OLD?

[Brad Johnson]

I had a brace of cap pistols made of "Pot Metal," whatever that is.

Yeah, but you probably had them "new-fangled" kind that used plastic ring caps and not the real-deal paper strips that you could hit with a hammer. 

Brad

[Perd Hapley]

No, they used paper caps.  This would have been the eighties. 

[mtnbkr]

I preferred the plastic ring caps.  I hated the paper caps. 

You could hit the plastic ring caps with a hammer too.  If your strike was good, you could set off an entire ring at once.

Chris

[280plus]

Paper caps were cool because you could zig zag the whole roll over piercing each little pouch of gunpwoder with a needle and thread till you had this long square looking thing all held together with the thread. Then, although I forget how we used to do it, you could set the whole roll off at once and it was like a firecracker. 

[crt360]

I think my first decent cap gun was a polished/engraved paper cap revolver that my grandpa bought me when I was real little.  It was one of my favorite toys.  When I was a little older I had one of the plastic ring cap guns - another favorite.  I also had one of those metal dart looking things that you stuck a cap in and threw at a hard surface.  I think somebody probably gave me a toy gun (and maybe some caps) when I was born.  I don't remember not having one.

[Hazzard]

Lee COSI is definately a cool place to visit. I've been there several times and it is amazing to me that it is more interesting each time I go.

Yes, we had a phone with rotary dial when I was growing up and we were on a party line. You had to listen for your "ring" to know when to pick up. We also had a black and white TV that only got 2 channels. I still remember the excitement when they brought a 3rd channel on line.

We had no AC, a wood stove for heat, got almost all of our sustenance from the farm, and if we actually went to town more than about once a month it was a treat.

So what did I learn? How to survive. That I really can do without some things. To be happy with what I have. To appreciate things.

Now I have a good job and nice home. But could I go back to the basics? I've done it before and I can do it again if necessary. And guess what. I'm not that old (only 42). I just grew up in rural WV.

[woodcdi]

Remember transistor radios? My first battery powered portable radio had vacuum tubes! I still drink Moxie. My first "calculator" was a slide rule - and what a wonder it was! I soloed in a Fornaire. I not only remember out houses, I relied on several(one still exists). I remember when you could take a shortcut through the woods - alone - at eight years old - at twilight - with no fear.

Anyone remember the first family in your neighborhood to get a TV?

Woody

    Look at your rights and freedoms as what would be required to survive and be free as if there were no government. Governments come and go, but your rights live on. If you wish to survive government, you must protect with jealous resolve all the powers that come with your rights - especially with the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Without the power of those arms, you will perish with that government - or at its hand. B.E. Wood 

[280plus]

No but I remember the first family in my neighborhood to get a COLOR TV. 

[Myself]

Speaking of old, for some unknown reason I found myself singing the Schaffer beer jingle the other day.