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(15,324 posts)Sooty and greasy and perhaps fun to do kid stuff with.
Beachnutt
(7,332 posts)they used them on the roads under construction like they use orange cones now.
And they left them burning 24/7
CurtEastPoint
(18,656 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,417 posts)into to Pacific Ocean!
Beachnutt
(7,332 posts)life was much slower then I think.
I was a little kid then.
MiHale
(9,767 posts)Yes, unfortunately
Sneederbunk
(14,297 posts)usonian
(9,849 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
(65,134 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
(7,332 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,134 posts)I was too lazy to go to postimages dot org. You caught me being lazy!
yorkster
(1,500 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
(32,713 posts)in my booth at the antique mall. Went fast.