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Posted: 10/9/2022 1:27:55 PM EDT

I was going through some stuff and came across this. I think I’ve posted it in a thread here before, but I think it’s pretty cool.

It’s a coin from a Hawaiian beer company and my grandfather was in the Navy at Pearl Harbor so I imagine it is from that time frame. I imagine he had a lot of cheap beers with his buddies on that island before the fun began.

What random cool stuff have you got sitting around?

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Posted: 10/9/2022 1:38:08 PM EDT

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Jay

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:38:21 PM EDT

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I have a 1940 presidential campaign button, Republican flavored. It was anti-FDR and written by someone who didn’t know some guys weren’t as weak as him, and that someday Viagra would be invented.

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Posted: 10/9/2022 1:40:53 PM EDT

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Esstac Flectarn magazine pouch. Not released yet. So I know I’m the only person on arf that has one as of right now.

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:43:17 PM EDT

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A 55 Viking Convertible

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:43:25 PM EDT

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This drawing was done for my father by a mama-san in Vietnam in 1970.

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:46:18 PM EDT

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OP better start running if that black dot in the palm turns red...

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:51:39 PM EDT

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That’s pretty awesome.

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:54:20 PM EDT

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Edited to add that I don't have one, but I thought it was something pretty cool that I seriously doubt anyone here owns.

And why, when posting from my phone, does the board software rotate my pictures? Is that a known bug?

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:55:23 PM EDT

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Thanks! The wife had it matted and framed professionally for my birthday.
I also have his short timer stick.

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:56:03 PM EDT

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WTF Scott?

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:56:03 PM EDT

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Just say no to data mining threads LOL

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:57:38 PM EDT

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Watched a guy in Thailand make this out of water Buffalo hide.

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:57:57 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/9/2022 1:58:58 PM EDT

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Home Observatory by Colo CJ, on Flickr

Posted: 10/9/2022 1:59:41 PM EDT

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Data mining? Really? Ain’t nobody coming for your trinkets.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:00:09 PM EDT

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Glock 22.5 with dot (bottom)

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Posted: 10/9/2022 2:01:30 PM EDT

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I’d definitely hang that on the wall.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:03:52 PM EDT

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Esstac Flectarn magazine pouch. Not released yet. So I know I’m the only person on arf that has one as of right now.

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What kind of mag pouch is that? Kind of looks like a very fashionable lady’s purse with the zippers at the top.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:04:38 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/9/2022 2:07:47 PM EDT

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Hand built gas powered curved dash Olds rep made in the 50's. Hand brakes, foot brakes, buggy springs, everything grease zirked. Painted and hand pinstriped.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:08:04 PM EDT

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Here’s another Pearl Harbor artifact. A whore house token. Fucking sailors….hahaha.

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Posted: 10/9/2022 2:08:37 PM EDT

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I think I'm the only one here that has one of these:

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:11:17 PM EDT

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I guarantee you no one on ARFcom has one of these.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:11:35 PM EDT

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My phone booth

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Posted: 10/9/2022 2:13:47 PM EDT

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NVM

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:14:16 PM EDT

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What is it?

ETA looks radioactive?

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:15:55 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/9/2022 2:16:22 PM EDT

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Badges from two Confederate Veterans Reunions -

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:16:33 PM EDT

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You win!

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:16:44 PM EDT

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I got a lamp that my grandfather made for my dad during WWII. The other one is the one he made for my uncle.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:19:09 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/9/2022 2:20:02 PM EDT

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Is that a dazzler? I haven't seen one in a long time.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:21:35 PM EDT

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What is it?

ETA looks radioactive?

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I guarantee you no one on ARFcom has one of these.

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What is it?

ETA looks radioactive?

Was guessing uranium

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:23:44 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/9/2022 2:25:12 PM EDT

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A 55 Viking Convertible

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Nice boat! I've been out on that exact boat many times for a Bahamas trip. Lots of great memories.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:27:05 PM EDT

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The last Union Jack of USS Miami SSN-755 that was also flying on 9/11/01.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:27:09 PM EDT

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Colt Trooper my dad carried in Vietnam with 2 confirmed kills.

You can just make out the two notches he cut in the grip. I also have one of the dead commies guns.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:29:28 PM EDT

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In before someone posts a video of themselves having sex.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:32:23 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/9/2022 2:35:06 PM EDT

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A 55 Viking Convertible

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nice ride. I'm a post man myself but Vikings are defiantly nice.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:35:38 PM EDT

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I don’t have a photo handy but I have an original patch from the USS Thresher (SSN-593)

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:39:02 PM EDT

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Battlestar Galactica FTL jump key.

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:40:09 PM EDT

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Franchi Para Takedown 22lr. Top pic is mine. Bottom pic is not mine, but that's what the whole kit-and-caboodle looks like. Which I have. Produced in the late 70's. Only 8000 were made. Only 3000 of which were imported to the USA.

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Posted: 10/9/2022 2:43:38 PM EDT

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Edited to add that I don't have one, but I thought it was something pretty cool that I seriously doubt anyone here owns.

And why, when posting from my phone, does the board software rotate my pictures? Is that a known bug?

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Wow. That's a capybara, isn't it?

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:46:19 PM EDT

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the Zig Zag man...LOL

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:46:30 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/9/2022 2:47:46 PM EDT

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WOW...Papa's favorite joint...

Posted: 10/9/2022 2:50:07 PM EDT

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A bunch of figurines from Walt Disney himself, that nobody can identify. They may be junk or they may be one-off prototypes...One of these days I will retsart my quest to ID them.

I have a baseball signed by tom candiotti. I bet no one else has one, because no one wants one! His wife was friends with my aunt, so he would sign stuff for her to give us as Christmas gifts.

ETA - I also have a great-grandfather that has a street named after him in NY. He was killed in the line of duty by one of his subordinates. Some really awesome people got the city workers there to give me the street sign.