When I was a kid......

Ironman

Ironman

Joined
Aug 16, 2002
Messages
402
There were no one hand openers.
There were no pocket clips.
Every boy carried a knife. Most carried at school, and teachers knew!
We never even once considered using a pocket knife to hurt anyone.
You expected your knife to fall apart after a month or so.
Almost everybodys knife had at least one blade with a broken tip.
Steel choices were "regular" or stainless.
How about you?
 
I'm 26 and it was the same with me growing up. I guess sometimes it's just not how old you are, it's where you're from.
 
No, ppl up here used to be fine with knifes. We walked around the ravine behind my parent's house with pellet guns shotting squirrels and the only comment we get was to not shoot out the neighbour's windows.

Now ppl look you you funny with a multi-tool, and kids are walking around with real guns shooting people.
 
You expected your knife to fall apart after a month or so.
Click to expand...
I still have almost every knife I owned as a kid, 30 years ago. None were very high quality, but none of them "fell apart."

I do have a Pakistan lockback with a broken tip... not of the knife's fault of course. :o

-Bob
 
None of my knives ever fell apart, or even suffered much damage, even playing mumbly-peg. :)

Some kids in my neighborhood in New York City had BB rifles in the 50's. They shot a lot of pigeons with them.
 
I remember my teachers giving me a hard time about my Balisong in High School - but it was a Catholic School in California. Even then they never told me I could not carry a knife. I also remember running around the back areas of Ft. Ord with my pellet gun & my friends.

Things change, and not always for the better.
 
When I was growing up, Case and Ka-Bar were considered "quality" knives!:D

"Buck" knives were considered premium!

Thank God for progress!!:) :)
 
I carried a knife all through high school, so did most of my teachers...no problems there. My first knife kind of fell apart, there was a thin plastic jigged bone looking layer on top of the handle, which broke off in short order. Knife was still useable though. Carbon steel seemed to be more common and looked upon more favorably by those "who knew", like dad and grandpa. -Matt-
 
When I was a kid everyone had a pocket knife, it was just something you never left home without. I lived in the city and I remember sharpening the blades on the curb stones.
 
I carried a knife off and on since 5 yrs old. I remember doing some bone headed things with it in the last year of kindergarten and first two years of the elementary school. Good thing that kids heal fast. I don't think children should have knives without be properly trained.

It's funny though, even adults are scared to have the smallest pocket knives these days.
 
I always carried a knife as a kid. Either a Buck, case or SAK. It was a normal thing to carry one no matter where you were.
 
I carried a Buck stockman the first couple months last school year until somebody ratted me out. They didn't kick me out though. I go to a small private Christian school though.
 
Unfortunately, as we become more of an urban society, things like knives and guns are no longer a part of children's everyday environment. Many parents in our cities today are afraid to even let their children use hammers, screwdrivers, wrenches, etc, until they're in senior high.

I see 20+ year old college students regularly that have never owned a pocketknife, and never even held a pistol in their hand. What a pity that we are losing our self-reliant pioneer heritage.

Ben
 
Ironman,we must be about the same age,I always tell my grandson that I had a rock and a stick to play with,although I did carry a paring knife with a cardboard sheath wrapped with tape in my back pocket in the first grade (late 40s).
 
Esav Benyamin said:
None of my knives ever fell apart, or even suffered much damage, even playing mumbly-peg. :)
Click to expand...
Well, you were probably buying good knives. I went though a lot of flimsy cheapos, but one year I got my Mom to buy me a Schrade folding hunter which survived it all.
 
Ironman said:
There were no one hand openers.
There were no pocket clips.
Every boy carried a knife. Most carried at school, and teachers knew!
We never even once considered using a pocket knife to hurt anyone.
You expected your knife to fall apart after a month or so.
Almost everybodys knife had at least one blade with a broken tip.
Steel choices were "regular" or stainless.
How about you?
Click to expand...

I grew up much the same way, but my knives didn't fall apart or have the points broken off. Neither did my father's or grandfather's pocket knives. Both are still very useable. Dad had his when he waded ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day. He carried it all across Europe and North Africa, and then he carried it 20 more years after he got back home. And, yes, he and I played mumbly-peg out in the yard, too. Fathers were dads back then.
 
I also carried a knife since I was 5,made a lot of my toys to play with...most kids I played with did the same.Seems like other things have changed.Boys are taught NOT to defend themselves,they are told everything can be settled by talking...fighting is violence..violence is wrong!! CRAP...it's even come to the work place,you have to watch what you say,EXAMPLE:I was talking to a friend,known him & his wife for 20yrs.we were laughing about what his wife did..I said,that's just like a woman! A female supervisor on the other side of the room,called me in her office,tried to chew me out for my SEXIST comment.I was floored...told her ...I didn't have time for this CRAP & walked out! I miss some of the freedoms we had!:grumpy:
Jim:
 
We all carried knives at school...heck...a few of my friends ran "trap-lines" every morning and had pistols and shotguns in their cars and trucks...no one ever used them in anger. Funny...now kids get expelled for pretending to shoot with a finger...don't even think of taking a knife to school.
 
This is the first knife I remember having. Good old Boy Scout by Camillus. I was so excited. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
CMBSA8.jpg
 
Ironman said:
We never even once considered using a pocket knife to hurt anyone.
Click to expand...

What kind of weirdos were you, anyhow?
:p

When I was a kid, a knife was a little bit of a fashion statement. I guess it still is for many folks.

I'd like to say us kids with pocketknives used them as tools, but truth be told, they were more likely to be used to carve names into desks and lunch tables than as "legitimate" tools.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top