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Weird Pocket Finds
- Thread starter resortes805
- Start date
- Messages
- 11,397
- Location
- Covina, Califonia 91722
Small notes.
Reads: Inspected by Number 31.
"Help! I am being held Captive in a CHinese Fortune Cookie Factory!"
Reads: Inspected by Number 31.
"Help! I am being held Captive in a CHinese Fortune Cookie Factory!"
Braxton36
One of the Regulars
- Messages
- 166
- Location
- Deep South, USA
Dimes must have been a big thing to carry around - back when they could actually buy something. Found a 1906 Barber dime in the pocket of a great-grandfather's white pique full-dress vest.
Maj.Nick Danger
I'll Lock Up
- Messages
- 4,384
- Location
- Behind the 8 ball,..
I just bought a summer weight officer's army tunic.
With a 20th airforce patch on the shoulder. I noticed a smaller ring of stitching inside the stitching of the patch so I removed it to find the original patch. A bonus 8th airforce patch underneath. ( I know, it's not as cool as finding $250!)
With a 20th airforce patch on the shoulder. I noticed a smaller ring of stitching inside the stitching of the patch so I removed it to find the original patch. A bonus 8th airforce patch underneath.
( I know, it's not as cool as finding $250!) LittleArquette
New in Town
- Messages
- 9
- Location
- Jackson,Mississippi
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I was in downtown Jackson a few weeks ago,and bought a nice blue,straw knit purse. Im not sure the exact time period of it,but Im guessing maybe 50's or 60's.
When I got home and started to put my things in it I opened a small zippered compartment in it and found some old movie tickets. Hid them away somewhere for safe keeping,but sadly when we had foundation work done on the house I seemed to have lost them.
I was in downtown Jackson a few weeks ago,and bought a nice blue,straw knit purse. Im not sure the exact time period of it,but Im guessing maybe 50's or 60's.
When I got home and started to put my things in it I opened a small zippered compartment in it and found some old movie tickets. Hid them away somewhere for safe keeping,but sadly when we had foundation work done on the house I seemed to have lost them.
Mr. Rover
One Too Many
- Messages
- 1,875
- Location
- The Center of the Universe
I've found matches, a Mercury Dime, price tags, and used hankies in my vintage buys. Not really a pocket, but the coolest came with a hat - It's a little card that you slip into the ribbon that says "Like hell it's your hat- put it back!".
tallyho
One of the Regulars
- Messages
- 175
- Location
- Southern California
when I was 11th birthday, my parents got me a G-1 jacket. (this was in 1980 when they were still cheap!) In the inside pocket was a peice of yellowed paper with all sorts of writing in grease pencil. It had map co-ordinates, squadron #s and call signs, take off and rendezvous times. I checked the the co-ordinates on a map and they were for east of Midway Island! the squadrons on the paper were listed as TORP 6 BLACKJACK, TORP 8 "I forgot the code name". I thought I found the jacket of one of the piolots of the famous battle. after a couple of years I figured out that my dad had played a trick on me. Anybody want to buy Midway vets G-1?
Spitfire
I'll Lock Up
- Messages
- 5,061
- Location
- Copenhagen, Denmark.
In the suitcase...
In a beautifull leathersuitcase, which belonged to my grandfather, I found nothing! But in a compartment inside that suitcase I found one of my grandfathers dressshirt and a pair of silver cufflinks.
Imagine that suitcase had been standing on my grandmothers loft years and years after his death. It was only when she died - 20 years later - that the suitcase came out, and I decided that I would like to keep it.
I still wear the cufflinks now and again.
In a beautifull leathersuitcase, which belonged to my grandfather, I found nothing! But in a compartment inside that suitcase I found one of my grandfathers dressshirt and a pair of silver cufflinks.
Imagine that suitcase had been standing on my grandmothers loft years and years after his death. It was only when she died - 20 years later - that the suitcase came out, and I decided that I would like to keep it.
I still wear the cufflinks now and again.
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Snookie
Practically Family
- Messages
- 880
- Location
- Los Angeles Area
My husband found a matchbook for the Hollywood Palladium in a jacket pocket. Note the phone number on the spine -- HOllywood 9-7356.
- Messages
- 10,554
- Location
- Bozeman, MT
found something strange in a 10 dollar thriftshop special jacket (newer civilian bomber jacket- I like it- and it's just so beat up and funky. It's got the look - you know?)
anyway- it's a nickel- but someone's soldered a convex piece of nickel coated brass onto one side. It's worn through the nickel in parts, exposing the brass (or whatever metal it is) underneath.
you can click it and it sounds sort of like a cricket.
but I have no idea what it is or why it was in my jacket.
anyway- it's a nickel- but someone's soldered a convex piece of nickel coated brass onto one side. It's worn through the nickel in parts, exposing the brass (or whatever metal it is) underneath.
you can click it and it sounds sort of like a cricket.
but I have no idea what it is or why it was in my jacket.
Twitch
My Mail is Forwarded Here
- Messages
- 3,098
- Location
- City of the Angels
Hey Ghos7a55assin I bought a hat with the same sign!
carebear
My Mail is Forwarded Here
- Messages
- 3,026
- Location
- Anchorage, AK
Dinerman said:
What year is the nickel?
Maybe it's an old wartime era "clicker" similar to the ones they used in Normandy.
McPeppers
One of the Regulars
- Messages
- 278
- Location
- South Florida
Its kinda outta place since it has nothing to do with a pocket I got an old Tin Box for storing old Baseball cards in and found an original "orange" test cartridge for the NES "Legend of Zelda"
Apparently these were only given to the developers of it so its mighty rare. Good thing too cuz I'm a Zelda nut lol.
Apparently these were only given to the developers of it so its mighty rare. Good thing too cuz I'm a Zelda nut lol.
- Messages
- 10,554
- Location
- Bozeman, MT
well- I just figured it out. My strange nickel is nothing more than a funky old "magic ********* nickel"
you fill it with water, and push on the convex thing on the back. it ******s water out of a tiny hole I hadn't noticed until this morning.
you fill it with water, and push on the convex thing on the back. it ******s water out of a tiny hole I hadn't noticed until this morning.
Jay
Practically Family
- Messages
- 919
- Location
- New Jersey
Well, Dinerman, these things happen. I was found a rock in my that had leaked some sort of liquid on my bureau. It was on my mind for weeks. My nephew looked at and was stumped, my 40-year-old brother could only guess it might be something vaguely biological. Finally I feared for my life, expecting something weird to happen with it and decided to throw it out. On the way to the kitchen I stopped to ask my Dad, since no one else could figure it out. He looked at it and said without hesitation, "It's a jellybean."
I know how you feel.
I know how you feel.
Bud-n-Texas
Practically Family
- Messages
- 971
- Location
- Central Texas (H.O.T.)
Nothing vintage about it, but
I purchased a pair of jeans a year ago, when I got home with them I found a $20 bill in the pocket:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
I purchased a pair of jeans a year ago, when I got home with them I found a $20 bill in the pocket:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
BJonas
One of the Regulars
- Messages
- 186
- Location
- Somewhere in rain-drenched Florida
Nothing too exciting. I bought this great old topcoat, and in the chest pocket was appoximately 483 napkins from some restaurant.
(None of them used, though)
(None of them used, though)
Marc Chevalier
Gone Home
- Messages
- 18,125
- Location
- Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California
Why don't I ever find a fedora in one of these pockets?
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Archie Goodwin
One of the Regulars
- Messages
- 167
- Location
- New Orleans
Not a pocket
I bought a cedar storage chest at a garage sale. The owner of the house was an elderly woman who had to move to a nursing home. Her children and grandchildren were running the sale. A friend and I picked the chest up to put it in his truck, and found a bundle of letters taped to the bottom. We took a look at them, and they were the letters the grandfather had sent to his wife while he was away during WW2. I gave them back to the family, and they gave me the chest for free.
I bought a cedar storage chest at a garage sale. The owner of the house was an elderly woman who had to move to a nursing home. Her children and grandchildren were running the sale. A friend and I picked the chest up to put it in his truck, and found a bundle of letters taped to the bottom. We took a look at them, and they were the letters the grandfather had sent to his wife while he was away during WW2. I gave them back to the family, and they gave me the chest for free.
