Re: [AMC-list] Toledo Torch

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

We had similar things around here too all those years ago. 

Ken


Quoting Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I happened on this on ebay this evening, and boy, did that bring back some
> memories. Our 
> front yard down in Corpus Christi, TX was interstate 37. From our front
> porch, the feeder 
> road (2009 Antelope St at corner of Doss, go google earth it) was about 10
> feet away. 
> Across the street is a hill up to the big interchange of Crosstown Expressway
> and I-37, 
> which heads to downtown less than mile away. On Water Street where I-37 ends
> (because it 
> deadends at Shoreline and Corpus Christi Bay) was All American Motors one of
> the 
> dealerships my dad worlked at.
> 
> I never knew the names of these things we played with as a kid. The work
> crews would drop 
> them off and they were filled with kerosine(?) but would burn all night. It
> was fun to 
> ride our bikes and kick them and watch them roll around as a fireball. All
> the kids in the 
> neighborhood, about 20 of us, seemed to have a collection of them. Don't know
> why, but the 
> work crews would turn them off during the day and simply toss them in pile in
> our, or 
> other yards for later use, so we kept a few.
> 
> Now these have been replaced with those flashing round lights. My kids have
> whole 
> collection of those from wrecks we have seen on I-10 about a mile away, so we
> pick them 
> up. They have big battery in them and will flash for about a week. What is
> neat about 
> those is somewhere in the darned thing is a eye, that is, when you shine
> light on it, or 
> sun comes up...it turns off automatically. So the kids use flashlights on
> them in back 
> yard.
> 
> Back to these Toledo Torches.....
> 
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Toledo-Torch-Rail-Road-Flare-Smudge-Pot_W0QQitemZ260480814582QQcategoryZ95147QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D10%26ps%3D63
> 
> I am not sure this big link will stick, but if not, simply go search
> www.ebay.com for 
> 'toledo torch' and you will see these little bombs. Sure brought back some
> memories from 
> 40 years ago seeing one and sometimes I am Rambler slow, but took 40 years to
> learn the 
> actual name of one.
> Eddie Stakes
> 713.464.8825
> eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.planethoustonamx.com
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