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Elcap76

Trad climber
Long Beach, CA
Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 4, 2009 - 12:03am PT
260481
I got it when I was a boy scout, back then the earth rotated anti-clockwise. Anyone out there have a lower number?
Dana

Jaybro - 1970 sounds about right....
Jaybro

Social climber
wuz real!
Apr 4, 2009 - 12:06am PT
ya got me, 268300 from 1970, I believe
Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Apr 4, 2009 - 12:12am PT
My dad had one in the 2-3 digit range from the 1940s, but REI took it back and gave him a large one. It probably got re-issued to some bigwig?
F10

Trad climber
e350
Apr 4, 2009 - 12:14am PT
I would have to check with my pop's, he joined in 1966. I remember visiting the Seattle store and thinking wow this is cool!
DonC

climber
CA
Apr 4, 2009 - 12:17am PT
from the late 60's
104,xxx
Reilly

Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
Apr 4, 2009 - 12:34am PT
eat your hearts out: 85,0xx
Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Apr 4, 2009 - 12:42am PT
295432, 1971

My father's is something like 25,000.

My MEC number is 224.
Scared Silly

Trad climber
UT
Apr 4, 2009 - 12:59am PT
253xxx ... early 70s got it from my Dad.
Curt

Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
Apr 4, 2009 - 01:17am PT
I got mine in 1979 and it's in the 900,000s.

Curt

Fish Finder

Social climber
THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
Apr 4, 2009 - 04:36am PT


THAT IS FUNNY TAMI.

thread drift.......

I just acquired a book by John Long that you do the illustrations on ........

if i send it to you with return postage paid, would you sign it for me ?

Best Gregg

KissAss Edit : Please
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Apr 4, 2009 - 05:38am PT
77xxx 1968 (I think)

One time at Indian Rock in the early 1970's, we got into this discussion and Jim Crooks produced an REI card with a three-digit number. He said his friends in Seattle teased him because he didn't join right away, so he had such a high number.

John
Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
Apr 4, 2009 - 06:52am PT
I first joined in 1969, but haven't used it since the mid-1980s. When I was home this past christmas I rejoined and they had no record of my previous membership, though they did have a Patrick Sawyer on their records. My new number is 1000XXXX.
'Pass the Pitons' Pete

Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
Apr 4, 2009 - 09:49am PT
I never joined the National Speleological Association - a group of US cavers - because it quickly became apparent to me that one's worth as a caver was measured by how low your membership number was. People were making fun of me because I would have been given a five-digit number, and theirs were all four.

Now if I *had* joined, I'd have a really low number now. Damn.
Peter Haan

Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
Apr 4, 2009 - 09:59am PT
Well, what can I say? At least Stannard is still older than I---it has been a worry of mine recently that I was the only one aging, and maybe at some point John would actually be my junior. #32957 from 1963
Scared Silly

Trad climber
UT
Apr 4, 2009 - 10:13am PT
Tami if we added wiener measurements the all women on the board would be confused cause they would think that the line below was 6" long


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Mean while back at the Co-Op all the men are proving their worthiness by who has smallest member (number).



Dick Erb

climber
June Lake, CA
Apr 4, 2009 - 10:34am PT
In the late 50's I got 13633. A guy I knew said his was easy to remember, the number of feet in a mile, 5280. I went up to Seattle a few years later REI was in a second floor walk up smaller than some people's living rooms.
Jim Wilcox

Boulder climber
Santa Barbara
Apr 4, 2009 - 12:17pm PT
"What a f*#kin embarrasing thread. Any chance you got yer weiner measurements to add to it ?"

If we do let's us millimeters. Sounds better
Saltydog

climber
NC
Apr 4, 2009 - 04:32pm PT
rei sucks, who cares. not that i never shop there, but i'm
about as proud of that as i am shopping at wally world.

putting honest people out of business since who knows when...
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Apr 4, 2009 - 06:55pm PT
10 centimeters Fatty?

Hahahahahha! You really left yourself wide open for that and I simply couldn't resist! Bwhahahahaaaa!
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Apr 4, 2009 - 07:24pm PT
Comparing REI co-op numbers- a sure sign that the apocalypse is upon us.
Gary

climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Apr 4, 2009 - 08:01pm PT
My NSS number is under 18,000.
hlehmann

Trad climber
San Fernando Valley
Apr 4, 2009 - 10:55pm PT
1,546,xxx... from the 80's. Makes me feel young compared to some of you.
#310

Social climber
Telluride, CO
Apr 5, 2009 - 12:24am PT
In Berkley back in the 70's, it was a big issue in any divorce, who got the REI number membership and who got the food coop membership number...big status attached to having low membership numbers.
Don Lauria

Trad climber
Bishop, CA
Apr 13, 2009 - 02:53pm PT
Just thought I'd enter my contribution. I guess Erb got in ahead of me. Last time I walked into an REI the clerk looked at my card and commented on the smallness of my number - she was looking at my card: 25232
Dick Erb

climber
June Lake, CA
Feb 9, 2015 - 07:37pm PT
So what is Fred Beckey's number?
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Feb 9, 2015 - 08:28pm PT
I never joined the National Speleological Association - a group of US cavers - because it quickly became apparent to me that one's worth as a caver was measured by how low your membership number was. People were making fun of me because I would have been given a five-digit number, and theirs were all four.

NSS 11741
Dave Davis

Social climber
Seattle, WA
Feb 9, 2015 - 08:43pm PT
What you want a small REI number and a big wiener number ? I'm confused...
Tricouni

Mountain climber
Vancouver
Feb 9, 2015 - 09:56pm PT
My REI number is < 15000. My MEC number is much, much higher.
Lorenzo

Trad climber
Portland Oregon
Feb 9, 2015 - 11:51pm PT

"Apr 4, 2009 - 08:01pm PT
My NSS number is under 18,000."

Mine is four digits.

rockermike

Trad climber
Berkeley
Feb 10, 2015 - 02:14am PT
266851. My father's was under 20,000. We lived in Portland and every spring we'd make a family trip up to Seattle. Such anticipation. And that in an era when climbing gear didnt really change one year to the next. REI used to be cool... back before the MBAs took over and started running it like Sears.
scaredycat

Trad climber
Berkeley,CA
Feb 10, 2015 - 07:42am PT
This is pathetic, but I just ran across my Arcata Co-op (now the North Coast Co-op) card: 211! I don't know how that translates to the weiner-o-meter metrics, and at my age I don't really want to know.

I had an NSS card but I think it's long gone. Once when I renewed it after a lapse, they made a point that I could keep my old number.
Cragar

climber
MSLA - MT
Feb 10, 2015 - 07:56am PT
I've avoided them successfully. REI has a place here but there is no need to go to the box store strip when we have everything we need downtown. I worked my way through college at little mountain stores so I am a bit biased. In the early 90's you couldn't get topos for Burst Rock area drawn on site when you visited an REI...
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 10, 2015 - 08:09am PT
My Seattle friend's dad had a number in the 90's! But he was Norwegian.
two-shoes

Trad climber
Auberry, CA
Feb 10, 2015 - 08:27am PT
642429 early 70's
John Morton

climber
Feb 10, 2015 - 08:37am PT
I'm 23370. REI, that's where I sent for those worthless soft iron pitons. Now the funky card is a good icebreaker when I flash it at the cashier.
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Feb 10, 2015 - 08:44am PT
Got me to wondering so I talked to my dad and his is 51K from the sixties. He remembers REI as a little shop on Pikes Place.
Fletcher

Boulder climber
A very quiet place
Feb 10, 2015 - 09:19am PT
This is just like the trend for phones (prior to smartphones) for guys: one of the few areas where smaller is considered better. Ha ha!

How about employee numbers? I have been (and currently am) in the single digits for a few software/hardware companies. I'm not sure if that's been a blessing or a curse, if you know certain aspects of the software industry. :-)

I was employee 501 (just like the jeans!) for a company that took over another and turned it into one of the largest companies in the world now (software or otherwise).

Mostly I think these low digits mean two things: 1) yer just a number and 2) yer old! Ha ha!

Eric
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Feb 10, 2015 - 03:30pm PT
I have no REI number.

Nor a weiner.

But when I adopted Lucas, one of the first comments someone made was "Wow, he's got a big weiner!"


Not going to get into a dog wiener measuring contest though.
gonamok

climber
dont make me come over there
Feb 24, 2015 - 05:49pm PT
534236 about 1975

my weener index number is 29491

(height in inches x weight in pounds divided by actual weener length in inches) x (IQ divided by shoe size) = weener index
crankster

Trad climber
Feb 24, 2015 - 07:07pm PT
600xxx. Berkeley 1977.
rand0M aXiS

Trad climber
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Feb 24, 2015 - 08:10pm PT
294076

Mail order from Seattle in early 70s. No Berkeley store then, just Ski Hut, North Face and Sierra Designs. Then the Hare Krishna opened a temple next to North Face.....
Splater

climber
Grey Matter
Feb 24, 2015 - 11:51pm PT
from 1982.

more interestingly,
my email address from 1984 still works
bhilden

Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
Feb 25, 2015 - 12:11am PT
My dad's is 68XXX from the mid-60s. A couple of months ago I tried washing his REI McKinley down bag from the same era, but all the baffles blew out despite following all the precautions.
deuce4

climber
Hobart, Australia
Feb 25, 2015 - 12:59am PT
This is crazy, reading this thread and my old number came back to me 465104. Strange what the mind remembers. I recall how exciting it was to go to the store. Bought my first climbing rope (a static kernmantle for topropong) and some SMC biners, which i still have and are some of my favourites. And webbing and hexentrics and even Crack'n'ups.

Then the best was getting 10% back at the end of each year!
Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Feb 25, 2015 - 04:04am PT
Mine is a 569,000 number
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