'Remember when' or 'these kids today' nostalgia thread for old fogies like me

[Blooie]

Just found this pulling weeds from out of under our grape vines. Amazing how good old metal is still solid.
Anyone know what it is?
Mid-evil torture device? Metal forging tool I imagine? Maybe it was used to grab a ember out of the fireplace to light a pipe?
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I might be wrong but I think that thing is a horseshoe nail puller.

 

[WVduckchick]

I was getting groceries today and asked the lady where i could find a mailbox to mail my letter. She says, you mean the post office? Yeah, or a MAIL BOX!?! What, people do not know what a mail box is any more?

The only ones i can think of around here are IN FRONT OF the post offices.

 

[BantyChooks]

Nope but I remember many times seeing hundred yrd trails of the stuff following cars, or the stuff blowing in the wind wrapped up around guard rails. Maybe it's a good thing nobody uses them anymore, bet the tape ended up in many birdsnests back then.

The only ones i can think of around here are IN FRONT OF the post offices.

There are quite a few around here.

 

[CapricornFarm]

The only ones i can think of around here are IN FRONT OF the post offices.

Yeah, like , why bother?

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah, like , why bother?

Duh....so you can drop off from your car.... I use our one and only mailbox in town (yep, to the side of the post office) all of the time.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Duh....so you can drop off from your car.... I use our one and only mailbox in town (yep, to the side of the post office) all of the time.

I know, but I would rather have them spread around town instead of going to the post office every time!

 

[Alaskan]

Well yes....that would be nice.

 

[Chicken Girl1]

Where in VA are you? We are near Chatham.

I live between Fredericksburg and Stafford.

 

[ChicKat]

my first car was a 1957 Simca -- made in France....something like 30mpg even back then. It was pink and white. Notice the wind wings on the front seat windows.

 

[igorsMistress]

@Blooie you got a new do! Very cute!