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12-25-2020, 10:57 AM | #21 |
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Re: Signs, back in the day
Logger's wear shoes with metal spikes, caulks, to help walk the downed trunks. During the civil war the shoes had hobbed nails in the soles so a lot of reenactment based businesses here in the civil war area have "No hobnail shoes" signs on the door to keep their wooden floors from damage when the period wearing geared reenactors come to town.
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12-25-2020, 11:33 AM | #22 |
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Re: Signs, back in the day
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One look at Jim And threw the peanuts Back at him Burma Shave |
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12-25-2020, 12:10 PM | #23 |
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Re: Signs, back in the day
cigarette ads that were "approved" by Doctors!!
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12-25-2020, 04:07 PM | #24 |
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Re: Signs, back in the day
Caulk boots, calk boots or cork boots are leather nail-soled boots worn by loggers in the Pacific Northwest and Canada for walking on logs.
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12-25-2020, 09:01 PM | #25 |
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Re: Signs, back in the day
It’s pronounced “corks”, at least in western Washington. Most the loggers usually wore hard soled slippers/moccasins to and from their work bus (crummy).
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12-25-2020, 10:43 PM | #26 |
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12-26-2020, 02:48 AM | #27 |
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This site keeps telling me the photo I was going to upload is an invalid file... so, never mind.
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12-26-2020, 04:09 PM | #28 |
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In my supplier factories I used to frequent, there were always "Safety First, Please Do Not Spit on The Floor" signs everywhere. Most of them had the 'p' made into an 'h' though. When one plant was being torn down, I found an original one which now hangs in my garage.
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12-26-2020, 07:07 PM | #29 |
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Re: Signs, back in the day
In an auto repair garage near my childhood home:
Tune-up Service: Points and plugs pitted - $10 Plugs and pits pointed - $10 Pits and points plugged - $10 Get all three for $25. |
12-26-2020, 07:23 PM | #30 |
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In a Texaco where I grew up.
Oil change $3.25 if you watch $5.00 If you talk $7.95 |
12-26-2020, 07:32 PM | #31 |
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"pity all the mighty Caesars, pulled their whiskers out with tweezers" Burma Shave
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12-26-2020, 07:38 PM | #32 |
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12-26-2020, 10:41 PM | #33 |
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Don't know if this is from back in the day but my wife bought me a sign for my shop. It reads "You can't buy Happiness- but- you can buy cars and that's kinda the same thing."
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12-27-2020, 11:30 AM | #34 | |
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12-27-2020, 12:29 PM | #35 |
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Ripley's Believe It or Not many years ago claimed a tombstone in a cemetery had this inscription:
"Here Lies the Body of Jonathan Blake, Stepped on the Gas Instead of the Brake" |
12-27-2020, 08:25 PM | #36 |
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On a store counter there was a jar with pennies in it, and a sign that read
Need a Penny, Get a Penny Need two Pennies, Get a Job. |
12-27-2020, 08:33 PM | #37 |
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Stop Signs had cats eye marble reflectors.
Street signs were 4x4's, painted white, with the street names running vertically on the sides of the post. I can remember my dad sending me to the gas station for a gallon of "white gas" with a quarter. Gas was $0.239. I don't know why I remember that. |
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I'm old and from the country. As a kid I remember the cats eyes reflectors. We didn't have road signs. It was 'turn right two roads past the school, unless you took the fork, then you double back through that road by the red barn". Of course that barn hasn't been painted in thirty years. Actually when I moved to my home here in Virginia in 1980 I would tell people the route number and get a "Don't know them numbers." I finally found out I was two miles north of Crossroads store. But, Crossroads store burned in the 60's and it was a cornfield. LOL |
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As a kid, I remember directions like that. “Turn right after the barn (that’s no longer there).” That was fine for locals, but visitors were clueless. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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12-28-2020, 08:41 AM | #40 |
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Re: Signs, back in the day
"the man who loans tools died" "this shop is protected by a genuine wild cat" signs still there...
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