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  1. FireFighterZero

    Remembrances from days of youth

    I still have lots of points on the farm. The operator lady used to get tire of me.....but there was no one else to talk too. I remember pinochle parties, country dances, having guns in your pickup so you could shoot gophers on the way home from school.
  2. FireFighterZero

    Remembrances from days of youth

    Some of them did it automatically, every time you turned it on. I guess that was the reason for the waviness. Some of the old sets you had to do manually, or at least manually hit a button or something.
  3. FireFighterZero

    Remembrances from days of youth

    Yep. Used to have to degauss them once in a while.
  4. FireFighterZero

    Remembrances from days of youth

    My dad is a couple years older than you Steve. I asked him one time about a crystal set, but he did not remember having one. They got electricity in '54, he would have been about 10. They got a radio soon after. I think it was a while yet before they got a TV. One thing that always sets...
  5. FireFighterZero

    Remembrances from days of youth

    Neither does my wife! I am the attendant. Then she wonders at the end of the month where all the gas has gone out of the bulk tank. Uhhhhh.......in your car?
  6. FireFighterZero

    Remembrances from days of youth

    Is that a crystal radio?
  7. FireFighterZero

    Remembrances from days of youth

    Take an extra Ginko Biloba and report back to us later......
  8. FireFighterZero

    Remembrances from days of youth

    They still do that Jay, at a restaurant in the big town over west. Last year I asked my Kiwi wife if she wanted a cheeseburger and a milkshake. She looked at me funny. She understood after she tried it. Of course you guys remember "cruising". Kids dont do that anymore. We thought we...
  9. FireFighterZero

    Remembrances from days of youth

    Candy Pall Mall's at the dime store. All the pop machines had a crate next to them for the empty bottles. You had to remember to take your bottle with you or you could not have another pop.
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