What is your earliest memory of using a flashlight?

[Chauncey Gardiner]

My father was also stationed at Naha, Okinawa, from 1962 to 1966. That's where my oldest memory of playing with a flashlight comes from. I was five or six years old, and remember camping-out in the back yard in an Army surplus tent. They were made of green cotton, and were impossible to breath in. My light had a red glass lens. Good times.

~ Chance

 

[B.B.]

In the early 70's i remember playing with Dad's flashlight that lived in the TOOL/JUNK drawer. Chrome cheap metal 2d. I always got yelled at because batteries were expensive. LOL

 

[Sub_Umbra]

The earliest flashlights I remember were from the fifties. 2D, chrome and stuck to the fridge with magnets. Probably Ray-O-Vac.

Oh, man, the lights of my youth were crappy.

 

[Lee1959]

yeah they had the magnet version and the non magnet versions. I used to mess with the one in the glovebox of my dads old chevy. Amazing how fast it went dead, lol.