Gettin on in age!

[Jim Thynne]

Sitting her reminiscing the times I spent with old friends and dealers. Here's a few names of old friends that helped me along the way. George Flaim, He was a second Father to me, Max Sidwell Lincoln Nebraska, Bill SWisney Kansas City, Don Criswell Her in California Mike Weatherby There are a lot more, but these fellows were my heros in the Parker Gun sales and collections. Hope you remember some of the older guys that are handling that 4th Invincible and the G grade Fox in that range we hope to all see one day!!
......Jim

[Jim Thynne]

Sitting her reminiscing the times I spent with old friends and dealers. Here's a few names of old friends that helped me along the way. George Flaim, He was a second Father to me, Max Sidwell Lincoln Nebraska, Bill SWisney Kansas City, Don Criswell Her in California Mike Weatherby There are a lot more, but these fellows were my heros in the Parker Gun sales and collections. Hope you remember some of the older guys that are handling that 4th Invincible and the G grade Fox in that range we hope to all see one day!!
......Jim Nearly forgot My traveling companion and great friend Jack Puglisi, and the hours on the phone and in Person with Herschel Chaddick! What a wonderful life. My partner in business Jerry Kitto!

[Garry L Gordon]

Did you ever go to the Missouri Valley Arms Collectors show in KC or the National Gun Day show in Louisville? If so, I’m sure our paths crossed. You mention some great gun folks.

[Jim Thynne]

Missouri Valley with Max Sidwell in the 70's also the first National Gun Show in Kansas City during that time.

[Paul Ehlers]

Yeah Jim,

I do get to reminiscing sometimes myself. One of the most frequent ones is of our trips to Argentina together, first meeting each other at your old shop "Ivory beads" and all of the great gun related conversations we've had over the years. You have been one of my mentors for sure.

I just hope there's many more to come!

[John Allen]

I bought my first model 21 from Don Criswell years ago. I responded to one of his ads in the old Gun List. We talked about the gun and Don offered to send the gun out to me without payment. He said "If you like it,send me a check, if not return the gun". He was an amazing man and became my friend and mentor. Jim is right,the early dealers in this business were special people.

[Garry L Gordon]

I bought my first model 21 from Don Criswell years ago. I responded to one of his ads in the old Gun List. We talked about the gun and Don offered to send the gun out to me without payment. He said "If you like it,send me a check, if not return the gun". He was an amazing man and became my friend and mentor. Jim is right,the early dealers in this business were special people.

And, John, you are also one of them (and I still have all of the guns I purchased from you).

[George Davis]

Jim, your posting reminded me of this note. It was sent to a group of us after a "memorial" for a member of our shrinking group of shooting buddies.

We grew up in the 40s-50s-60s.

We studied in the 50s-60s-70s.

We dated in the 50s-60s-70s.

We got married and discovered the world in the 60s-70s-80s.

We stabilized in the 90s.

We got wiser in the 2000s.

And went firmly through the 2010s.

Turns out we've lived through 8 or NINE different decades..

TWO different centuries...

TWO different millennia...

We have gone from the telephone with an operator for long-distance
calls to video calls to anywhere in the world, we have gone from
slides to YouTube, from vinyl records to online music, from
handwritten letters to email and WhatsApp..

From live matches on the radio, to black and white TV, and then to HDTV...

We went to Blockbuster and now we watch Netflix...We got to know the
first computers, punch cards, diskettes and now we have gigabytes and
megabytes in hand on our cell phones or iPads..

We wore shorts throughout our childhood and then long pants, oxfords,
Bermuda shorts, etc. We dodged infantile paralysis, meningitis, H1N1
flu and now COVID-19..

We rode skates, tricycles, invented cars, bicycles, mopeds, gasoline
or diesel cars and now we ride hybrids or 100% electric...

Yes, we've been through a lot but what a great life we've had! They
could describe us as "exennials" people who were born in that world of
the fifties, who had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.
We're kind of Ya-seen-it-all.

Our generation has literally lived through and witnessed more than any
other in every dimension of life. It is our generation that has
literally adapted to "CHANGE".

A big round of applause to all the members of a very special
generation, which are UNIQUE. Here's a precious and very true
message:

TIME DOES NOT STOP! Life is a task that we do ourselves every day.
When you look.. It’s already six in the afternoon; when you look...
it's already Friday; when one looks.. the month is over; when one
looks... the year is over; when one looks... 50, 60, 70 and 80 years
have passed!

When you look... we no longer know where our friends are. When you
look.. we lost the love of our life and now, it's too late to go
back

Do not stop doing something you like due to lack of time Do not stop
having someone by your side, because your children will soon not be
yours, and you will have to do something with that remaining time,
where the only thing that we are going to miss will be the space that
can only be enjoyed with the usual friends. This time that,
unfortunately, never returns... The day is today!

WE ARE NO LONGER AT AN AGE TO POSTPONE ANYTHING

Hopefully, you have time to read and then share this message... or
else leave it for *Later* and you will see that you will never share
it!

Always together, Always united, Always brothers/sisters, Always friends

Pass it on to your best friends. Don't leave it for later.

[Jerry VanHorn]

My second foray into the "finer" double gun arena was with Don Shrum..My wife and I were on our way to Branson to do some trout fishing. That was when Branson was a blip in the road. Stayed in a motel that was $18.95 for the night . Traded a Model 92 Winchester SRC and some boot for a 20 gauge Ideal LC..! Traded it (and the wife) off a few years later for...? Still have the hang tag...

[edgarspencer]

Jim, you forgot to mention Mr. Short pants. Gary Herman
They say that with age, comes wisdom. Maybe it's just me, but I'd take young and stupid about now.