Things Of the Past you Remember

[eyeguy 54]

I remember recurve bows. Wood arrows. Bear broad heads. Still have the bow. Funny thing about the pic. Mom decided she wanted a pic right after church so I just threw shirt and cap on. Lol

[gunner55]

1 hour ago, smurfy said:

hey...…. 3 cases of bottles for 9.99. best I could do in high....er after I turned 18!!!!!!!!!!

So that's when you started walking down the other side of the street.

[smurfy]

25 minutes ago, gunner55 said:

So that's when you started walking down the other side of the street.

Maybe.

[papadarv]

I remember my 12' Sears "Wide" aluminum boat with a 4hp Martin recoil less start (wrap the cord around flywheel) fishing with are now considered antique lures. Some of my collection from years back. Googled the black man in a barrel found him selling for $100 (mine not for sale). Most were made from wood. Still recall the excitement of the 18# Norhhern caught on the zebra mouse lure on Sand lake by Bowstring. Didn't measure lenght back then. 

Edited April 16, 2020 by papadarv

[BobT]

Fishing WITHOUT sonar, underwater cameras, GPS, or electric trolling motor.

[Kettle]

Grew up using this ice fishing, I remember seeing people with FL8's and being able to see their lures and fish and I wanted one so bad

[IceHawk]

 The old Green box timeless classic. A lot of us grew up with those I even had a hummingbird super sixty for a while. They would still help you catch fish simple but effective!  Bought my first Vex at Lees sport shop another lost bait shop that was awesome!  

Edited April 16, 2020 by IceHawk

[DonkeyHodey]

1 hour ago, Kettle said:

Grew up using this ice fishing, I remember seeing people with FL8's and being able to see their lures and fish and I wanted one so bad

YES!  that was Grandpappy's old depth finder!

 

I remember being a little twerp in his boat and always wondering what LO-K-TOR meant...  ?lookter.  ?lockter

[Austin12345]

Papadarvs got a river runt!! googled that thing and there worth about $100

[Kettle]

16 minutes ago, DonkeyHodey said:

YES!  that was Grandpappy's old depth finder!

 

I remember being a little twerp in his boat and always wondering what LO-K-TOR meant...  ?lookter.  ?lockter

I actually have two of them, both in good shape, batteries are hard to find for them! I do like how they stowed away!

[PRO-V]

3 hours ago, papadarv said:

I remember my 12' Sears "Wide" aluminum boat with a 4hp Martin recoil less start (wrap the cord around flywheel) fishing with are now considered antique lures. Some of my collection from years back. Googled the black man in a barrel found him selling for $100 (mine not for sale). Most were made from wood. Still recall the excitement of the 18# Norhhern caught on the zebra mouse lure on Sand lake by Bowstring. Didn't measure lenght back then. 

I had a pile of those also but we used them when I was a kid and eventually lost them to snags or northerns. Had the black man in a barrel too but don't know what happened to that. Looking back on it that lure was very racist especially when you activated the barrel.

[Hoey]

I grew up in North Mankato.  

I remember fishing creek bullhead with my Dad near Lake Crystal.  We caught and kept hundreds, filling the trunk of the car.  

I remember going up north was a trip to Dassel.  We once lost the boat trailer into the ditch.  Broke the lower unit off the motor.  Dad and his friend Archie fixed the holes in the boat with cut up beer cans and random bolts found in the tool box so we could go fishing.

I remember watching the John Deere Bandwagon live filming, as we lived next door to the KEYC TV Station.

i remember having to leave summer "rec" to see and meet Hubert Humphrey land in a helicopter in our backyard.

I remember going to the land fill and finding fixable lawn mowers and other valuable items.  The landfill was the bank of the Minnesota River.

I remember Mom making Chef Boyardee pizza from the boxed kit on Sunday nights and if times were good, we would get hot dog coins as a topping.  We would watch the Ed Sullivan Show, Hee Haw, Glenn Campbell Show, and Flip Wilson.

I remember walking beans on my Uncle's farm near Truman.  I'd get to spend a couple weeks each summer there.  We'd ride a Briggs and Stratton powered mini-bike out the field road and back, a 100 times a day.  Collecting eggs from the chickens.  Grinding feed for the pigs, cows, and chickens.  I watched my Grandpa sniff the corn - so I sniffed the corn and got a kernel way up into my nose.  LOL.  Feeding, washing and milking the cows with buckets.  

I remember our first snowmobile, a '72 Yamaha 338 - we had it made.

I remember i need to get back to work.....

Thank you and have a great day!!!

 

[whateverisbiting]

Seeing the old tackle box reminds me of when my brother bought one from a garage sale when we were much younger.  It had a bunch of really old lures lots of crazy looking stuff.  When we fish in Canada, it is easy to catch 100 northerns per day per person or more, just depends how many hours you want to spend chasing them.  To make it more interesting, my brother brought up the tackle box with the aim of trying to catch a fish on each lure.  As a bonus, there was a pocket fisherman in there, which if you remember is a closed face reel with a short rod that folds up into a tackle box.

 

And yes he succeeded in a day to catch a fish on each lure using the pocket fisherman never even changed the line on the reel.  I caught more, but that was no different than usual.

[eyeguy 54]

Loved that green box! 1976. Put us on the spots on Pelican Lake by Dunvilla. Put down a couple yellow markers and back and forth we would go. They had a house on broad water beach if I remember right 

Edited April 16, 2020 by eyeguy 54

[papadarv]

3 hours ago, PRO-V said:

I had a pile of those also but we used them when I was a kid and eventually lost them to snags or northerns. Had the black man in a barrel too but don't know what happened to that. Looking back on it that lure was very racist especially when you activated the barrel.

I would do a video on the black man in barrel but not really appropriate, besides the rubber band has lost its elasticity and fails to lift the subject. Seems to happen to a lot of things that get really old.

[DonkeyHodey]

3 hours ago, Hoey said:

I grew up in North Mankato.  

 

...we lived next door to the KEYC TV Station

DUDE!!!  Me too!  High Five!

 

Man, I used to run by your house then 'cause that was my old running route.

[Mike89]

28 minutes ago, DonkeyHodey said:

DUDE!!!  Me too!  High Five!

 

Man, I used to run by your house then 'cause that was my old running route.

I grew up by Minneopa golf course!!  makes me wonder if any of us ever crossed paths!!!  too funny!!!!  and Hoey I remember many of those things too!!!  many bull heads came out out the Minneopa creek for us!!!  and the Minnesota River too for fish!!

[DonkeyHodey]

14 hours ago, Mike89 said:

I grew up by Minneopa golf course!!  makes me wonder if any of us ever crossed paths!!!  too funny!!!!  and Hoey I remember many of those things too!!!  many bull heads came out out the Minneopa creek for us!!!  and the Minnesota River too for fish!!

Yes!  High Five to you too!!!  (I left a few divots on that course as an idiot teenager...) 

So you'd remember the smell of the old Honeymead factory?

(I fished the Minnesota a few times; caught my first turtle with a hook and line there... (~20 minutes later got him safely off...)  However, my sweet fishing spot was just up the highway from you:  where the Blue Earth and the LeSeuer river came together was a great spot to sit with my pappy, a bucket of KFC and nightcrawlers catching walleyes, cats, sheep and carp.  Good times!)

[Mike89]

5 hours ago, DonkeyHodey said:

Yes!  High Five to you too!!!  (I left a few divots on that course as an idiot teenager...) 

So you'd remember the smell of the old Honeymead factory?

(I fished the Minnesota a few times; caught my first turtle with a hook and line there... (~20 minutes later got him safely off...)  However, my sweet fishing spot was just up the highway from you:  where the Blue Earth and the LeSeuer river came together was a great spot to sit with my pappy, a bucket of KFC and nightcrawlers catching walleyes, cats, sheep and carp.  Good times!)

went by honey mead almost everyday!!!  they used to stage on top of the hill by the old junk yard and that area..  just down the road from kato cabins!!!!  had a few burgers and maybe a few beers too!!!  yea fished those areas too...  fun times!!!  even caught a mud puppy once...  and a snapping turtle too!!    big cat fish at times too!!!

[smurfy]

4 hours ago, Mike89 said:

went by honey mead almost everyday!!!  they used to stage on top of the hill by the old junk yard and that area..  just down the road from kato cabins!!!!  had a few burgers and maybe a few beers too!!!  yea fished those areas too...  fun times!!!  even caught a mud puppy once...  and a snapping turtle too!!    big cat fish at times too!!!

Ha, I heard you couldn't catch a cold!!!

[eyeguy 54]

Need me to slap him mike? Lol

[smurfy]

1 hour ago, eyeguy 54 said:

Need me to slap him mike? Lol

 I'll behave.

[papadarv]

Remember pre-cleaning many of these prior to putting them in the washer. Happy wife happy life.

[smurfy]

37 minutes ago, papadarv said:

Remember pre-cleaning many of these prior to putting them in the washer. Happy wife happy life.

Oh yea. All 3 of my kids went through them. I thought I had the world by the azz when we did disposable ones when we went to the cabin.

[Mike89]

12 hours ago, eyeguy 54 said:

Need me to slap him mike? Lol

I don't think it would do any good!!!  

[smurfy]

1 hour ago, Mike89 said:

I don't think it would do any good!!!  

you ever think for a minute that how I got to where I am today??????????dang nuns!!!!!!!!!

 

I keep looking at those cloth diapers pictures and wonder how many people actually use then today???????

[Rick G]

1 hour ago, smurfy said:

 

 

I keep looking at those cloth diapers pictures and wonder how many people actually use then today???????

Im sure there are a lot of places in the world where disposable diapers are not common place. And I know there are people here in America that still do for various reasons

Edited April 18, 2020 by Rick G

[Hookmaster]

I inherited my grandpa's and dad's tackle boxes: Heddon River Runt Spook Floater, Bass Orenos, Lazy Ikes, Daredevils, some kind of spinner rig that look like a bumble bee, wooden slip bobbers, etc. I bought a green box in the late 70s, I think from Kmart. It ate through the pair of 6 volt batteries so when I got my boat I soldered on wires for a cigarette lighter adaptor to run off the trolling motor battery. I fished for years with a spinning rod and reel that my dad got for putting money in the bank.

[PRO-V]

Smurfy, it should be nice and quiet on your lake now with no fish in it. You should be able to social distance quite easily.

[Mike89]

chicklets..........