OHHHH, the variety we once had!!

kamlooky said:
This is all neat and chit............but with that new fangdangled camera and booth et-all,
how 'bout sum fotos of them fancy pre drowned maps of B.C. fore'n they flooded owt the
top end?
Eye noze yewz gartzs'em.
B.C. before the big Hydro eye deers came along and drownd the province.
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I think you are asking for pictures of the old aviation maps of BC, made before the Peace River dam at Hudson's Hope drowned a lot of the north.
The problem is, the maps are too large. Your idea is good for certain parts, so they can be properly seen in a standard picture.
Any particular spot?
 
kamlooky said:
This is all neat and chit............but with that new fangdangled camera and booth et-all,
how 'bout sum fotos of them fancy pre drowned maps of B.C. fore'n they flooded owt the
top end?
Eye noze yewz gartzs'em....
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Forget encryption. This is the lingo that will defeat CSIS and the NSA. Although if you have a Gmail account, I bet you get a lot of sponsored ads for Beverly Hillbillies memorabilia.

hometownhero said:
Sounds like a wonderful time to be alive.
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Yep. Real, printed books and magazines. Elmer Keith and Jack O'Connor were still alive and arguing over calibres and velocities. We could "go play outside" without dire warnings from some government twerp that "it might not be safe." (It wasn't always, but we survived anyway.) No annoying beepers going off when you failed to do up your seat belt - because there weren't any seat belts. Didn't have to watch Mad Men because my dad's office looked just like the set. (I was too young to know about any office shenanigans. though.) And it was a relief to graduate from short pants to real trousers. :)
 
nw mb said:
...man...gettin' misty-eyed here...and i thought that i was just getting over S.I.R.! :HR:
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S.I.R. seemed such a downer, when it succeeded the old Sydney I. Robinson, designation of the old fur buying and trapper's supply store we were so familiar with as kids.
Every rural Canadian boy couldn't wait to open their annual fall brochure when it arrived. There were all the latest gimmicks to get a fox or weasel to step into your trap.
And how we would pour over their list of prices paid for fur. Large ermine (weasel) $2.75-$3.00, prime squirrel 35 cents.
But on shipping we found out it took a darn good weasel in prime condition and well cared for, to bring over a dollar, while a good squirrel skin would fetch 10 to 15 cents.
Even so, many a farm boy bought his first 22 rifle by selling fur he had caught, to Sydney I. Robinson. And in Eaton's catalogue one could buy a single shot "rabbit Rifle," for $4.95, delivered to your door, and paid at the Post Office when it arrived. Larger, maybe better 22 rifles made by Cooey, would be seven or eight dollars, also shipped C.O.D.
 
H4831 said:
I think you are asking for pictures of the old aviation maps of BC, made before the Peace River dam at Hudson's Hope drowned a lot of the north.
The problem is, the maps are too large. Your idea is good for certain parts, so they can be properly seen in a standard picture.
Any particular spot?
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Spots.......... like where you were in yer book.
Reference pages to fotos.
Where yewz gartzs the plane stuck.
And where Brewski gave owt the Easter egglings et all.

But the most importatance wun wood be the bigg'un X where the metal
detech-tor gizmo would make-um lartzs oh noyze.

Yu know, the berried chort ker-pow, ker-pow.
 
All those pretty scales, and all built by either Ohaus or Webster, I think.
H4831 said:
S.I.R. seemed such a downer, when it succeeded the old Sydney I. Robinson, designation of the old fur buying and trapper's supply store we were so familiar with as kids.
Every rural Canadian boy couldn't wait to open their annual fall brochure when it arrived...
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City boys too ;)
Dad always referred to it as Sidney I., not sure when the name changed, but he may have been a bit set in his ways.
 
H4831 said:
On equipment related to reloading. Take a look at the choices in powder scales.

And then there were more------

And still more to choose from----
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I have and still use a Redding no.1 that my dad bought in the sixties I believe. Works like it is supposed to this day.
 
DFB PLINKER, I also have the Redding #1, shown second one down on the third page. I too, got mine in the early sixties and have used it constantly ever since. I even have the box it came in! Maybe I will take a picture of the box.
 
kamlooky said:
Spots.......... like where you were in yer book.
Reference pages to fotos.
Where yewz gartzs the plane stuck.
And where Brewski gave owt the Easter egglings et all.

But the most importatance wun wood be the bigg'un X where the metal
detech-tor gizmo would make-um lartzs oh noyze.

Yu know, the berried chort ker-pow, ker-pow.
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Now eyes git u! Will have to think about that.
I have given two different people, one a CGN, all the info on the buried bang bang, for them to look for it, but both fell through and they never got there.
 
Well, when Sir Dewglass gits hiz arse home with the fers and starts the tangle of undloading and hizz missus starts'a natter'n
and natter'n and then summore.
Me pense that wood be the uppertune time to say............Hayya Sir Dooglass, time to spin dah prop and go fer a fly.
I'd set him in the Kaptans chair and yew deye reck lee beside him.
I'd enn kerr age yew to tell him whut ferr on the bushie pilot s'perience yew gartzs.
Me? in the back seat ponder'n me next question and see witchy one of yew is right.
I have me trusty medal dee tetch tore with the fancy schmancy earphones to make the geyeger kownter buzz.
Be fun fun fun and summore fun.
Then play short stick on finders keepers.

Whut say yew?
 
Interesting. just a few years ago I bought the "Lyman-Ohaus D-5" as pictured, except it appears that mine is living under an assumed identity as a green "RCBS model 5-0-2".
 
I'm so glad that variety died off, my RCBS Chargemaster is all I need. I can't imagine taking that huge leap backwards to a balance beam scale again.
 
Some stuff I look at from time to time
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I have two of those old Redding scales, one I bought in the early '60s when my Postal salary was $ 1.43 per hr., and the other bought about 10 yrs. ago on Ebay.
They both still work perfectly well...
 
Kevan said:
I have two of those old Redding scales, one I bought in the early '60s when my Postal salary was $ 1.43 per hr., and the other bought about 10 yrs. ago on Ebay.
They both still work perfectly well...
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And we don't have to buy test weights, to check if they are reading correct!
Keep them clean and undamaged, check zero balance on a level surface and they will weigh correctly forever.
 
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