In my day ...

[olbriar]

I can only remember two, skeleton and skate.

The unnamed is a clock key

 

[AugieTN]

I can remember my father mowing our yard with one of these when I was a little guy.

50 bonus points to the first person that knows what it's called.

There was a smaller version of the Scythe called a Grass Whip. Growing up my City Park Dept would hire kids (12-15) in the summer for two weeks to use Grass Whips to make new walking trails in parks. We were paid $40 a week.

 

[BrickHouse]

The unnamed is a clock key

Ahhh, yes. And I've used them on the clocks we had. We just left them in the keyway.
Guess than means it looks like CRS is kicking in. (Can't Remember Stuff [you choose the expletive])

 

[olbriar]

My father was a collector and repairman of antique American clocks as a hobby. In my day, the sound of ticking clocks and chimes and bells were ever present. My home houses half of his life long obsession but I do not run them.

 

[Clementine_3]

I can only remember two, skeleton and skate.

Clock winder is the third.

Oh. Haha. I should have checked the next page first!

 

[olbriar]

Clock winder is the third.

Oh. Haha. I should have checked the next page first!

I believe ya Clem... honestly I do. I picked out a rather generic clock key for the pic. Some of them are quite decorative and some are mini cranks. Good on you for identifying the key.

 

[The_Chief]

Side note: we have an old Howard Miller grandfather clock that my Darling Bride had purchased new in 1990. Within a couple of years, her shyster sister had conned her out of it. It was a point of contention for decades. Shortly before sister's death in 2020, she offered it back to my wife, provided we go to Missouri to get it. It was in absolute shambles and needed almost as much repair & restoration as it had cost new (probably more in equivalent dollars). Today, though, it's a showpiece in our living room and I have the pendulum so tweaked that it's accurate to 15-30 seconds a week. I'm content with that...

 

[olbriar]

My father had a few grandfather and grandmother clocks through the years. Mostly he was into Seth Thomas double dial clocks. One dial face kept the time and the other date, month, and day. Fascinating and fairly accurate for their time. Most were made between 1860 and 1900. Here is a typical pic of the majority of clocks I have.

 

[olbriar]

I still have a couple of these in the shed

 

[AugieTN]

I still have a couple of these in the shed

Use to use those all the time when I was pumping gas at a Phillips 66 gas station and the car needed a quart of oil.

 

[olbriar]

I had one for each of my questionable vehicles when I first married. Both burned oil and a spout and a couple of cans of oil were always in the trunk. The good ol days

 

[AugieTN]

I had one for each of my questionable vehicles when I first married. Both burned oil and a spout and a couple of cans of oil were always in the trunk. The good ol days

 

[olbriar]

Speaking of the good ol days, remember when you could use a bumper jack to raise your vehicle to change a tire? Use one on a modern auto and you'd rip the bumper off.

 

[AugieTN]

Speaking of the good ol days, remember when you could use a bumper jack to raise your vehicle to change a tire? Use one on a modern auto and you'd rip the bumper off.

I sure do. That has changed to the frame under the car. I think air bag sensors are in the bumpers now

 

[olbriar]

Remember the array of road maps at a filling station?
Having to make your own chipped ice from a block?

 

[AugieTN]

Remember the array of road maps at a filling station?

 

[BrickHouse]

I still have a couple of these in the shed

Maaaaaaan ........... Days gone by there ...

 

[BrickHouse]

Remember the array of road maps at a filling station?
Having to make your own chipped ice from a block?

Yeah
How many can remember waking up with new wounds on their inferior hand after a party?

 

[BrickHouse]

Thanks for putting a date on us Augie.

 

[The_Chief]

Remember the array of road maps at a filling station?

Back when people knew how to read a map! Nowadays people drive right into lakes because Siri told them to...

 

[Unforgiven]

Speaking of the good ol days, remember when you could use a bumper jack to raise your vehicle to change a tire? Use one on a modern auto and you'd rip the bumper off.

That sweet sound and satisfaction when you had it letting the car down on its own.

Back when people knew how to read a map! Nowadays people drive right into lakes because Siri told them to...

I still carry an atlas. If my GPS device, whatever it is, goes kaput, I can still get wherever I'm going.

 

[olbriar]

This past winter while doing the deep clean and toss, my atlas hit the dumpster. It was way dated but it was still fun to look at. We hi-lited every route taken on every trip for years. I had to give it a long look... lots of memories were marked in that atlas. Alas, atlas no more.

 

[Clementine_3]

My friend still has, and uses, her falling apart decades old Atlas. It did come in handy when my son was traveling around for school track/cross country meets, she kept it at work and I'd use it before heading out across hill and dale.

 

[olbriar]

I was in my shed tonight working on my bike and ran across these.

The operating system was pre loaded on my 386 20 that boasted of having 2 megs of ram and a 100 megabyte hard drive. It even had a internal 2400 baud modem.
The floppies are still sealed in their packaging.

 

[Davdi]

My first PC was a 386SX/25 with 4MB and a 100mb hard disk with DOS5.0 and Windows 3 back in the early 1990s