Memories

email from friend | 11/26/2021 | unknown

[Hot Tabasco]

Our black and white TV in northern Michigan only received two channels, one from Petoskey and the other from Traverse City..........Two local programs I remember, the Deputy Don Show and Johnny On The Spot.....

Mom took me and my friends to see Deputy Don in Traverse City on my birthday one year.....We were all dressed up as cowboys and indigenous peoples....

[gitmo]

All 14. And starter button on the floorboard.

I remember a crank in the front of the car hood to start mom’s car.

Can openers for coke cans. I remember selling a can opener to some beer-deprived sailors for $20.

Dad popping popcorn in a metal pan on the stove.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

When I was in grad school in the late 80s, there was a table in the lounge area where people would put unwanted things when they moved out of an office. One day, a nice tabletop cabinet radio (tube type) showed up there. I went by later and it was plugged in and playing; it sounded good, so I took it home (still have it). I’m sure that some kid plugged it in, turned it on, decided it didn’t work, and wandered off.

[gitmo]

I still have 78 rpm records and a hand crank Victrola.

[gitmo]

I remember when my family returned to the States in 1966 after our tour in GITMO, the real estate agent took us to a new kind of restaurant. They had 15¢ hamburgers. Had a big yellow M above it. He was so proud of that. They tasted like cardboard.

[mabarker1]

LOL !!! Well done Sir.

[MayflowerMadam]

I don’t recall any of my teachers’ names, either.

[gitmo]

I used to run the sound board at my church. I brought in a turntable for one particular song. The teenagers gathered around. On of them said it was like an old timey CD player.

[MayflowerMadam]

But the fries were delicious! $.10, I think.

[gitmo]

We had a wood stove. Also had an electric stove , but it was rarely used.

[Openurmind]

Didn’t wait for the tubes... :)

[gitmo]

LOL. She screamed something in Catholic. 😝

[gitmo]

And the tv had to warm up.

Remember the 4 foot tall tube radios?

[mabarker1]

The B&W TV went out and Dad and I would make a “map” of the tubes location on the TV Circuit Board then taking out the ones We thought were bad and then We would go to the Drugstore or Hardware Store and use the Tube Tester and then buy replacement tube(s) for the bad ones, take them home and put the TV back together and Pray it worked.

Now all those tubes are crammed into a chip the size of a Dime.

[oh8eleven]

in 1966 after our tour in GITMO

I was USMC and did a Carib Cruise in late '69.
We stopped at Gitmo for a week or so to rebuild defenses. Ugh. And I swear it was hotter there than VN.
It was not a fun place to be.

[ken in texas]

- Remember the 4 foot tall tube radios? -

I have one here in the house. About 40 years ago when my late wife's grandmother died we hauled it back from Arkansas. I replaced the speaker grill cloth and refinshed it, but never got around to trying to get it working.

[gitmo]

We lo Ed it. I was a kid, but my brother & I still think of Guantanamo Bay as home.

[Chode]

i still have to replace a tube in my amp now and again, prolly no more though

[Openurmind]

Those older big ones were pretty much gone when I was a kid, most folks had tube “console” 78 platter players with an all band receiver. Mono of course.

[dakine]

Mrs. Welkenbach...