Anybody Remember Back When?

[bunyip]

they would work perfectly in any parking meter I ever saw. :shocked:

The crafty sods here have a clear inspection panel so they can see what you put in, well, I should say used to as most now are credit card operated and have a sensor to zero the meter when you leave so you can't give away any surplus time.

 

[k0ua]

The crafty sods here have a clear inspection panel so they can see what you put in, well, I should say used to as most now are credit card operated and have a sensor to zero the meter when you leave so you can't give away any surplus time.

Dang!. NO fun down under!

 

[dragoneggs]

here is a bit of trivia you can file away as totally useless. Most pull tabs "back in the day" were not round. They had that odd shape to them after you broke the flat piece of aluminum off of them. But not the Frosty Root Beer ones. They were perfectly round after you broke off the aluminum flap. Guess what size they were? Yeah exactly the same size as a nickle. Although they would not work in the sophisticated Coke and Pepsi machines that checked for washers and things with holes in the center, they would work perfectly in any parking meter I ever saw. :shocked:

And the knock outs in metal electrical boxes were exactly the same size as quarters. We used to climb up on top of the local college buildings and sniff around the A/C units and find 'slugs'. Then we went into the game area and played pinball to our heart's content. We got so good that we could survive for hours on just a few.

 

[PILOON]

I did play slot machines for a while way back then.

As U know slugs did not work so I got a brain wave and decided to drill a hole in the coin and use a length of fishing leader as a tether.
Worked great! Got the odds card so lit up that we'd simply shoot all 5 balls at once and go collect.

On the flipper machines I often noticed small holes drilled on the side to manually activate a high score bumper with a length of stiff wire.

 

[jerrybob]

Yep. In Vietnam, circa 1972, beer cans didn't have a pull tab. Had to carry a "Church Key". Still have mine, stenciled Schlitz.

In the 60's...my grandpa had a fishing boat in San Pedro, Calif. All the adults use to drink beer with cans that required the church key....our pop did as well. When you finished your drink...you popped a couple extra holes in the side of the can with the key and tossed the can over the side. After a few years....you could actually see the glimmer of the cans on the harbor floor under his boat. I bet there was a mountain of cans under the boat. Back in those days...environmental laws were different...the head on his boat had a hand pump....after you did your business...a couple of pumps and out the bottom of the boat it went. To think...on hot days....us kids swam in that water.

 

[jerrybob]

here is a bit of trivia you can file away as totally useless. Most pull tabs "back in the day" were not round. They had that odd shape to them after you broke the flat piece of aluminum off of them. But not the Frosty Root Beer ones. They were perfectly round after you broke off the aluminum flap. Guess what size they were? Yeah exactly the same size as a nickle. Although they would not work in the sophisticated Coke and Pepsi machines that checked for washers and things with holes in the center, they would work perfectly in any parking meter I ever saw. :shocked:

Ever use spit pennies to make a phone call? We used to put a big mound of spit on a penny....put it in the nickel slot on the phone in the booth and run it through a few times...eventually...it would slip into the right spot....we'd get dial tone and make our call. Always wondered what the next guy thought when he went to get his change in the coin return and it was full of spit?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Sail boaters are still pooping and peeing in the water! It grinds in up and out it goes...

SR

 

[bunyip]

Sail boaters are still pooping and peeing in the water! It grinds in up and out it goes...

SR

we have to have a holding tank and find a dump point, big fine if you get caught.

 

[turnkey4099]

When I was in high school (Late 60's and graduated in 71) you got all soft drinks from a bottle. I am not sure when cans came out, but bottles were how you got pop out of a machine.

And up into the 40s those bottles were in a thing looking like a chest freezer. Up to their necks in very cold water. Held in horizontal slots and the mechanism would only allow one bottle at a time to be removed.

 

[turnkey4099]

And up into the 40s those bottles were in a thing looking like a chest freezer. Up to their necks in very cold water. Held in horizontal slots and the mechanism would only allow one bottle at a time to be removed.

Sorry, I see that was already covered. Should have read all the posts first.