Re: First Antique?

Posted by dr.sportster on September 21, 2006 at 14:50:04 from (67.72.98.91):

In Reply to: First Antique? posted by Nebraska Cowman on September 21, 2006 at 11:43:33:

I dont think I noticed old stuff other than cars at any early age.My next door neighbor who was older had a model T Ford.The thing I remember was when a kid named Skippy Reed [his dad was Skip Reed who played the desk sargeant on"Car 54 Where Are You"]got a banana bike.Even though most kids had regular,bigger 24" wheel bikes I just had to have one of these.I found a junk 20 inch bike and got some wild color spray cans in Woolworths and convinced my Dad to buy me high handlebars at a local bike store called Juniorville.Next I had to save up for the banana seat.It was the coolest bike,or so I thought until a kid who moved out to Jersey from Brooklyn let me ride his ten speed.Then I had to get one of them.I ended up buying his.It was a Rollfast.Later we all took forks off one junk bike and jammed them doubled up on another to make a chopper bike extended front end[held on with 1/4-20 bolts].My freinds Dad had a welder and made an upsidedown framed bike where you would sit real high up and still reach the pedals.It was all good until he wiped out hauling fast down a large hill,called tank hill because the town water tank used to be up there.Then we found a junk motorcycle with no engine we would take turns riding down the same large hill or towing it with two bicycles at once.Now I have a decorative junk metal garden in front of my house with many weird objects and hubcaps,Singer sewing machines and junk pressure gauges from dumpsters.Inside we have all kinds of old bottles, lanterns,iron objects and sorta low value old stuff.My wife and I dug out all the old bottles from behind the barn when we moved to this house.Whenever I see a dumpster I poke my head in and you never know what you might find.That lantern you have there would go right on my fireplace mantle cause its too nice for the metal garden.Any thing cast iron with writing I drag home if I can lift it.

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