Remember when

We had carbide fueled cannons. Carbide was plentiful back then (60-70s). Used in helmet lanterns too, before "headlamps" were a thing.
Now I can't find a steady supply of it.

 

All the kids had these dumb azz boots in the 60s.
They sucked getting on and off even when you feet were in plastic bread bags.

 

could be, theres videos and one you can see 2 in it. But could be all the same guy

 

Froze my feet off in those things, plastic bags and all. We used to call them galoshes, the little buckle things would break. I remember my first pair of Herman Survivors, those were cool in the 70’s.

 

$38 (Set of 2 Tubes) Bangsite Carbide Ammo for Field Cannons - 100 Shots per Tube

https://www.amazon.com/Tubes-Bangsite-Carbide-Field-Cannons/dp/B00FYV2GNY

 

Phuck them boots

 

Micky Mouse boots, army surplus, came in black and white

 

Saw that. Wonder if it works well in the lanterns (I still have one). When we used it, it was just a rock that was put in water. Captured the gas it put out. Wonder if this paste off-gasses as good as or better?
Obviously, it does (somewhat) as that's why the cannon goes boom. I'm just hesitant about the amount of paste required and the longevity of the off-gas to burn steady for illumination (instead of "boom").

Some research on my part is needed...

 

It's not a paste, It is dry and granular. The big bang cannon had a small scoop built into the detonator for measuring it

 

Look further down that same Amazon page and you'll find this.

$30 HQ Company Calcium Carbide (1)

https://www.amazon.com/Calcium-Carb...d49-411f-a263-0d490dfdb9d5&pd_rd_i=B078X347X8

 

Hated mine

 

We also used bread bags inside of these boot.

 

I had to wear those in Germany

 

Had to wear those in grade school over our dress shoes,
later on when older we used bread bags over our socks in the "snowmobile" boots we wore (rubber bottoms around the feet with nylon uppers that had a zipper & cord cinch around your calf).

 

What we called muk-luks.

 

Muk-luks

(Couldn't edit & paste these photos in my earlier post. Had to create a new post.)

What they looked like in the 1940s:


What they look like today:


With THICK felt liners & sole inserts, of course.
No zipper as described by @sparkystaco though.

 

Yes... I had some of those too after the rubber ones. They were a couple inches from bottom of calf. felt liners, draw string and zipper. It was brutal to get "undressed" when I got to school, hands got numb even inside my deer skin mittens.
My rubber ones were olive green with a yellow sole, laces...not buckles. Buckles were lame.

 

Remember when a truck would last 100k miles?

 

That doesn't look like the truck's fault...

 

Well its a Ford…so…