All About Pocket Knives

1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:26 pm

BTW- I love that Barbara Eden episode, she was a real cutie. She and Hal Linden (Barney Miller) were both born in 1931 and are still kicking.

PringleTree wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:56 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:26 pm

BTW- I love that Barbara Eden episode, she was a real cutie. She and Hal Linden (Barney Miller) were both born in 1931 and are still kicking.

Yes, that episode is one of the more popular and well-known. As a brunette Barbara was also quite the looker. Her face as she gets "hot and bothered" in "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964) is something to see. She was also a brunette in The Virginian, playing a reporter.

Chris J.

wlf wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 4:33 pm And then she said : "Chat Gp transcribed my answer to the question , but I just use Turo when I need a vehicle"

Us older folks are becoming obsolete.

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:27 pm Times have changed for me, ... in that I used to dream of what to do with Jeannie if I found her bottle... Now I dream of what to do with all the knives I could have her make appear out of thin air....

OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:22 pm One day I got a call transferred to me in the shop with a young customer who had a question on adjusting an electric power tool. To make the adjustment he needed, I told him to locate the large yellow headed bolt and turn it clockwise. There was a long silent pause and then he said "which way is that?"

OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:03 pm Happened the other day, I was talking to someone about growing up on the farm and we had a party line dial wall phone and our number had a certain ring for us that was different than anyone else in our party. And how we had local calls and long distance calls that cost extra. My 12 year old great niece, who of course has her own i phone stood and listened with her jaw on the floor.

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:42 pm

OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:03 pm Happened the other day, I was talking to someone about growing up on the farm and we had a party line dial wall phone and our number had a certain ring for us that was different than anyone else in our party. And how we had local calls and long distance calls that cost extra. My 12 year old great niece, who of course has her own i phone stood and listened with her jaw on the floor.

When I was a sprout living out in the country in Southern Illinois this is what we had for a phone. It was a party line and our ring was something like two shorts and a long. Anyone on the line could pick up at any time and listen in on your conversation (and there were some who did). If the person you wanted to call, was not on your line, you had to call the operator and have her connect you. Not everyone had a phone.

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 6:43 pm I recall well when my grandparents, both maternal and paternal, had no running water, no indoor toilets, no electricity and no telephones. My paternal grandparents were the first to get electricity, then they got a party line telephone. IIRC my maternal grandparents got electricity about the same time, but did not get telephone service for many years. Thinking back on it, telephone service was probably available but they couldn’t afford it. Neither grandparents ever had “indoor plumbing”. Those under-the-bed chamber pots were important! I remember grandpa always said in the winter the outhouse was too far from the house, and in the summer it was too close.

Both grandmothers cooked on wood, or coal, stoves. My dad and his siblings pooled their money and bought grandma a new Roper electric range/oven. She didn’t like it, especially for baking, so continued to bake in the old wood stove. She had a well pump on the enclosed back porch, along with a wash basin, but she didn’t like that well for drinking (and cooking) water, so drinking water had to be carried about 100 yards to the house from another well. Drinking water was also on the porch, in a bucket with a communal dipper for drinking.

I also remember when I was a kid we had a “swamp cooler” in our living room window, and whole house attic fan. In the summer if you were lucky about midnight it got cool enough to sleep. The summer after I turned 14, dad came home from work one day and said he needed me to help him get something out of the car. It was a Fedders window unit air conditioner, to replace the old swamp cooler! Kids nowadays are incredulous when I tell them I was 14 years old before we had “air conditioning” (in Texas). Their response is typically “I would die!”

Ken

PringleTree wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:56 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:26 pm

BTW- I love that Barbara Eden episode, she was a real cutie. She and Hal Linden (Barney Miller) were both born in 1931 and are still kicking.

Yes, that episode is one of the more popular and well-known. As a brunette Barbara was also quite the looker. Her face as she gets "hot and bothered" in "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964) is something to see. She was also a brunette in The Virginian, playing a reporter.

Chris J.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 2:13 am

PringleTree wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:56 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:26 pm

BTW- I love that Barbara Eden episode, she was a real cutie. She and Hal Linden (Barney Miller) were both born in 1931 and are still kicking.

Yes, that episode is one of the more popular and well-known. As a brunette Barbara was also quite the looker. Her face as she gets "hot and bothered" in "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964) is something to see. She was also a brunette in The Virginian, playing a reporter.

Chris J.

Guess which episode was on tonight?

Modern Slip Joints wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:12 am While I'm not old enough to have experienced most of what you guys have described, you might appreciate my mother's (1923-2023) toilet facilities on the farm. More specifically they were in a revine at the bottom of the bank at the edge of the lawn. Like all old folks the pages of last year's Sears catalog were their toilet paper. The difference was instead of sitting over a hole the out house was over a year round creek. No oder and the mess immediatly carried away. The creek emptied into salt water about a mile away. A few youngsters who think they're helping save the planet have suggested the set up might not meet current envivomental regulations.

If you want to make the kids think you are a crazy old ludite ask them if they can get from their bed to the toiket without using their cell phone's gps traveling directions.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:19 pm I remember having an outhouse at the farm close to the barn, in spite of also having an indoor bathroom. I think the outhouse went with the old log house, my dad tore both of them down when I was little and before. He did save some Chestnut 2"X6"s from the house though.

Sorry I missed "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao." Maybe it will be on again.

PringleTree wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 9:01 am

1967redrider wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:19 pm
Sorry I missed "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao." Maybe it will be on again.

Thursday afternoon, shortly after I read your post on The Manicurist episode being aired, I turned on the tv to find The Brazos Kid episode (1964) of The Virginian being aired, featuring Barbara as guest star and with reddish/brown (chestnut) colored hair.

Chris J.