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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,474 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Speaking of old, https://nypost.com/2023/02/09/guinness-world-record-for-oldest-mouse-in-human-care-awarded/

  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Significant3 said:
    My parents would give me some change to go buy them a pack of cigarettes from a vending machine in the lobby of Bobs Big Boy.

    Or a note to run down to the corner grocery store and get them a pack?

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember taking the note to get smokes quite well. Also the cigarette vending machine.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • cbuck
    cbuck Posts: 9,116 ✭✭✭✭✭

    25 cents in the vending, 22 at the counter! 1966 when I was 11!

  • cbuck
    cbuck Posts: 9,116 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And gas, 28 cents a gallon around 1971!

  • d_blades
    d_blades Posts: 4,551 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Remember gas wars, once got gas for 12 cents a gallon in HS.

    Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.

  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @genareddog said:

    @ShawnOL said:
    I remember taking the note to get smokes quite well. Also the cigarette vending machine.

    Still a cigarette vending machine that is operational down at a bar in Nashville, Tn

    We have them in a lot of the casinos. They're a little more than 25 cents though...

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  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    If you can remember before unleaded was invented. Leaded gas smelled soo good. Maybe that's my problem.

    Ethyl and Regular.
    I'd spend that extra penny for my minibike.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • Rhamlin
    Rhamlin Posts: 9,137 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember dad giving me money to go run to the pony keg and get him a 6 pack and me a candy bar. They never batted an eye selling an 8 year old beer.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nothing beats a good recliner, except for a good cigar and a whiskey.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dont know what the bottom one is for.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,360 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a Western state thing, used to pull your boots off.

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,474 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We had one of those when I was a kid, common back when people had large gardens or horses.

  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,643 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 31

    Boot jack. Saw many home made from wood. There was a well worn one at my maternal grandparent’s home I wish I could have that one today. I’d keep it by the back door just like Grandaddy but I’d mount it on the wall as a keepsake.

  • OmgFrigginMike
    OmgFrigginMike Posts: 506 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Stubble said:
    Still have a couple of these around.

    I was about to ask you what that was in your other post!

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