What is it?

[rick_ingram]

Here's another one.....non-pharmacy related.

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Bingo! It is a boot jack. My grandfather made this one...and used it daily upon his return home from the fields.

 

[DNK]

Last week my MIL passed away and while we were cleaning her apt. I found this
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Is this what I think it is??

 

[Basil]

Very sorry to hear about your mother in law. I think that is a roller skate key from the old metal roller skates like I had as a kid.

 

[DNK]

My thoughts too.
Haven't seen one of them since the late 60's
Can't figure why she had it.

 

[CaptRandy]

Janice Joplin sang about them.

 

[Gliderman8]

It definitely is a roller skate key. I had the very same key for my skates when I was a kid.

 

[DNK]

OMG Elliot,
Left yourself WIDE open for this one
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[PAUL161]

I knew what it was but never used one! Too hard to skate in a plowed field, plus there were no side walks on the farm, even the road was dirt! :highly_amused:

 

[Gliderman8]

Hmmm.... think I'll have a beer and ponder this.

 

[Basil]

Janice Joplin sang about them.

Melanie!!

 

[DNK]

I need a very deep hole

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Melanie!!

Yup - not Joplin.

 

[Boink]

Oh, great, now I have THIS in my head today...

 

[Basil]

Boyhood crush 4 Melanie!

 

[NutmegCT]

Have mercy! Does that ever bring back memories! :blush:

 

[Boink]

She sure was cute. Memorable tunes (and I liked her earlier stuff best).
She's now 67. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Safka

 

[DrEntropy]

As that tune was airing I'd just received a shiny-new Honorable Discharge from the USAF and was pounding the pavement in downtown Pittsburgh, PA looking for a position in corporate America. Good times come to mind hearing it now.

EDIT: Funny aside: Mitsy's steel-wheel skates hang from their leather straps on a nail in the garage... such a "normal daily sight" I'd forgotten they were there.

 

[coldplugs]

BCF needs a "Like" button....

 

[aeronca65t]

We have a little pub down the street from our place. Melanie played there last year to a packed house (we could not go due to other commitments).

~Our Local Pub~

 

[Banjo]

This is Gram. That's one of his favorites too.
You can see more of GramDragon on his own page on Facebook, by searching #gramdragon on instagram, and even a bit by searching Google.