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40 years ago today.....................................

Hobo Hilton,

Are you mixing trimix for hard hat divers? Were you a divemaster?
 
Ahhh, forty years ago would find me 15 years old and in the woods hunting, during deer season and riding dirt bikes all day, when it was not. Weekend nights were for hanging out at the local putt-putt golf course, because that's where the girls were and because they had a gokart track when the girls weren't around. That's about the time, I stopped being a kid. The next year I went to work and never slowed down. Life was good.
 
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40 years ago, white trash just upgraded to a 3 room log cabin on the far side of the native rez way out at the end of the road of NW BC, almost AK. An old Elan skidoo shared with my brother, and shooting squirrels when I was supposed to be hitting the outhouse and back inside to school.
 
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Hobo Hilton,

Are you mixing trimix for hard hat divers? Were you a divemaster?
That was some of my schooling at that time and later on at Ocenaeering......
Prior to the 80's there were no diver certifications required for the Gulf of Mexico off shore industry. A bit of a slow down in the oil patch and then they waited us to have "Certifications".... By the time I gathered all the certs and returned to Louisiana the oil industry had crashed...

Funny story.... When I showed up at College of Oceaneering with my rig truck (Louisiana plates) and photos of the oil patch.... The majority of my long term friendship were with the instructors rather than the students. Every weekend there were welding projects for instructors and the school... And from that point on a lot of job offers around the world in the diving industry.

Went to Oceaneering in Morgan City and the only person there was the project manager, everyone else was laid off and gone.

Life...... ?
 

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Hmm, slinging dirty dishes into a 12 foot long dishwasher, slogging to class in soaked shoes, dumpster diving for “extras”, meeting my future wife, overnight cramming ( both kinds). Would not go backwards, but was important
 
Had to think about it... 50 yrs.ago today was about halfway through basic at Ft. Ord...
 
74 years ago today I was in a DC3 flying from Los Angeles to Idlewild (Now Kennedy) airport.
 
40 years ago today I was coming back from our honeymoon, getting ready for spring semester as a junior in college. Still happily married today. Kids are grown and both doctors. Life has been good but not the way I thought it would be. Thought I was smart enough to make millions. Didn't happen.
 
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Hobo has done it all… commercial diving (hard hat)in one of the most dangerous jobs there is
I'm a long ways from doing it all. But I have worn out a lot of body parts. Wearing a sling for 4 more weeks after shoulder surgery. It was worn out.
Photos or it did not happen.
Scars are like tattoo's.. except they have better stories.
 

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If the OP can write a story like that from the 80's ........ Just think if he would have been there in the 60's....
He would have been a best selling novelist. Me in the 1980's...
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Dude... is that a Seiko Willard? Because I had one of those at the time! My first decent watch! Bought at Service Merchandise. I still have it!

Cheers,

Sirhr
 
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Dude... is that a Seiko Willard? Because I had one of those at the time! My first decent watch! Bought at Service Merchandise. I still have it!

Cheers,

Sirhr
I'm pretty sure it was. Served me well. When I went to welding full time I put it away, somewhere. To this day, I have not found it.
 
I'm pretty sure it was. Served me well. When I went to welding full time I put it away, somewhere. To this day, I have not found it.
Very cool! If you find it... get it restored. They are probably the coolest watch of the era!

I got mine from Service Merchandise c. late '70's and wore it until I got a quartz Tissot in 1983. Which I wore until I got a Rolex in 1992... My Willard is sort of one of the best watches I ever had and still have! Of course, at the time it wasn't a 'Willard." It was a Service Merchandise Seiko for cheap... ;-) I loved Service Merchandise. The stuff all came out on a conveyer belt! My old man bought our first Betamax there... Bah ha ha hah aha... loved the '80's!

Sirhr
 
Very cool! If you find it... get it restored. They are probably the coolest watch of the era!

I got mine from Service Merchandise c. late '70's and wore it until I got a quartz Tissot in 1983. Which I wore until I got a Rolex in 1992... My Willard is sort of one of the best watches I ever had and still have! Of course, at the time it wasn't a 'Willard." It was a Service Merchandise Seiko for cheap... ;-) I loved Service Merchandise. The stuff all came out on a conveyer belt! My old man bought our first Betamax there... Bah ha ha hah aha... loved the '80's!

Sirhr
Our first computer came from there. Saved me thousands. (A financial program allowed us to see how much we were loosing in the horse business.)
 
Our first computer came from there. Saved me thousands. (A financial program allowed us to see how much we were loosing in the horse business.)
Ah... you had Visicalc!

I knew Dan Bricklin in the late 1990's. Launched another company for him. It sort of flopped. But Dan Bricklin was a super cool dude.

Cheers!

Sirhr