Things you could order over 50 years ago that you can't order now !

[ultrarunner]

Still got my unused cowboy knife collection. Don't remember how old it is though. I gave my
prized Roy Rogers knife to my best friend who wanted it. Wish I had it back.
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eBay???

 

[ponytug]

eBay???

Yup!
roy rogers knife: Search Result | eBay
55 available at the moment.

 

[ultrarunner]

So

Yup!
roy rogers knife: Search Result | eBay
55 available at the moment.

Sometimes a man has got to do what a man's had to do...

I've sourced things for those seasoned citizens with no internet... they were almost overjoyed... really for simple things.

One 95 year old's favorite cooking pot broke after decades of daily use... $20 and change replaced it and you would have thought she won the lottery...

Same for some stolen hand tools for another friend...

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Yup!
roy rogers knife: Search Result | eBay
55 available at the moment.

Be careful. There are Chiwanese knock offs of about everything on eBay. There has to be a a guy over there who searches eBay for things people search for, and commissions knock-offs. The guy we sold my Mom’s house to had a business in China rebuilding the Ural, copies of the WWII era BMWs the Germans had, and the Russians copied, then gave tooling to China. Apparently there are millions of them. He started restoring them, needed parts so he had some made. He was into Indians, and old Harleys.

He visited the US every summer with the wife and kid. And financed the trip by shipping two old bikes to China, and restoring them, and selling them at a collectors auction. He had to have parts made, and the cost per unit is lots cheaper in quantity. So he decided to buy quantities, and sell them on eBay. Makes a very comfortable living selling the reproduction parts he has made.

 

[Oaktree]

So he decided to buy quantities, and sell them on eBay. Makes a very comfortable living selling the reproduction parts he has made.

Personally, I'm leery of buying from Ebay sellers, but I'm sure there are a lot of grateful buyers for these parts, especially if they're of decent quality.

 

[BnRidge]

These were produced up until 1967, a little over 50yrs ago. There is some really coarse loose hay in the barn that has been there "for ever". The question recently was how to get it out of there, because a fork barely works with it at all. Another lost art going away.

 

[ponytug]

I once had to get "forever" hay out of a barn. By hand. And, yes, a fork is a pretty ineffective tool. I have often wondered how well those hay knives (saws?) work on old hay. I have seen photos of them in use, and I suspect that they were wickedly sharp in the day.

The hay composted for a year did make for fantastic potatoes. We dug in an eighteen inch deep trench, tilled it, put the seed potatoes down, then put a twelve inch thick layer of the hay on top, with six inches of soil above it. I was told that potatoes set potatoes above the seed, and the soft mulch caused the potatoes to grow more rapidly. Regardless, it worked really well, and harvesting was super easy, as all you had to do was run a fork with times just barely in the earth along the trench, and lift.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Egon]

Used one of these on a regular basis many years ago.

 

[bdhsfz6]

Was buying baby alligators from ads in comic books really a thing? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board

I was watching an episode of the old TV show “Leave It To Beaver” where the boys ordered a baby alligator from an ad in their comic book. It arrived in a shoe-box with holes in it and they raised it until it was a coupl…

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Over 50 years ago we ordered a baby gator from a comic book add . It came through USPS in a shoe box with holes poked on top of lid . We kept it as a pet in a shady part of house (outside) lol with a small pit , shade , small plants trees etc to make it feel at home .
When it got to big to handle a friend of ours who worked for Fish and Game relocated it for us . This was in south Fla .

Any of you's recall as a young boy ordering a baby gator in a box or something similar ? lol !

Anything from the Sears Roebuck catalog.

 

[civilian]

Used one of these on a regular basis many years ago.

What is it? Jon