Big Boys Hobbies

This is for us old duffers.

james45 said:
You guys are just teenagers try being 82 with 12 major surgeries with 10 pounds of steel in my neck,back and complete right shoulder replaced.OOORAH SEMPERFI🇺🇸.
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What , 10 lbs of SS ? Take that out and get an upgrade to titanium. Much lighter.
 
hoser said:
Those shops that sell the penny candy items we used to get are like you said, Still Around. but yep you will pay way more than what we did back in the day. It's fun to think back on the things we experienced as young people. And every once in a while, you'll come across something either in a store or see an old add that will give you that warm and fuzzy feeling. Something that the young people today may never experience.
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Everything was different back then... today the young are wimps and whiners :lol:
 
Cfmct said:
I loved sen-sen and blackjack gum.. I can still get the gum along with teaberry gum in a local shop... have you seen what they are charging for sen-sen these days for one tiny pack? They are out of their minds..

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I liked BlackJack gum, and also Clove, Teaberry, Pepsin, and Dentyne. I don't know what they charge for sen-sen but the price of a pack of gum these days is pretty high I would assume. I no longer chew gum.
 
diggin4clad said:
I liked BlackJack gum, and also Clove, Teaberry, Pepsin, and Dentyne. I don't know what they charge for sen-sen but the price of a pack of gum these days is pretty high I would assume. I no longer chew gum.
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When I was buying sen sen it was like a quarter a pack... today they want $30 bucks what are they nuts?
 
hoser said:
Those shops that sell the penny candy items we used to get are like you said, Still Around. but yep you will pay way more than what we did back in the day. It's fun to think back on the things we experienced as young people. And every once in a while, you'll come across something either in a store or see an old add that will give you that warm and fuzzy feeling. Something that the young people today may never experience.
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All of us kids spent a lot of money on penny candy. There were plenty of stores that had it. We also liked those wax lips and mustaches........
 
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My sister worked the soda fountain at a drug store in downtown Mt. Clemens Michigan. My mother would take me there and I would get a cherry coke. You know, the REAL fountain coke and two small ladle's of cherry syrup. Dang! That was good stuff.
 
hoser said:
My sister worked the soda fountain at a drug store in downtown Mt. Clemens Michigan. My mother would take me there and I would get a cherry coke. You know, the REAL fountain coke and two small ladle's of cherry syrup. Dang! That was good stuff.
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My favorite was Vanilla Cokes. Super sweet. My mother would always get Lime Rickeys.
 
hoser said:
I was going through some old photos of my family when I was growing up. There were a lot of shots of us having picknicks together and that got me thinking about my days up until 1965. Michigan always had a bottle return policy and we would either walk, or ride our bikes down the country roads looking for pop and beer bottles. Now keep in mind these were $.10 each and some days they would really pile up. We would turn them in at a small store down the road from my home and sometimes get up to a couple bucks for them. And that change was ALWAYS silver! And yes we would always turn around and buy pop chips, and candy with that money. It makes me shudder to think how many old coins were used to rot my teeth out. Thats where the old saying comes into play.' Dumb too early, Smart too late"!!:blink::waiting: Oh how I would like to go back to that area and do some hunting. Sad part is most of those places we played are now housing projects or office buildings. For those of you in southern Michigan that would be able to hunt in the Mt. Clemens area let me know and I can direct you to places that look still open on Google maps.
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KOB said:
I'm having a tough time digesting you got a dime a bottle on returns up until 1965.
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John Madill said:
In Michigan you currently get 10cents for bottles and cans.
Back in the 1950s it was 2cents for the bottles.
But a candy bar was only a nickel back then.
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Wow, back when I was old enough to collect and cash in soda bottles (later 1950's and early 1960's) they were redeemable for 2 cents a bottle so it obviously varies by state, but hey with 5 cent candy bars, ect. it didn't take a lot of bottles to buy a small supply of snacks or some small toys like balsa wood airplanes :lol:

I wish I had the insight back then to save a bunch of those silver coins :roll: :lol:

of course if we had a time machine like this we could go back and detect coins before clad :laughing:

Time machine for detectorists

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