I still have my Dad's 1950's coleman lantern. It reminds me of our first camping trips in the Mt. St. Helens area in the early 1970's. I still remember my father teaching me how to use it at a young age. I recently got it going again after it sat since the 1980's. Bought lots of parts but didn't really need anything but soaking in penetrating oil and a good cleaning. Even the leather pump cup came back to life with a little oil. Amazing! Hold on to it, they don't make em like that any more!
Special note: I just found a youtube channel called OldTown Coleman. A whole channel devoted to these everlasting products AND the host appears to be missing part of one eyebrow! Heck yeah!!! :)
You can tell such a great story around simple things. Brooke can do the same thing. I pray people will remember that Memorial Day is about the men and women who kept our nation whole. Thank you.
Thanks, I needed that memory. I like all your videos, but rarely hit the like button. I enjoy watching you and Brooke tackle building challenges and your faith. God bless you and your and God bless America.
At minute 3.39 there is perfect reflection of light forming a cross in that lamp in the top centre. I enjoy your videos. I wish to live somewhere so pristine. How blessed you are to have all this beautiful creation around you to enjoy. Praise God. And thank you for taking us to the woods with you. So much one can learn from you.
That lantern reminds me of home as a wee child. This is what my parents used on the farm before we had torches. They lit up many a dark night in winter when bad weather took out our single line of electricity to that came out to the farm. I was way to young to hnderstand any of that stuff. But there was always comfort in a candle or a lantern. Thankyou kind sir, there's more that knits us together in this big wide world than that that separates us. From an Aussie born & raised a Kiwi. 🇳🇿🇦🇺🤗💞🙏✌️👍👏👊🇺🇲
All my first memories of camping hand Coleman labels on them! Love the sound of a Coleman lantern! Memories of pie irons in the campfire, putting sleeping kiddos in their sleeping bags and playing with damp decks of cards around a picnic table! Thank you for the memories! 😊
I have my parents old lantern. I keep it in a special place in the dinning room for power outages along with all the oil lamps round. I also have a Sears branded one that is a little roughed up but still use knocking round here. The Sears one and an old Coleman stove my mom got me at a yard sale when I was young and poor. I'll never get rid of them. They make me smile. I'm still poor and rich at the same time at 53.
I heard you say something that struck a chord with me. No place else I'd rather be than here on this spring evening. I live way back out in the country and was just thinking this last evening while I was outside working in my yard. A cool breeze, not many bugs yet and the smell of old fashioned roses from the much neglected bushes across the way. I realized how lucky I am to live in such a beautiful place surrounded by nature and quiet. 👵👍
I can remember my dad asking me to change the mantles on the lights in his old canned ham hunting trailer, showing how it was done. He's been gone nearly 30 years now, but I still remember so many things that he taught me.
I grew up in the 60's. That reminds me of vacation trip with mom dad and my brother. We had the stove too. I remember the smell of the gas burning. Great memories.
I have the Coleman lantern my Dad bought in the 50s . It’s been to the bottom of Forest lake when my Dad and both Grandfathers went through the ice while driving out to their fishing spot. He rescued both Grandfathers but the car went to the bottom with all the fishing equipment. When the car got fished out of the lake everything was still in the car. He dried out the lantern and we used it everywhere we went camping. I’ve inherited it now and will pass it on to my boy. LOve the sound of it. It’s relaxing and I think of the lake story every time I light it. Thanks for a great story from you.
Love it. I've got a couple of these Coleman lanterns - one is a red colored, single mantle, Model 200A. Your feelings toward these lanterns mirror mine.
There is something enormously comforting about the sound of those things running. Somehow they blend into the natural world in ways that no modern LED lantern can. When you are within their circle of light, and beyond is nothing but wilderness and darkness, you can feel yourself in this privileged, special place. A little bubble of warm light that lets you stay awake and in the natural world just a little bit longer, even though the sun has gone.
I feel the same way about old Coleman stuff. I have a lantern just like yours actually, and the hissing sound is so comforting to me. It always reminds me of night fishing for catfish. I remember putting a small ball of Play-Doh on the line to see when I got a bite. A hot cup of coffee for the Misty morning dew. And the taters and eggs on the old Coleman stove. Yes it's definitely part of my life, too bad the younger generation don't think it's important.
I love all my old Colman equipment. I grew up with all of them. Lanterns and Stoves. Great memories with my Dad and mom 59 years of them. Still in use today
My husband has one just like that. He used it to heat up our tent so we could get into our warm clothes. Great memories with a comment lantern for sure!
You triggered so many memories of the Coleman Lantern. Aged about 6 with an older sister, my parents and we would go to Yosemite every year to camp. So, one night, after we had eaten on the Coleman Stove, it was time for bed and my Dad blew out the lantern. After a moment my mother, er, well Mother loudly..passed wind. Suddenly, the lantern which had been out, burst into life..we started laughing and could not stop until the Rangers came and made us leave. We laughed all the way home! Thank you ;-)
Those old Coleman lanterns…..just can’t beat’em. I have one that I bought at a yard sale 20 years ago, spent a little money on stove fuel and mantles….worked like a charm. Had it out at the campground last year, after cleaning out the jets it lit off like it hadn’t sat for the past 17 years. An old Coleman stove is on my list….wish I’d snagged my grandparent’s old red steel-belted cooler. That thing saw so man trips to the river, family reunions, fishing trips up to Minnesota from central Indiana….hell, come to think of it, still have my old Coleman 2-room tent. Most of my recreational stuff these days is done in my 2010 29’ Keystone Outback travel trailer. Hardly roughing it, but gets me out in the woods…. I keep the tent as an option. I’m not huge on buying stuff just to have it, but the old Coleman camp gear….it was built to last and darned if it just doesn’t scream “OUTDOORS” to these almost-49 year-old ears.
I remember growing up in the 90s and going camping with my dad, we would use those percolator coffee makers we would find at a yard sale or goodwill, maybe some sleeping bags from the 70s and 80s, but when my dad would break out the old Coleman cook top or lantern, it made the whole camping trip feel awarding and cherished.
I used to have a lot of Colman stuff but I passed it on through the rummage sale it seems the young folks don’t have a use for that “old stuff “ thanks for the memories Dave 😊☮️❤️
That's so sad that younger people don't care much for the old stuff, luckily my son was raised with the old stuff (me and his dad were "older" parents 🙂) and we passed on our love for the old days to him. He's 28 now and still has the collection of Coleman lanterns he bought at garage sales when he was a teen. There's still a few kids around that are old souls, but not many.
18 and I just picked up two of the 220ks from 1980 and 81. Giving them a little bit of love prepping for camping. Hoping to find one of the old white gas stoves next year.
Awe, takes me back to when as a kid we would go camping and had the old coleman lantern running at night. I could almost smell that place watching your video
I bought my Coleman lantern and camp stove when i was 18 - I'm 64 now and they still get at least a few uses a year. Both have been a part of many memorable camping trips and always worked exceptionallu year after year.
I can remember my grandparents having Coleman lanterns and my dad had them I have had them and now my kids use them I agree on nothing better than listening to a Coleman Lantern burning and listing to frogs such wonderful spring evenings for sure thanks for the memories
I'm blessed to be born and raised in and around Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. We kids grew up camping in the forests and surrounding lakes long before electricity and running water was available. The sounds of hand pumping water and Coleman stoves and lanterns are things I really miss...
Thank you for the peaceful video. I wish I was out in the woods enjoying the last cool days of spring. Enjoy! Wishing you all God's blessings and health!
I’ve camped since I was 2 weeks old, and I love Coleman white gas lanterns and stoves. I have collected 9 and still prefer them to a propane one! Good memories!
We camped alot until i was 15 we used Coleman lanterns, surprisedly we never had a Coleman stove always had a campfire we cooked on. Many great memories. Be Blessed. 😊🇺🇲
O , man you said it Coleman's things are the best , I collect their lanterns and stoves two and three burners ( I have about 24 lanterns and 16 stoves ) BUT I'M NOT A HOARDER!!!! I just liberate them from other people's garages . I tear them all apart and rebuild them THANK YOU FRANK FROM MONTANA.... Great video Dave ...........
I've had a Coleman gas camp stove for 40 years. I use it to can outside in the summer. Doesn't heat up the house. Still works like a charm. And when we have power outages, I've cooked many a meal on it. Used it thru Hurrican Hugo back in the late 80s. I did buy a new hose with adaptor so I can run it off a BBQ tank instead of the little bottles.
I watch a LOT of youtube. Far more than any other media. Almost all of it falls snugly in the bushcraft/homesteading/woodworking space. Yours are probably the only videos I consistently do not set to 1.5x playback speed. Just so relaxing. Keep it up, Dave.
There's something about the sound and smell of an old Coleman lantern that cannot be beat. Add in the warm greenish glow of the vintage mantles and it's an experience that cannot be duplicated with modern technology. I've acquired, repaired, rebuilt and kept FAR too many Coleman lanterns over the years. I expect I will do it again.
My Father used one of these when we went fishing. I was mesmerized by the burning mantles. These lanterns take me right back to childhood,,,fishing beside my Father, the smell of the lake and a big carp on the line.
Ohh, the napthe Coleman lanterns are my fave, they sound so different when they burn, ASMR at its finest! When I first started my off grid journey 5yrs ago, it was just me, my dog, a bedroll on the floor and a single mantle Coleman 286 lantern a friend gave me, lol. I love them in the long Eastern Canadian Winters and my oil lamps that I haven’t broken the globe on.😂❤
Oh yes, love my Coleman lanterns and stoves. With a little care you will have them for a lifetime. Nothing draws moths like a Coleman lantern burning in the deep woods. Big fat wood moths with amazing patterns on the wings, fluttering wings so fast they are a blur. Really great memories. Thanks Dave ❤
Great video. After all the numerous storms where we lost power, we were the only house on the block to have a light. We hung it just outside the living room window, suspended on the clamshell shutter, because having it inside was too hot for us here in Miami. Thanks Coleman, and thank you Dad.
I still use my Dads old one we had when I was a kid(45) yrs ago as well as the first one I bought when I was in my 20s. Nostalgia!practical , time tested..
The old Coleman lanterns in the old carbide headlamps both remind me of night fishing when I was a kid. We always had the Coleman stove and the Coleman lantern and those headlamps. Staying hard to find fuel for the carbide these days even... But Coleman never seems to change.
I still have a single mantle Coleman gas lantern my Grandfather had. The only thing I had to do to it was replace the generator and it fired up like I remembered my Dad doing it. You just do not care about it being old, just it doing the job like it did when it was new. Coleman products do just like that. My Dad's Coleman double burner stove is in my camping stuff, too - he bought it in 1969 during a trip to Nova Scotia just to see the "auld sod" where my family came from before the great war (WW1). Memories are great, especially when pictures fail to bring memories to life.
There’s nothing like the relaxing hiss of a Coleman lantern. My first Coleman lantern was a 228J, which was a Christmas present from my older brother and his wife. I used that lantern on many camping trips & for night fishing. Sadly, that lantern was in my truck when it was stolen back in June of 1983. The truck was recovered, but the lantern was gone. I bought a 275 (aka a Turd) to replace it. That Turd was also used for camping & night fishing. I still have that Turd, along with 28 other lanterns.
Coleman lanterns always remind me of Scout camping back in the '60s. Of course, only the adults could have them, but they always lit the Troop's main area. Oh, and as far as Michigan weather. I recall one year, mid 1960s I believe, when the forecast for July 4th at Alpena and Houghton Lake was for snow!
yep, memories brought forth on this one. From lighting and warming up the loft bedroom on the old camp in Maine in the late fall and early Spring to doing the same thing on my sailboat . Memories...can't beat em
There’s a Coleman lantern sitting in my garage that we probably got when we inherited the house back in ‘05. I was going to give it away but after I saw this video I decided to bring some new life into it.
my great grandfather worked on lanterns like these when he was in the guards, seeing them reminds me of going camping with him when I was a kid and burning my hand when I touched it once lol. great video man
We are always getting pushed to adopt the latest and greatest, even when it comes to our time in the great outdoors. While "new and improved" has its place, time spent relaxing outside is always best with the simple things, not where you have to remember to bring your charger for a lantern or stove. I still use the old Coleman lanterns and stoves, would love to find an old Coleman cooler too, just like the good ole days. Thanks for the reminders Dave.
I grew up in a large family and when we went on vacation we camped, because it was cheaper but also because it was good to have us being outdoors. Coleman lantern, Coleman stove, Coleman water jug. A couple of years ago I bought a Coleman gas stove off Craigslist, just to have one. Ditto for an additional lantern, when I already had one. I totally understand why you bought that lantern.
Love the old Coleman gear myself. Restoring and collecting it has become quite a passion for some folks these days, with some of the more collectable pieces fetching good money. Nice video to close out my weekend with a little trip down memory lane. Best Regards.
