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Got a box of 20 mule in the cupboard right now. Don't know where the wife gets it

I get it off the grocery shelf. I use it for flux when forge welding.

The Home Permanents.

"Which Twin has the Tony?"

In my pre-school years, I was dragged into far too many beauty salons while Mom underwent beautification. The godawful smell still haunts me. It's even worse than the odor of a fabric store.

Is the crazy crawler the top water plug that had the metal flippers on the sides?

I also liked the metal ring reel seats,, I am building a spin/fly rod and putting a tennessee handle on it. Most guys tape the reel on a tennessee handle but I'm going to use rings so I can mount the reel on the end if I'm fly fishing and mount a spinning reel near the top when spin fishing. I also liked the old rubber skirts now a days the dam band breaks and all the strands end up in the bottom of your box.

You brought back memories man, good ones. Remember metal minnow buckets?

O I forgot, AbuGarcia Cardinal reels. I bought a 4X Cardinal about 2 weeks ago that had never even had line put on it and it didn't have a scratch for 30 bucks! SCORE!!! No box though : (

Ah, but if you're old like me, 'abu garcia' is 'new school' after the Garcia Corporation went under. The pics of the reel box(cardboard) is from when I was 12 years old. Garcia Mitchell reels carried a lifetime warranty and they were headquartered in Teaneck NJ, just down the road off of Route 4 from me. If you had a problem with the reel, you got your mother to drive you there, they had a repair shop, and they'd just give you another reel, no questions asked.

And yes, the Heddon Crazy Crawler had the metal arms that extended out on the sides of the body, wish I still had one of those.

Yes, I remember metal minnow buckets, there were galvanized sheet metal, I think the one I had was a woodstream.

I well remember metal minnow buckets. The one that we had was older than I was. Dad's "good" rod (fiberglass, not metal) was a Heddon Pal Spook.

I remember a joke that was, why do Italian women sleep in the nude?


To keep their Tony home permanent.

Anyone remember Frontier Ammunition from the mid 60's, Joyce Hornadys introduction into the ammunition business that is now Hornady ammunition? Milsurp brass and hornady bullets.

In the mid 60's I was a snot nosed teenager who couldn't afford remington or winchester ammo so I used this. Great stuff that I outshot adults with using Remington & Winchster ammo, and I was using a Remington 700 with iron sites at Camp Rockspar in Pa, located between Moshannon and Renovo.

Mattel Shootin' Shell rifle/pistol set, Hubley Rifleman rifle, Woolworth's cap guns, rubber band gun and a favorite of mine, the spud gun...

We would buy our Spud Guns at Pooley's, the town drive-in/kid store. If left unattended for lengthy periods of time, the starch would corrode the pot metal. There was a large rock at the corner of our lot and Nordlund's where they met the alley. That was our spud-shootin' spot.

Was in Mal-Wart this afternoon and noticed that they have a plastic version of the spud gun. Naturally, I cannot now remember what it is called.

Also on the gone but not forgotten list is the Forever Yours candy bar.

Bubs Daddy bubble gum.

Schwinn bicycles were King of the Roost, before the English took over.

Recall the adds, "Steer with your hands, stop with your feet'?

They are still around, but like so many sad cases, broke, and bought up by another company.

Few that aren't around anymore:

L&S Mirrolures


Heddon Tiny Torpedo


Heddon Big Chug


And Cisco Kid lures

Nice.

I remember mirrorlures. They still make tiny torpedos, they can't be beat in the summer when the rivers are low and clear for smallmouth.

Every now and then, I like to feel the tooth marks made on this one by northerns and muskies and remember the times and the people that were a part of them.