When I was a kid......

Is it time for another one of these threads already?

Oh, I just saw the newest Spyderco Vs. Benchmade thread whiz by, must be that time of the week again.

-When I was a kid instead of finding knife information on the internet we had to ask our grandads about knives and then hear about the good ol' days.

:p
 
Heh... I'm getting old enough to remember those good old days. And I'll tell you what. You can keep 'em. I'll take the present day over "the good old days" every time! ;)
 
I carried a knife everyday since I was 8...I am now 47 and have a 14 year old son, who I have to warn about not carrying a knife in the street as todays law enforcement thinks it is OK to arrest a kid for carrying a simple knife....I did the gun and badge thing for NYC in the 1980s and back then if you arrested someone for carrying a knife you would have been laughed out of the station house.....times have changed....
 
The knife that I've found myself missing the most in recent years was an auto that my Uncle gave me when he left to go in the Navy back about '62 or '63.He is only about 5 or 6 years older than me and when he left,he gave me some of his most prized possesions.I carried that knife to school for awhile,I think I ended up swapping it for something,I was only in elementary school at the time.
 
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?
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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.
Steel choices were "regular" or stainless.

I'm 20 years and five days older than you. So most of your statements apply to me also. Didn't break knife tips, though.

Ironman, check your profile. You have a message there.
 
I'm only 15 so i'm still a kid i guess, but i to have carried a knife (though not at school) since i was about 7-8, and i still have an ooold traditional boker my dad's grandpa gave to him, which now he's given it to me.
 
Sounds like my experience was pretty much the same. ALL the guys I knew seemed to carry one, as did my Dad, Grandpa, and my uncles. No one thought you were a bad guy if you had a knife then.
No broken tips though until I was an adult and bought a Henkle for kitchen duty.
I miss the days when good people could carry a knife, or even have a gun in the car. These days it seems to me like too many people look down right terrified if you pull a knife out of your pocket top open a box or something.
 
Look at your personal profile under group memberships.
 
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?
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I agree with everything except the knife falling apart after a month. I never expected that and mine never did.
 
Its funny in poli sci this summer, we are doing reports about political issues in groups, and a group dug up a clip about 2 students at a school that had guns in their cars and used their guns to subdue an armed (with gun) bad dude at a school, saved who knows how many lives.
 
How I wish we still looked at knives that way. When I'm at school, I only have my swisscard in my wallet, and even then I would be extremely reluctant to use the knife in it at school. Not because I fear knives, but because there are rules against it.
 
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?
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Oh, that about sums it up for this ole boy. Oh -- that was true for those who could afford or find a knife...which wasn't everyone where I lived.

Using a pocket knife to hurt someone? Impossible! That's what fists are for...:D [Not that any of us could do more than passing damage...]
 
I remember in the third grade I had to go to the office to look for something in the Lost & Found. There was a pocket knife in there. I thought about claiming it, but I knew it wasn't mine, and besides, my dad had taken mine from me for awhile for a punishment. Now my daughter in 4 grade couldn't take a plastic butterknife to school to cut the brownies with.
By the way, I saw more of my own blood as a child, than I've ever seen from my kids. That's a good thing. And my kids all have budding knife collections.
 
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