Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things

[koldgold]

I like that one.

[TripleF]

Scott your book report will be due a week from next Tuesday.

Oooof, haven't heard that for years.....and it hurts to hear it.

Amazingly somebody's "get" and "comprehend" what is included in these pages.....


BTW.......Thanks Phil for posting pics of the original KFC! Now I want me some!

[Just Plain Dave]

Is the nothing automobile related that SOMEONE hasn't tried???

[mrwatch]

For glenbad, What exactly is this??? it is a guitar pick made from a piece of tagua nut. A type of palm tree that is found along the Pacific coast of Brazil. I have whole one. They also made buttons from them. People do wood burning decorations etc. A nice family piece.

Phytelephas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wikipedia
They are commonly known as ivory palms, ivory-nut palms or tagua palms; their ... of their seeds (tagua nuts or jarina seeds), which resembles elephant ivory.

Bob Saunders
member of Tulip City gem and mineral club.

[MITCH RAPP]

50 Cal Beer Opener and Knife.

[ken98k]

My family took a little road trip to Corbin, Ky. today to visit the very first Kentucky Fried Chicken location. It's still an operating restraunt but there's a little museum inside. Here are a few pictures of the original kitchen where the Col. got his start.

I went to the Colonels birthday party (I think his 80th) back in the late 70's. It was a quite a gala event.
At that time, the then governor of Kentucky, owned Kentucky Fried Chicken. I don't recall his name or his wife's name but she was real looker and I think she was a movie star.

[tjmurphy]

John Y. Brown, Jr. married to Miss America, Phyllis George.

[orvet]

Those of you who enjoy old tools might enjoy this.
My wife and I stopped while traveling this weekend and browsed a little antique store in The Dalles Oregon.
Of course I was looking for knives but what they had was pretty used up and not especially impressive to begin with. I begin to look for old tools and most of those were pretty used up as well but I did find this one nice Phillips screwdriver.

The stamping on the shank of the screwdriver says:
PHILLIPS LIC -1
PAT 2046837
2046840 A
MADE IN U.S.A.
CARBON STEEL

The metal ferrule of the handle is also stamped MADE IN USA.

I am not very good it is finding patent numbers but I am wondering if this is an early version of the Phillips screwdriver, perhaps the version that was patented giving that design the Phillips name.
I just thought it was interesting and for three dollars it's a decent screwdriver.

[FRJ]

That's a great find there, Dale. Usually the tips are well worn and the handles are beat up. After all it's just a screwdriver.

Just googled Phillips: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F._Phillips

All the more interesting.

[orvet]

Great info!
Thanks Joe!

What makes it more interesting to me is that my wife's family is named Phillips.
They are from Oregon and Henry Phillips was from Portland Oregon.
Wonder if they were related?

[koldgold]

Dale, I have Phillips screw drivers to screw in and to screw out.
One side of the four blades are knurled; when trying to screwing out, the knurling locks the blade and the tool will not pull out of the screw. Where was it made? It has U.S.A. stamped on it... Ken.

[FRJ]

Dale, I dug out a couple of my old Phillips drivers and found basically the same stampings as yours except the one with Blue Point stamping.

Ken, a knurled tip is unusual I think. How big is the driver?

[orvet]

Dale, I have Phillips screw drivers to screw in and to screw out.
One side of the four blades are knurled; when trying to screwing out, the knurling locks the blade and the tool will not pull out of the screw. Where was it made? It has U.S.A. stamped on it... Ken.

Ken,
I have no idea where it was made.
Though Henry Phillips was from Portland Oregon, the company that developed the screws was the American Screw Company in Providence RI. I don't know who made the screw drivers.
Henry Phillips was backed by Janzen Knitting Mills in Portland but I doubt they made the screw drivers.

Joe,
isn't Blue Point an economy brand of Snap-On, the one without the lifetime guarantee?

[FRJ]

Dale,
I didn't know about the relation of Blue Point and Snap on until now.
It does say ............ Snap On tools Inc. ....... on the ferrule.
Kenosha, Wis.

[koldgold]

My screw drivers for screwing in and out, were both made by Snap-on... Ken

[royal0014]

Who listens to a dumb old rodent anyway?

[roofsc]

saw this on the highway

[ken98k]

took this yesterday

[philco]

Beautiful shot Ken.

[glennbad]

Nice shot, Ken!

[roofsc]

knife

[jerryd6818]

Drop that by ten years and give me another decade.

We've been through a World War (for me, barely), a Police Action, a war that tore this country apart, a short war we won and are now in a war that no one can figure out how to win.

We've seen Television bloom, become a commercial success and become ubiquitous, with a household without TV becoming an oddity.

We've seen the vinyl record be replaced by the 8-Track tape which was replaced by the cassette tape, which was replaced by the compact disk, which has been replaced by the I-Pod and on and on.

We've seen the invention of panty hose, the micro-wave oven, the Kuerig coffee maker, cordless tools such as saws, drills, weed eaters and chainsaws.

We've seen birth control pills invented and become as common as asprin in the medicine cabinets of fertile women.

We've seen the invention(?), maturation and growth of travel by jet planes.

We've seen the demise of travel by trains and buses.

We've seen the development and building of the Interstate Highway system.

We've seen men leave the bounds of earth, orbit this little blue marble so far away that there is no atmosphere. Some of those men have even landed on the moon (One small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.)

We've conquered Polio and Small Pox. Replaced defective hearts with one that isn't and learned to repair defective hearts with minimally invasive surgery.

We survived the British invasion of the boy bands and saw Country Music become Pop Music before our very eyes (personal opinion there).

We've seen the computer learn to walk, run and grow up to become part of our everyday life. Sometimes in ways we don't even recognize.

Ma Bell evaporated into thin air, atomized by politicians and our phones have lost their cords. Our phones are no longer "just phones". They now store our music, take our pictures, allow us to talk to others without actually talking to them (text messages), allow us to send pictures to others, allow us to surf the World Wide Web, take messages when we are unable to answer the phone, store all our contact information for friends, relatives and anyone else we choose. Given the right phone and the right App, we can even monitor and control our home from thousands of miles away.

Our cars are not made like they used to be and thank God for that. Current cars don't start to rust after three years and are much more dependable. Cars of today are driven way into the hundreds of thousands of miles instead of 80,000 to 100,000 miles with the last trip to the junkyard on the back of a truck. Gas mileage has doubled, tripled and is still getting better.

We've seen this country grow to a world power that everyone envied, then slowly deteriorate by our own hand. And now we stand by (helplessly it seems) as our country is slowly destroyed by a duplicitous, narcissistic ego maniac that the citizens of this country freely elected.

Technology is growing by leaps and bounds while mankind remains a Neanderthal in the thinking department.

And all of that in just the past 70 years.

[gino]

Here is a lighter I came across at the indoor flea market a few weeks ago, I bought some flint and lighter fluid and she works perfect. I don't smoke except for a occasional cigar but I really have become fond of carrying it in my pocket and she has become a part of my edc
I don't know if its called a trench lighter because it is stamped "made in Japan: on the bottom edge
its also stamped "smoke stone" on the top edge and "brass no5" on her middle
Anyone familiar with this one?

[jerryd6818]

Over the years, I had a couple of lighters made in that style. Your go to man on AAPK for lighters is T.J.

[tjmurphy]

I used to have some like that, Gino, but I think that I sold them a couple of years ago. I do still have one that is kind of historic in that it is the lighter (not the actual lighter) that started the ZIPPO brand. The story goes that Blaisdell (the creator of the ZIPPO lighter) was at a party and a well dressed gentleman came out on the balcony to smoke. Blaisdell watched him fumble around with a lighter that required the removal of the top section to light (similar to yours) and ask him why he didn't buy an automatic lighter. The gentleman's reply was, "because this one works". It was a two-piece lighter made in Austria. Blaisdell bought the patent rights for the lighter and immediately put a hinge on it. By 1932-33 it had morphed into what we now know as the ZIPPO lighter.

I also still have a couple of WWI "trench art" lighters.