I was a big baseball card collector in the late 80s to mid 90s. 

My love for the card collecting and the game itself waned after the ‘94 strike. My love for the game eventually came back, the card collecting never did.

Vintage Garden Tools
that I've used a lot from 1968 to 1998



Rake a Trowel for weeds


I didn't bother use the rake tool here but I did use the trowel a lot and that's the most useful tool around of the two. The rake was very useful working around gardens that has rose bushes and certain planets are prone to cut you if you don't wear gloves. Regarding gloves, I didn't care for them at all - except wearing them in the rose garden and around hedges that can give you a paper cut sensation.



Trim Grass Cutter


Before Weed-Eater ... this was the primary tool to trim edges around grass areas and that's tool is bound to give your hands a crampy feeling ... fortunately I was both right-handed (primary) and left-handed (secondary) and able to use it quite well in both hands and I work a half-hour on one hand and switch operation ... took me a half a day to do the trimming of a quarter of acre of land.



Pruners for Roses and other flowers


My Mother taught me all the tricks of pruning roses and I've started trimming them around 1980 when my Mom started getting arthritis in her hands and couldn't do it. I had three Rose Gardens to prune and that's took me about a hour and a half to do all three - or 30 minutes each. Again, I was able to use both hands to prune them but - I prefer to use my right hand the most because I don't always prune all three at once. I did one garden a day and that's what I did after school.



Hedge Cutters


Hedge Cutters - Use these on a monthly basis pruning our hedges and I was a master of pruning them and was the fastest in our family because I learned how to do hedges at a young age of nine years old watching my Dad doing it. When, I was at that age, I took over the job using a six foot ladder and I managed to convince my Dad that I can do it quickly and effortlessly and it's takes me two days to do the entire yard.




Pruners


I used these pruners for trees - especially Apple and Cherry Trees in our yard and I didn't like pruning these trees because they take a long time to do so. Every Fall ... I usually take the entire month of November to do all the trees in our yard and that's pretty much a very difficult job to do so.

My Dad was faster than me and he usually get called for the job and so did my older brother that lived with me (he's four years older than me) and he loved doing so. 

codystarbuck ... (I think it was you) shared a video kiosk called "Redbox" and I was surprised to see one in my regular shopping store that I go to for the past 30 years and the video kiosk looked exactly like this picture below.





My Redbox been in operation since 2006 -- 12 years so far!

Windows 95








Windows 95 is 23 years old, and watch this video and you'll be amazed of the some of the comments that kids today makes about our computing system back then.

Vintage Hair Dryers
Handheld - Part 1 of 2


1930 Supreme Hair Dryer




1935 German Hair Dryer




My Uncle and one of my older brother used this one for a dozen years before it's gave itself out and they couldn't find a suitable replacement.


1940 Portable Hair Dryer




At the start of World War Two ... My Uncle used this during this conflict because I remembered seeing it at his home in the 60's and still have it. It was used at least 25 years and finally it's gave itself out.

We used to have a set of Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedias.
And yes, I still miss Blockbuster.

I was thinking of the same thing too ...