CAP ID Card from 1959

[NIN]

I had to resize this, but for you history wonks, enjoy.

This is my dad's CAP ID card from 1959.  Next time you complain about how cheesy the current "library" card looks, think about this one.

[ProdigalJim]

Ah, but there was plenty of cheesiness go around back then. Remember, your Dad probably wore his dress trousers pulled up to just under his sternum someplace, and had enough goop in his hair to lubricate the car.

Not that I can talk...my generation brought forth the lime-green leisure suit, for which I remain remorseful.

[a2capt]

But .. at least back then it was mutual. Most everyone's cards looked the same. But even better, more people knew what it was.

[NIN]

Ah, but there was plenty of cheesiness go around back then. Remember, your Dad probably wore his dress trousers pulled up to just under his sternum someplace, and had enough goop in his hair to lubricate the car.

Thats a fact.

Not that I can talk...my generation brought forth the lime-green leisure suit, for which I remain remorseful.

Thats OK, I wound up with a powder-blue one for school pictures one year. I think all those got lost a couple years ago. Darn.   I still cringe when I see a pic of Barry Manilow from about 1976...

[PHall]

I still cringe when I see a pic of Barry Manilow from about 1976...

Dude, I cringe if I see a pic of Barry Manilow from last week!

[NIN]

I still cringe when I see a pic of Barry Manilow from about 1976...

Dude, I cringe if I see a pic of Barry Manilow from last week!

I suppose. I keep up with current pop music, however, so I'm never in a place to see "golden oldies performers" like Barry.   I suppose him & Paul Williams will be touring to the community college around the corner from my mom, opening for the Kingston Trio...

[cap235629]

I still cringe when I see a pic of Barry Manilow from about 1976...

Dude, I cringe if I see a pic of Barry Manilow from last week!

I suppose. I keep up with current pop music, however, so I'm never in a place to see "golden oldies performers" like Barry.   I suppose him & Paul Williams will be touring to the community college around the corner from my mom, opening for the Kingston Trio...

Don't be slamming the Kingston Trio!

[PHall]

I still cringe when I see a pic of Barry Manilow from about 1976...

Dude, I cringe if I see a pic of Barry Manilow from last week!

I suppose. I keep up with current pop music, however, so I'm never in a place to see "golden oldies performers" like Barry.   I suppose him & Paul Williams will be touring to the community college around the corner from my mom, opening for the Kingston Trio...

The Indian Casino circuit has been very good to many old groups/performers.

[NIN]

Don't be slamming the Kingston Trio!

"Huh, musta hit pretty close to the mark to get [him] all riled up like that." -Han Solo

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

And some of our cadets think I'm ancient since the music I cut my teeth on - and still listen to - comprises Rush, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, The Who, Kansas, Jimi Hendrix, etc. and because I can't stand danceclub, hip-hop/rap, etc.  The movies Wayne's World and Detroit Rock City were too close to reality for me!  I think they chuckle in the summertime when they see my ancient Pontiac pull up, windows down, with one of the above-referenced artistes quite audible out the car windows.  Occasionally they'll ask "what are you listening to, Sir?" and then look perplexed when I tell them.

This isn't me, it's a scene from the movie Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986), but it looks like me around that era.



My first CAP ID was the blue and white one from the early 1990's with "Civil Air Patrol" in some sort of goofy font, made of some kind of ultra-thin plastic that could be bent to the point of being able to roll it into a tube...it usually made the SP's on the gate of whatever base I was accessing look at it, get a look on their face and ask me "Lieutenant, could you please show me your driver's licence too?"

I couldn't find an image of one of those, but those who had one knew what it looked like.

Compared to that, the photo ID's we have now are worlds better.  The example that NIN posted was better than those!

[Persona non grata]

The old blue and white card....I remeber that you could remove the the name on it with rubbing alchool and use a type writter and change the name to whom ever you wanted to be.  I loved the CAP of the 90's .

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

The old blue and white card....I remeber that you could remove the the name on it with rubbing alchool and use a type writter and change the name to whom ever you wanted to be.  I loved the CAP of the 90's .

You didn't need rubbing alcohol.  Too much time in a wallet would accomplish the same thing.

CAP of the '90s?

Started the decade as the all-of-the-time Air Force Auxiliary, blue epaulettes and nameplates, hard rank and mostly respect from the AF.

Ended it with AUXON/AUXOFF on the horizon, division into corporate/quasi-military camps, nearly everything not blue as grey, and at best benign indifference from the AF.

[NIN]

Driving to encampment in the new Wing van (the one with the MP3 CD player)
Cadets: "Sir, what _is_ this music?"
Me: "Its my music.  Deal."
Cadets: "Sir, our ears are going to bleed."
Me: "Uh huh."

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

That would probably make me the target of a "cadet coup."

[a2capt]

LOL.. the one with the MP3 CD player. Uh.. yup.

Taking cadets to Wing conference, and a few other places .. and I have one that just recently got Wright Brothers and he started naming off all the songs in a medley .. and another started going along with one of Weird Al's polka's from the 80's.

Same thing during CyberPatriot.

The one says ..."Yeah, this is all my Dad listens to.. so.."   

There's a Song for Everything ... 


(of course the fun part was "how did you get all that stuff on one CD" question.. as they realized it was never changed) 

[cap235629]

Though I am only 40 I love music from the 50's on.  I have had cadets listening to Alice's Restaurant 

[davidsinn]

Though I am only 40 I love music from the 50's on.  I have had cadets listening to Alice's Restaurant 

That's a CPPT violation isn't it?

[EMT-83]

Though I am only 40 I love music from the 50's on.  I have had cadets listening to Alice's Restaurant 

That's a CPPT violation isn't it?

Only if you make them sing the chorus.

[a2capt]

Though I am only 40 I love music from the 50's on.  I have had cadets listening to Alice's Restaurant 

Heh.. and I do have to say, 3 years ahead of you, and I can relate. It's funny. What we'd hear parents say "That .. what is on the radio today .. is garbage". I started to agree a while back.  18 minutes.. 34 seconds..  and as the 1997 release mentioned, the gap in the Nixon tape...

[NIN]

That's a CPPT violation isn't it?

That was a total LOL.