^^ Love the sig hyperloop. Very true. The trouble I have is I always overdo the late November birthday now, which leaves me scratching my head for Christmas presents.
Had to laugh at the bottle opener comments.
We used to use car door hinges, the edge of concrete steps and lots of other readily available items.
Then it dawned on me, the one that got us yelled at in the 1970's was the kitchen cabinet drawer handle/bottle opener. So owning a home with original 70's knotty pine cabinets I had to go check out mine to see if that long since forgotten bottle opener method had been used way back when by previous owners...
Yup, found one.
After 3 or 4 tries that soft pine lost the battle vs the metal cap(s) of the day. So you moved to the next one hoping your parents didn't notice the new scar. Problem was that fresh uncoated wood showed like it had an on switch.
We used spit to 'darken' the wood back then.
And it appears the previous owner of my house did similar.
But ole pop musta gotten radical with whoever did it as there's only one in my house.
The rest look like this...
At my pops house every drawer in the kitchen has a bottle opener scar. We were thankful for the twist top, but I think my parents were more thankful. lol.
One more for this year...
Early 1910's Rayolite 3D from the AT&SF railroad.
Also just got in some 1950's TungSol PR7's for a nostalgic beam from a nice old chrome'd 3D HIPCO of that period.
Edit: the Rayolite seller sent an "oops" message and a refund. No 3D light headed my way. Dratz!
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Edit 2: seller said he had mis-labled the Rayolite as the Railroad light but the railroad light was an early Ray o Vac. So I rebought the Rayolite and bought that Rayovac too.
The actual railroad light. Another 3D
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