Anybody Remember Back When?

[turnkey4099]

I did play slot machines for a while way back then.

As U know slugs did not work so I got a brain wave and decided to drill a hole in the coin and use a length of fishing leader as a tether.
Worked great! Got the odds card so lit up that we'd simply shoot all 5 balls at once and go collect.

On the flipper machines I often noticed small holes drilled on the side to manually activate a high score bumper with a length of stiff wire.

Went in the AF in spring 54. Our parade hats came with a metal stiffener around the peak. First think I learned was how to extract that and it worked fine in the pay per use washer and dryer machines. No coin or other substitute needed.

 

[turnkey4099]

Any help with this? At the morning coffee meeting things of old time trivia (as in this thread) came up. One member swears he had a 49 chev with one of those gas heaters. I am positive those were gone by at least the mid 30s. I drove 36, 37,38, 2 chevs and they all had the now normal water heaters. I can't even imagine after market gas heaters in cars. I had heard of gas heaters in volkswagons and I think they were also available in the old cars (pre 1935)

 

[ch1ch2]

I just thought I was old.

 

[turnkey4099]

Any help with this? At the morning coffee meeting things of old time trivia (as in this thread) came up. One member swears he had a 49 chev with one of those gas heaters. I am positive those were gone by at least the mid 30s. I drove 36, 37,38, 2 chevs and they all had the now normal water heaters. I can't even imagine after market gas heaters in cars. I had heard of gas heaters in volkswagons and I think they were also available in the old cars (pre 1935)

edit: I just check JC Whitney, non listed. I thought maybe after-market.

 

[fried1765]

Any help with this? At the morning coffee meeting things of old time trivia (as in this thread) came up. One member swears he had a 49 chev with one of those gas heaters. I am positive those were gone by at least the mid 30s. I drove 36, 37,38, 2 chevs and they all had the now normal water heaters. I can't even imagine after market gas heaters in cars. I had heard of gas heaters in volkswagons and I think they were also available in the old cars (pre 1935)

I had the selling dealer install a gas heater in my brand new VW in 1964. (bought it NEW for $1200 CDN)
It always scared me when it lit off ..... with a little roar.

 

[k0ua]

And up into the 40s those bottles were in a thing looking like a chest freezer. Up to their necks in very cold water. Held in horizontal slots and the mechanism would only allow one bottle at a time to be removed.

We had those for the concession stand at sporting events, but the main pop machine (Coke) was a dry upright refrigerator machine with a sophisticated coin mechanism. Junk "coins" did not work in that machine. The bottles were at an angle and rolled down to the vending "hole", You opened a long narrow glass door and after putting in your dime, you could reach in and pull the bottle out of its clutches by its neck and another rolled down to the hole. It all made a unique sound.

 

[k0ua]

I had the selling dealer install a gas heater in my brand new VW in 1964. (bought it NEW for $1200 CDN)
It always scared me when it lit off ..... with a little roar.

Gas heaters in Volkswagen's make sense. No radiator, no water jacket, no heater. But it doesn't' make sense in a 1949 Chevy to me. I can imagine having it installed as an option though.

 

[jerrybob]

Sail boaters are still pooping and peeing in the water! It grinds in up and out it goes...

SR

Gotta have holding tanks here now....I pee in the water when kayaking....but don't tell anyone! :laughing:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Any help with this? At the morning coffee meeting things of old time trivia (as in this thread) came up. One member swears he had a 49 chev with one of those gas heaters. I am positive those were gone by at least the mid 30s. I drove 36, 37,38, 2 chevs and they all had the now normal water heaters. I can't even imagine after market gas heaters in cars. I had heard of gas heaters in volkswagons and I think they were also available in the old cars (pre 1935)

I believe that a heater was a factory option in 1949, and perhaps much later than that. I recall that when I was a kid, advertisements for used cars often said "Radio and Heater". There was an after market gasoline heater called a "South Wind". Although not hugely popular, I recall seeing them in a lot of old Chevys. I think it is extremely likely that an old 49 Chevy had a South Wind. Not unusual to buy a car in those days without a heater or a radio and to install an aftermarket unit.

 

[ovrszd]

I checked the engineering specs for 1949, and they don't show a heater as standard equipment. It is not even listed as an option. A heater/defrosted is listed as an accessory from the parts department to be installed by the dealer or customer. I haven't looked at 1936-38. I find it very hard to believe that a heater was not at least a factory option.

Edit: I found the 1936 & 37 to be the same. No heater data on the 1938.

My Dad bought a '40 Ford Coupe Deluxe new. It had two options. A heater. A passenger side windshiel wiper.

 

[ovrszd]

How many times ya reckon this Coke bottle has been refilled??

 

[dragoneggs]

How many times ya reckon this Coke bottle has been refilled??


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Do we bother guessing... do you have the answer? :laughing:

 

[k0ua]

How many times ya reckon this Coke bottle has been refilled??


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Some. It has some wear and tear on the lettering, but I have seen worse.

 

[PILOON]

Re gas heater; I seem to recall that it was Stewart Warner that made the south wind heater and that it was not very different from the Eberstuder gas heaters found as options in early VW 'bugs'.
Some early aircraft also used them.

 

[PILOON]

Speaking of 'dumping overboard' in my teens there was a very popular municipal beach in the town next door.
The sandy beach always had a fine layer of silt near the shoreline, it sort of oozed between your toes.
The claim was that the sand had a clay content.
WRONG
The municipal sewage was simply free flowing into the river and that was a mere 1000 ft or so upstream.
The fine 'clay' was simply poop.

 

[oosik]

My first Jeep was a WW2 military jeep. It had some brand of gasoline fired heater. As I remember, it was either on or off. It would get that louvre, running under the windshield, REALLY hot. Run the heater and your gas mileage was just about cut in half.

 

[LouNY]

I had a 74 VW Thing with a gasoline heater.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Then I guess the first three sentences from my post # 167 don't mean anything. The GM data must be all wrong. :confused3:

I'm not looking for a pizz fight over sematics; my point was that they came from the factory WITHOUT a heater. I bow to you and the GM archives, from which the statistics flow. I know that my 41 Chevy and my two 50 chevys all had hot water heaters, which I assumed were factory options. In this area, a heater was almost a necessity...ergo a dealer "accessory" would funnel a few extra bucks to the dealership. Makes sense; considering the "accessory" was more than likely made by, or for, GM.

 

[k0ua]

Speaking of 'dumping overboard' in my teens there was a very popular municipal beach in the town next door.
The sandy beach always had a fine layer of silt near the shoreline, it sort of oozed between your toes.
The claim was that the sand had a clay content.
WRONG
The municipal sewage was simply free flowing into the river and that was a mere 1000 ft or so upstream.
The fine 'clay' was simply poop.

That paints such a pretty "mind picture"... :yuck:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

That paints such a pretty "mind picture"... :yuck:

Reminds me of my brief...but exciting...barefoot days on the farm.