The "Back in my day" Thread

Pinecone said:
So, in eighth grade, I answered an add in the back of a magazine and got 91 feet of cannon fuse for $1. I cut it into 1.5 inch pieces and sold it at school for 1 cent per piece.

Science teacher was fresh out of the Army and very cool. So one day he shows us how to make nitrocellulose. A couple of days later, he takes the now dry material and some poster board to make a large firecracker. And commented, that if he had a fuse, he could detonate it.

I raise my hand and tell him I had fuse. So I gave him a couple of pieces. He lit one and mentally timed the burn rate. Then inserted another piece into his firecracker, then lit it. Talking about how we should not try this at home, it was dangerous, est. I am freaking as the fuse burns down.

Then he flicks up to the corner of the room at the ceiling and proceeds to blow up the ceiling tile.
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My middle school had two 7th grade science teachers, both of whom had injured themselves with fire in incidents at school.

One always did a thing where she spread alcohol around the perimeter of one of the lab tabletops and lit it on fire - I have no idea what we were supposed to learn from that. But, early in her career she had spread the alcohol around and then lit the match herself...

The other one had a lifelong fascination with all sorts of science, but had a particular interest in pyrotechnics, much to the delight of his students. One time, he managed to get himself and eight of his students hospitalized, along with partially removing his classroom from the school building. :eek: But he was a fantastic teacher, and held everyone's attention for sure! https://www.cressfuneralservice.com/obituaries/gerald-gunderson
 
Half Fast said:
Unfortunately they’re prone to cracks in the wood of the stock, just behind the lock plates. The extra wood that has to be removed for a sidelock compared to a boxlock leaves them a little weak for modern high powered ammo.

I had a gunsmith repair mine and glass the wood under the locks. It’s fine as long as I stick with light loads.
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Yep, I go through about 20 cases of 1 ounce 12 gauge a year between my serious clays gun (a Caesar Guerini) and the LC Smith, Parker and Foxes I shoot in side by side vintage shoots.
 
Pugs said:
New England arms, like so many, New England arms rebranded or acquired other brand names and their product line varied as you’d think.
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Many larger manufacturers have tried the business model of buying up smaller well regarded manufacturers and then centralizing production and streamlining parts manufacture. Sometimes the savings allow the production of a decent product at a reasonable price point. More often it results in a product that was a shadow of its former incarnation. I've never owned one, but have heard both about the Marlin manufactured LC Smiths.
 
JackL-3J said:
I've never owned one, but have heard both about the Marlin manufactured LC Smiths.
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It was the factory floor collapse 4 years after Marlin bought LC that really did it in. While the early Marlin guns (1945-50) are not as desirable, they were largely unchanged from the Hunter Arms built ones that represent the majority of production.
 
flyingron said:
After that they got picky about leaving the raw materials out where the students could find them.
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A friend of mine took Advanced Chemistry in HS. Teacher asked him to clean and organize the storage room. On a upper shelf, in the far back, he found a large bottle of Lysergic Acid. :D :D
 
The morning chore of Shoveling Coal from the coal bin into the hopper to keep house furnace running all day.
Then removing the Clinkers from the Furnace and dumping them in the driveway once a week.

Then the trucking coming by once in a while to refill the coal bin.

Brian
 
brcase said:
The morning chore of Shoveling Coal from the coal bin into the hopper to keep house furnace running all day.
Then removing the Clinkers from the Furnace and dumping them in the driveway once a week.

Then the trucking coming by once in a while to refill the coal bin.

Brian
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We were seldom able to buy coal, so Dad stockpiled firewood. My brother and I had the job of filling the coal bin with wood, and my parents got up in the middle of the night to feed the furnace.
 
Perkins. Remember those? I haven’t eaten at one in 20 years. Well I’m on a trip in Des Moines right now and guess where I am? Wild!!
 
kaiser said:
Perkins. Remember those? I haven’t eaten at one in 20 years. Well I’m on a trip in Des Moines right now and guess where I am? Wild!!
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The one just across from the airport? That's where I met my wife!
 
Perkins, probably the single highest common factor to DWI arrests in iowa for 20 years.
 
Most of the Perkins in my area have closed ... but we still have a few IHOPs so there is that!
 
MauleSkinner said:
At least you didn’t say “Waffle House.” Imagine how waffle that would be!
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:lol: :lol:

Glad to see some one caught that, I grew up a little too far west for Waffle House.

The local Pancake House I was familiar with closed in the early 70s, I believe, and pretty sure it was just a local chain, maybe just in southeast Texas, I am really not sure. It was more similar to Stuckey's
 
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