It's 1978, Dump your pockets.

[heresthedeal]

It was either a Hammer/Imperial, or a clone.
Mine actually had tortoise shell color scales on it.
I traded a SAK for it when I was in 5th grade; I assume now that my friend clipped it from his old man's dresser.
'Would have been worth some $$ if I hadn't lost it...

thanks

 

[22-rimfire]

... Dad was not noted for his free spending so I picked the smallest knife on the card cause it was cheapest. He said if you're gonna get one get one big enough to do something with. So I got the medium stockman and felt like I just won a million dollars.

Great advice from your Dad and I would have felt like I won a million dollars too. It might be the kind of thing my Dad would have said.

 

[Eversharp!]

In 1978, l started my first full time teaching job - junior high social studies. Had a Queen peanut in the pocket with winter bottom scales, a tri-fold wallet and the keys to a 1976 Honda Civic.

 

[338375]

I was 17 in 78. I would have had the key chain with the keys to my 69 Chevelle SS, and the Merc pickup, a lighter of some kind, a pack of Camel Straights, and probably an old Schrade... The car on the trailer didn't have a key
Life was good. I was making decent money and managed to spend all of it on cars... Sorry for the crappy picture of pictures. That was WAY before cell phone cameras.

 

[jc57]

Wallet, comb, keys, Bic lighter, pocket change, pen. That would have been my pocket carry in 1978. College student at the time.

 

[cricketdave]

wallet, keys to a 1978 MG Midget, zippo, and a barlow pocket knife. High school then.

 

[robgmn]

I gotta admit, I have a Mach 5 but it's a new Hotwheels from when the movie came out about 8 years or so ago.

We've got one from Hallmark that hangs on the tree every year

 

[NMpops]

1978- just finishing a 6 year hitch in the Army carrying a comb (still had hair) a Craftsman (Camillus?) Stockman in my pocket and a Buck 12 on my belt.

 

[blade dude]

Everybody had one of these on their key chain.

hey whats that tool to the left back for?

 

[LEGION 12]

hey whats that tool to the left back for?

That's a awl for making holes in leather or wood.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Back in the 70s before they raised the drinkin' age to 21 every self reaspectin' teenage boy carried a church key of somekind. I carried something similar to this old 20s Robeson style of church key I carry now.

 

[mnblade]

Cheapo Valor lockback, a comb in my back pocket, some Hubba Bubba gum, some coins or baseball cards (I was 9 and did a lot of chores to get money for baseball cards).

 

[mnblade]

Assuming you're old enough to have been carrying stuff of interest in your pockets so it's the late 70s dump your pockets.

This is representative of what I had back then, a lighter, harp and a pocket knife, everything a teenager needed.

This knife and other stuff was probably carried in 1878 as well. ;-)

 

[slimb]

A pack of gitanes and a five franc note

 

[Ebbtide]

Awesome pic man. I'm a big fan of grainy B&W photos. Hope you don't mind me saying it looks even better if you crop it square or into a 4x3 IMHO.

Thanks!
I'm a big fan of all the negative space.

But I appreciate the comments

 

[wjthompson]

If I was in the states I was 26 and would have had a house key, office, lab and ice core freezer room keys either a GT 550 Suzuki or 73' VW key wallet and a Swiss army tinker if I was 27 it would be at the end of the year and I would have been traveling about Antarctica with sufficient pocket space for all manner of things such as a signal mirror, a p38 can opener, same Swiss Army knife, extra socks extra glove liners that are just normally known as gloves in temperate zones, sun glasses, special Japanese non freezing marker ( l've tested to 86 degrees below C), regular pencil and pen, sometimes some hard candy or gum. Oh still carried wallet with id, paper money and passport.

 

[leghog]

I pretty much carry now what I carried then excepting now I'll often have a pipe , tobak, and a lighter. Don't recall carrying a bullet pen then either.

 

[NH Hunter]

Everybody had one of these on their key chain.

This was my first knife and was my accomplice to the scar on my left index finger. I still carry it occasionally. Not nearly as pristine as the one in the picture, but very serviceable.

 

[plumberroy]

Leather billfold probably with a image of a dog chasing a coon on it (I was big into coon hunting) keyring with keys for 71 delta 88, house, garage and a p-38 (same p-38 still on my keyring) Uncle Henry trapper pattern knife , Match safe filled with strike anywhere matches, can of Copenhagen .
I was 16 gave $200 for the car, Money made from coon and muskrat hides With that 455C.I. it would pass anything but a gas station
Roy

 

[Ed G]

El Cheapo Barlow with "faux bone" white handles, a pack of Marlboro Reds, a Zippo, tri-fold wallet, and the keys to a '68 Camaro with a 250 V6 and a bondo and primer gray paint job. College boy.