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(15,303 posts)Sooty and greasy and perhaps fun to do kid stuff with.
Beachnutt
(7,324 posts)they used them on the roads under construction like they use orange cones now.
And they left them burning 24/7
CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,417 posts)into to Pacific Ocean!
Beachnutt
(7,324 posts)life was much slower then I think.
I was a little kid then.
MiHale
(9,734 posts)Yes, unfortunately
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)usonian
(9,814 posts)Bing seems to think you've got a Tagine there, or a hand grenade.
Looks way too much like a land mine, so I'd handle that goodie with care, or not at all.
Cheers!
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)The city crews where we lived used them when I was a kid. The link goes to a picture of them lit.
https://images.app.goo.gl/sQ3e96qgpbQ9CqNc6
Beachnutt
(7,324 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)I was too lazy to go to postimages dot org. You caught me being lazy!
yorkster
(1,497 posts)Saw them as a kid in the 50s north of Boston. They looked like what the "mad bomber" used to slink around with in old cartoons...one hand holding the bomb, the other hand holding side of his black cape. This character of course showed up in Mad Magazine. Oh the joys of choldhood..
multigraincracker
(32,688 posts)in my booth at the antique mall. Went fast.