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.

[davidsinn]

That's a CPPT violation isn't it?

That was a total LOL.

A couple of years back a local classic rock station would play that song back to back on Thanksgiving day...I just wanted to listen to some good music not...That...

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

I had a foster sister as a child in the '70s and she had Alice's Restaurant.  I grew to really like it.

Speaking of the '70s, what did CAP ID cards of that era look like?

[BillB]

In the 70's it was a blue (paper) card with the same emblem as the officer hat insignia on the left, a photo in the middle and the CAP seal on the right. It was CAP Form 14 (originally dated May 1966) Several Wings (and Regions used the ID form up thru the 1990's until stgocks were used up. Members got the cards laminated to protect them from wear.

[PHall]

In the 70's it was a blue (paper) card with the same emblem as the officer hat insignia on the left, a photo in the middle and the CAP seal on the right. It was CAP Form 14 (originally dated May 1966) Several Wings (and Regions used the ID form up thru the 1990's until stgocks were used up. Members got the cards laminated to protect them from wear.

Yeah, those old paper cards were not "washing machine friendly"!

[Eclipse]

In the 70's it was a blue (paper) card with the same emblem as the officer hat insignia on the left, a photo in the middle and the CAP seal on the right. It was CAP Form 14 (originally dated May 1966) Several Wings (and Regions used the ID form up thru the 1990's until stgocks were used up. Members got the cards laminated to protect them from wear.

Wasn't that the Form 19?  My wing used them right up to and even past the photo ID's, and still has a supplement in that regard.

[ol'fido]

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."

Let's see... some of the road music from when I was a cadet....Apocalypse Now soundtrack, Stripes soundtrack, Rolling Stones, Jim Morrison and the Doors, Mark Russell, and the most frequent...The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack. That IS a CPPT issue these days.

[BillB]

The form 19 was the pink paper ID that Squadrons could issue when an application was turned it. The form 14 (I have one in front of me) was the one issued by National (or Wing, not sure which) that was numbered and the permanent ID that also required a membership card. Later the form 19 became the PAO monthly report form.

[SarDragon]

Gotta differ on that one, Bill. The most recent CAPF 19 (Mar 81) was the blue ID card. My online image is currently inaccessible, or I'd post it.

[BillB]

The form 14 of May 1966 and the form 19 of May 1981 are identical on the front. The back were almost identical except the 1981 card had no card number. The 1966 card had a member serial number, the 1981 card used your social security number. The blue card was used in various form for over 20 years but the form number changed.
TIn 1962 it was also a an ID card, Form 14, plastic and the annual membership card was a sticker that attached to the back of the ID card.
(I have all these cards from my 1940's cadet ID up thru 2005 sitting on my desk)

[SarDragon]

As soon as I can find new hosting space, I'll post bits of my collection.

[Eclipse]

Billb , I don't doubt you, but I can tell you the stack of blank form 19's I had when I was a unit CC were light blue.

Considering I save everything, I can't believe I don't have one.

[Eclipse]

In this case, search was my friend...

http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=13719.msg252645#msg252645



Dave - you had posted yours in the same thread, but the links are broken, they come up, though, if you Google for "capf 19" in "images".
Both yours and Stonewalls cay "CAPF 19 MAY 81" on the back.  This is the same version I had a blank stack of.

[SarDragon]

Mine was issued a bit earlier than UK's (1 Jun 88).

The links are broken because Cox dropped their web hosting, and I haven't found a new place. Any suggestions? I need someplace free, or really cheap, to be an accessible repository for some pictures, and an HTML page or two.

[Eclipse]

I drop anything I don't care about in imageshack (i.e. forum posting), but my "cloud" is GDocs through a paid Apps Premier account with another 200GB tacked onto it.  I also use Dropbox with a free account that has about 11GB thanks to an ad campaign and completing the first steps, etc.

[Extremepredjudice]

Mine was issued a bit earlier than UK's (1 Jun 88).

The links are broken because Cox dropped their web hosting, and I haven't found a new place. Any suggestions? I need someplace free, or really cheap, to be an accessible repository for some pictures, and an HTML page or two.

off the top of my head, all of them are good services, unless otherwise noted.

Plain websites:
Webs, last I checked 50 mb
000webhosting (if you use then becareful, I've heard bad things.), 1.5gb
Screenshots:
Puush 200 mb per month
Image hosting:
Imageshack, n/a
Music:
Grooveshark, unlimited
Docs:
Skydrive, 25gbs
Google docs, ?? I forget
Files:
Dropbox, varies
Skydrive(I've heard you can upload anything, but I haven't tried it), 25 gbs

Paid:
Ipage. I use them for everything (that don't put on my server) dand they usually run deals... About 2.95 per month for unlimited everything.

Other than those, google is your friend. Happy hunting.

[SarDragon]

Membership cards. Not IDs - no pictures.







This is all the flavors I currently have. The first is a cadet card. The remainder are SM cards.

[usafcap1]

i think they look better in 59 then now

[James Shaw]

In the 70's it was a blue (paper) card with the same emblem as the officer hat insignia on the left, a photo in the middle and the CAP seal on the right. It was CAP Form 14 (originally dated May 1966) Several Wings (and Regions used the ID form up thru the 1990's until stgocks were used up. Members got the cards laminated to protect them from wear.

I thought your first card was on Papyrus? 

[Stonewall]

In this case, search was my friend...

http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=13719.msg252645#msg252645

I just spent a couple minutes searching for this.  All I had to do was go to the second page of this thread...

[Pylon]

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."

How'd you find a CAP van with an 8-track deck?   

[NIN]

How'd you find a CAP van with an 8-track deck?   

Black van

[Private Investigator]

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.

What do you expect from 1959? In 2012 that would 'chessy'.

Thanks for sharing.   

[SAR-EMT1]

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!

Who is Barry Manilow ?