My 11 Year Old Nephews Found...

diggummup · May 30, 2017

Over the weekend my sister who lives in Ga. was up in N.C. looking at some property her husband is fixing to inherit. She has 3 boys, one who likes to metal detect (thanks to that detector I got him for Christmas a few years back), he's 11. Anyway I got a text from her last night showing me what he found when he was up there. The text said it was dug out under a tree in a large field in the "middle of nowhere North Carolina," lol. I just thought it was funny that a pair of roller skates were found under a tree in the middle of a field. Here's the pic she sent...

diggummup · May 30, 2017

Here he is (pic is a year old though) ...

kingskid1611 · May 30, 2017

Bet that made his detector scream.......

samorano · May 30, 2017

creskol · May 30, 2017

Very cool .. I had some just like them when I was a kid back in the early 1950's! Good memories!

Kurios1 · May 30, 2017

creskol said:
Very cool .. I had some just like them when I was a kid back in the early 1950's! Good memories!

I remember trying those style on in the mid 60's. I could never get moving too fast.

Kurios1 · May 30, 2017

A can of WD40 and these can be strapped on and ready to roll. Cool find. How'd these get here?!? :icon_scratch:

4x4x4 · May 30, 2017

He'll have those forever !
Thanks for sharing.
....Mark.

dsdigger · May 31, 2017

Nice find! :icon_thumright:

Clean those up and show'em off. I remember those and using them on sidewalks. He made a cool find as I am sure that if you found a set in an antique store they would be expensive.

BosnMate · May 31, 2017

I could tell stories about skating sidewalks, and the wrecks I had wearing skates just like those. He needs to go back and find the skate key.

Oddjob · May 31, 2017

Man I had a wooden skate board with wheels just like that, well actually I still have it.

diggummup · May 31, 2017

I remember strapping a pair of those to my shoes when I was maybe 8-10 years old myself back in the mid 70's, shortly before they went out of style I guess.

luvsdux · May 31, 2017

Another great example showing you just don't know what in the world you may find.
luvsdux

CASPER-2 · Jun 1, 2017

I started MD'ing at age 12 - 1975 send him this link = no pics of stuff from first 25 yrs
most of this is from last 20 - will probably inspire him to keep at it
https://www.flickr.com/photos/casper-1/

Limitool · Jun 1, 2017

Back in the mid 60's I took "everybody's" strap-on roller skates and turned them into SKATEBOARDS!!!! Had a blast doing it. My dad had the wood, shop and showed me just enough then to be "dangerous". And this included push custom made go-carts also!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (with brakes)