What was the most popular knife when you were in school?

High School 67-71 The Buck 110 :thumbsup: Still one of my favorites!
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If I remember correctly in the late 50's early 60's most of us kids had what we called a jack knife. Usually had a big blade, small blade, can opener and bottle opener. Very generic, very cheap. Most of the boys had them, I don't remember any girls with a knife of any kind.
 
When I was in grade school you could get expelled for a pocket knife. No one carried one or talked about them.
 
I had assumed that knives were contraband in my high school in the 70s, but I never actually checked the rules. I didn't care much about their rules, anyway. I do know that the principal was not amused to find a Buck 110 in my pocket, but by then, we weren't exactly on good terms.
 
Late '80s to early '90s Long Island, NY: I am the only person I know who regularly carried a pocket knife.
 
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In grammar school back in the 60's it had to be a Case knife. I did not go to college until the 90's and it had to be a Randall.
 
1978 to 1982
Widely popular: Buck110
Popular with me: $3.00 clear plastic/gold dragon handled Japanese single blade folders
 
Mid-late 70’s grade school to early 80’s high school, as mentioned by others probably 90% of the guys had “jack knives” Case or Buck single/double blades. I started with a Case and is was stolen from my locker during gym class my freshman year of HS.
Replaced it with a Buck that I had until about 5 years ago when I lost it when walking the battlefield at Gettysburg.
Sad thing is before that trip I thought to myself it was time to retire that old Buck after that trip.
 
In grammar school (1967) , on Fridays, we were allowed to dress in our cub scout uniforms.
So I usually had a Camillus fixed blade on my belt. It was my fathers knife and he took it back from me after i quit the cub scouts ( he still has it)

In high school ( 1973 - 1977) most of the guys I hung out with, carried cheap lock backs and they would practice wrist flicking them in the school yard. (I'm not kidding and we smoked cigarettes too). I carried a cheap stiletto that I bought for a dollar or two at a flea market.

But I new the difference between cheap and brand name knives. I've been a hunter since I was 14 and always carried a Case folding hunter or a Schrade fixed blade.
 
I mentioned earlier I never heard of Case knives 'til I was 34 (1997). Being a San Diego native, I'm a bit ashamed to say I'd never heard of Buck Knives 'til I was 14. In 9th grade/junior high, a male typing teacher was sitting at his desk sharpening a pencil with his Buck Cadet. I walked up and asked if I could see it, and in return showed him my Schrade medium stockman. He told me it was a Buck knife called the Cadet, and that they were made right over in El Cajon. I asked him where he bought it (it was at a marine supply store) and bought my own there for the princely sum of $15.

The entire conversation actually took place *during class*. That would NEVER happen today. I credit that teacher (Mr. Medina) with introducing me to Buck Knives.

Jim
 
70's - early 80's - Buck 110 and Schrade, openly carried on a belt everywhere including school. Also various drug store pocket knives, mostly dollar items back then but the lasted forever.

My father and his friend worked on lobster boats when I was young and all the kids worked on the boat as well, so my 110 and Schrade saw daily hard use in salt water and I can't remember a single blade failure.
 
I can't say that I carried a knife every day, but it was common for me during school. I honestly don't remember knives being carried by other students other than hood types. Maybe like me, they just kept them in their pockets. This is back in the 60's mostly. Don't recall ever seeing a Buck 110 until the 70's.
 
Buck anything. For schoolboys it was likely the 303 or similar, a lot of adults including teachers and boy scout masters carried the 110.
 
Highschool was in Colorado, graduated in '98. Regular pocket knives weren't common, but this was the heyday of Leatherman and competing designs from Gerber and SOG (and cheap knockoffs), and these were more frequently seen (but still not "common"), particularly among the "ropers" (guys that lived outside town on ranches and emulated Billy Ray Cyrus). Back then there weren't any restrictions on knife carry in school apart from the state's laws. The Columbine massacre happened a year later.
 
Rambo First Blood (the movie) came out in 1982, and if I'm not mistaken, nearly every kid in America throughout the 80's and early 90's wanted a cool Rambo knife with a hollowed out handle you could store a survival kit in...
 
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