1954 Topps baseball cards I purchase when I was in high school around 1980.

Pics or it did not happen.

I still got my first baseball glove that would be about 61 years old. I think it's a Rawlings.

When I was 17, a Senior in High School, and working, I bought this Garrard Zero 100 turntable. Bought it at Hillcrest Hi Fi. I also purchased what was then a new brand of Receiver / Amp, a Pioneer 727.
I've kept and used the Garrard all my life. I had the motor rewound once and I purchased a new plexiglass dust cover a few years ago. It works perfectly to this day (I'm 69 now).

I own other things that I've had about that long but this one sort of stands out.

In 1955 when I was 15 years old. Over a long period of time I finally saved enough money, $54.00, to buy the Winchester pump action 22 rifle that I had been admiring at the local hardware store for a long time. My dad carried me to town and waited for me in the car while I went to the store and bought the gun. I walked out with the gun that I had dreamed about for a long time. Squirrel hunting was my passion as a kid. I still have that rifle that I earned the money for by picking cotton and hauling hay for neighbors.