Signs, back in the day

TMarsh said:
OK I give up, I'm from Texas where we say yonder as a measure of distance, what is "caulk" besides the stuff we put around winders
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Logger's wear shoes with metal spikes, caulks, to help walk the downed trunks. During the civil war the shoes had hobbed nails in the soles so a lot of reenactment based businesses here in the civil war area have "No hobnail shoes" signs on the door to keep their wooden floors from damage when the period wearing geared reenactors come to town.
 
Caulk boots, calk boots or cork boots are leather nail-soled boots worn by loggers in the Pacific Northwest and Canada for walking on logs.
 
fordfarm said:
Caulk boots, calk boots or cork boots are leather nail-soled boots worn by loggers in the Pacific Northwest and Canada for walking on logs.
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It’s pronounced “corks”, at least in western Washington. Most the loggers usually wore hard soled slippers/moccasins to and from their work bus (crummy).
 
Dick Carne said:
I recall that one of the teachers in the high school that I attended had this posted on his chalk board the first day of school one year:

"He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, usually winds up in this class. ..."
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Isn't that the Dunning-Kruger effect?
 
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In my supplier factories I used to frequent, there were always "Safety First, Please Do Not Spit on The Floor" signs everywhere. Most of them had the 'p' made into an 'h' though. When one plant was being torn down, I found an original one which now hangs in my garage.
 
In an auto repair garage near my childhood home:

Tune-up Service:
Points and plugs pitted - $10
Plugs and pits pointed - $10
Pits and points plugged - $10
Get all three for $25.
 
Don't know if this is from back in the day but my wife bought me a sign for my shop. It reads "You can't buy Happiness- but- you can buy cars and that's kinda the same thing."
 
TMarsh said:
OK I give up, I'm from Texas where we say yonder as a measure of distance, what is "caulk" besides the stuff we put around winders
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OK Texan, I was wondering when someone would ask .... Caulked boots were (are) steel spiked boot soles that the old time lumber jacks wore, especially the men that road the logs down river.

Joe B
PS, A teacher once told me ..." the only stupid question is the one not asked"
 
Ripley's Believe It or Not many years ago claimed a tombstone in a cemetery had this inscription:

"Here Lies the Body of Jonathan Blake,
Stepped on the Gas Instead of the Brake"
 
On a store counter there was a jar with pennies in it, and a sign that read

Need a Penny, Get a Penny
Need two Pennies, Get a Job.
 
Stop Signs had cats eye marble reflectors.

Street signs were 4x4's, painted white, with the street names running vertically on the sides of the post.

I can remember my dad sending me to the gas station for a gallon of "white gas" with a quarter. Gas was $0.239. I don't know why I remember that.
 
GRutter said:
Stop Signs had cats eye marble reflectors.

Street signs were 4x4's, painted white, with the street names running vertically on the sides of the post.

I can remember my dad sending me to the gas station for a gallon of "white gas" with a quarter. Gas was $0.239. I don't know why I remember that.
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I'm old and from the country. As a kid I remember the cats eyes reflectors. We didn't have road signs. It was 'turn right two roads past the school, unless you took the fork, then you double back through that road by the red barn". Of course that barn hasn't been painted in thirty years.


Actually when I moved to my home here in Virginia in 1980 I would tell people the route number and get a "Don't know them numbers." I finally found out I was two miles north of Crossroads store. But, Crossroads store burned in the 60's and it was a cornfield. LOL
 
Ted Duke said:
I'm old and from the country. As a kid I remember the cats eyes reflectors. We didn't have road signs. It was 'turn right two roads past the school, unless you took the fork, then you double back through that road by the red barn". Of course that barn hasn't been painted in thirty years.


Actually when I moved to my home here in Virginia in 1980 I would tell people the route number and get a "Don't know them numbers." I finally found out I was two miles north of Crossroads store. But, Crossroads store burned in the 60's and it was a cornfield. LOL
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As a kid, I remember directions like that. “Turn right after the barn (that’s no longer there).” That was fine for locals, but visitors were clueless.


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"the man who loans tools died" "this shop is protected by a genuine wild cat" signs still there...
 
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