How old is this?

[JumpUpMyAss 0]

This is a decal I came across in my jump stuff. I got it from my friend Leo Orlowski.
How old is it? What year(s)?

[stratostar 5]

1968?

you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

[JumpUpMyAss 0]

I was hoping someone could tell me. Leo said it was before he took over running Elsinore in the 70's. He thinks it might be from late 50's or early 60's.

[drjump 0]

Ask Ed Duncan D-36. He lives in the Dallas area.

[stratostar 5]

Well after I posted 68, I thought it had more of the early 60's flair to it. The great thing about the net is, some really old fart is bound to know....

you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

[Zing 2]

I have a couple of those decals stashed in my pile of jump junk. Wog and I found them in a small box in the rafters of the old hangar while we were paddling around in there in a canoe following one of the floods in the late 70s.
Larry Perkins said they were likely left over from the early 60s.

Zing Lurks

[JumpUpMyAss 0]

Doc, you know he's too senile to be trusted by now.

[Tidlof 0]

Yeah, I think it's older than '68. I started there then and that doesn't look familiar. And since my long term memory is kicking in as the short term memory has long since departed, I remember a lot about Leo, the Flying Farkles, Ray Cottingham, Tom Phillips, Larry and his beloved Howards, on and on, but not that sticker or patch. I'da had one if Larry had them out in the case.

Ted
D6691 SCR 3975 SCS 2242 NSCR 698
On the road to wrack and ruin…………
but making damn good time.

[ripcord4 0]

Jumped at Elsinore in 1963 and I'm sure that's the era.

[swovelin 11]

Boy, that image brings back some OLD memories!

I had an identical one on the wind-wind of my old '63 Falcon that I drove to Elsinore as a newbie. I made my first jump at Elsinore in August '70, so that old fashioned design must have still been availble even then.

P.S. It's a DECAL ya know, not a sticker, a flimsy thin decal that you had to soak in water and then sliiide off the paper backing onto glass. Ha; haven't done that in a while.