 1dave on Nov 8, 2016 17:11:13 GMT -5
Circus, Nope! Nor for this kid, I hate clowns, carnies, mimes, monkeys and animals kept in tiny cages. Circus came to town and that as the last place I'd want to go. Man, I used to have a a special crick with huge night crawlers. Used to go fishing every chance I had and them big ole worms killed. Still have a big scar on my thumb though where I fell in the crick with a sharp edged coffee can full of worms. Edge of can peeled me back to the bone. Dumb kids!....Mel I was 4 in 1940. We had just moved to a new base. there was a huge Red Ant Hill in our new back yard. Of course at that advanced age I knew how to get rid of them. I found a big Coffey can -SHARP EDGE- , filled it with deadly water from the tap and ran halfway to the ants before tripping and cutting my right hand open at the base of the thumb. The base Doc stitched it shut, never noticing the cut tendon. Never bent that thumb again. Never got to show those lucky ants what I knew. |
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Nov 8, 2016 22:11:16 GMT -5
....and hopscotch. What's a hippity hop? I was a hopscotch king in 2nd and 3rd grade I remember I made my token with 3 paper clips ! I would bend one paper clip up the best I could an put two paper clips opposite of each other connected to the fist one , when I tossed it it would stick where it landed, and I never missed! |
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Nov 8, 2016 22:24:53 GMT -5
1dave, gemfellerYou both are real old. I have never seen one of those phones in person. Just sayin'! Lol In 1962 I worked a couple of years as an Outside Plant Telephone Engineer. I supervised modernizing 4-5 small town telephone systems that still had lots of those old crank phones on 8 person party lines. One entrepreneur had collected from many old time phone companies for switch-boards, old phones, and connected them with US Army phone wire looped from fence post to fence posts to give rural areas their first phones around 1950. Wow party lines I remember going out to the ranch with grandpa an grama , grama would yell and chase us of the phone cause we would listen in on them party lines, my grandpa was caretaker of the wineglass ranch in eastern colorado for most of his life since then most land is now part of the picket wire canyon military training grounds,The ranch house restored and a historic site now, without not so much a word of my family's part in it my mom and her brothers and sisters along with her mom and dad lived and worked the ranch for 40+ years , |
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Post by Pat on Nov 8, 2016 22:31:50 GMT -5
Love the worm trick. Will try it in our yard soon. Wonder what else will appear!
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Post by Pat on Nov 9, 2016 0:06:13 GMT -5
Need a trick like that for rocks!😀
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Post by geezer on Nov 9, 2016 13:59:46 GMT -5
Night crawlers -- now there's a memory. My Dad was a total outdoorsman and fishing was his passion (and mine). We lived very close to trophy trout water in Idaho and the big Snake River lunkers loved nightcrawlers. We searched and dug nightcrawlers frequently but Dad -- always inventive -- came up with a new idea. He wired up an iron post to an electric line and after watering he pounded it into the ground. After dark, wearing rubber boots, we gave it a trial run, flashlights at the ready to search out the worms when they came to the surface. Dad switched on the electricity and we both stood slack-jawed as dozens of nightcrawlers shot out of the ground like mini missiles. Unfortunately the poor things were nearly dead from an overdose of Reddy Kilowatts (anyone remember Reddy?) Instead of live bait they were half-live bait and most never recovered. So it was back to flashlights and hunching over to capture the slimy devils. Too much power, to paraphrase a meme from the TV comedy Tool Time. We used the crank generators from old telephones. Brought the night crawlers out just right! Also fun to hook up to an aluminum chair (the kind with the webbing). I remember Reddy Kilowatt! He use to be the mascot for Indianapolis Power and Light Co.! |
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Post by grayfingers on Nov 9, 2016 18:13:35 GMT -5
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 9, 2016 19:16:36 GMT -5
Oh, Lordy! An ocarina! Remember them well.
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 10, 2016 7:52:39 GMT -5
Oh, Lordy! An ocarina! Remember them well. Had to google that. Had no clue. Found a shop with nothing but them and a few youtube videos. Were these popular with kids? I only remember kazoos. |
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Post by grayfingers on Nov 10, 2016 9:06:31 GMT -5
I have one identical to the one in the photo. It was my Dad's, but I played it when I was growing up. His was made in the late 1940's Some called it the "sweet potato" rockjunquie Yes, they were popular with kids and older teens. I believe they were common through the early 1960s |
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Post by 1dave on Nov 11, 2016 8:08:38 GMT -5
I had a wooden whistle
but it woodn't whistle.
So I bought a steel whistle
but it steel woodn't whistle.
So I bought a tin whistle.
NOW I tin whistle!
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Nov 11, 2016 8:54:06 GMT -5
Did everyone forget spin the bottle!
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Nov 11, 2016 8:57:09 GMT -5
How about cranking your arm up and down trying to get the semi - truck drivers to blow them big shinny horns!
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