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Mike, my first car had a tube radio, I paid $135 for a 51 Plymouth Cranbrook. The guy I bought from couldn't get it to run, get it home, I just turned battery around from where he had it Negative ground to Positive ground.
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New #303
Between 1 and 20 like my vote says
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New #305
I'm so old, I remember when Log On meant putting another log on the fire.
Don't you remember
The fizz in a pepper
Peanuts in a bottle
At ten, two and four
A fried bologna sandwich
With mayo and tomato
Sittin' round the table
Don't happen much anymoreWe got too complicated
It's all way over-rated
I like the old and out-dated
Way of lifeBack when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back whenI love my records
Black, shiny vinyl
Clicks and pops
And white noise
Man they sounded fine
I had my favorite stations
The ones that played them all
Country, soul and rock-and-roll
What happened to those times?I'm readin' 'Street Slang For Dummies'
'Cause they put pop in my country
I want more for my money
The way it was back then
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New #309
@MrHudson I remember some of those.
Here is my list. Only NBC had color tv shows because they owned the patents to it. If you wanted both AM music and FM music on the radio, FM was extra. One local radio station and one local tv station. Two tv stations in nearby counties. One came in good during the day, the other you had to wait for nightfall for it to come in, or a thunderstorms between the two towns.
For entertainment I could watch cartoons on tv Saturday morning tv, bicycle down to the park and watch the creek flow by, go to the movies, go to the library, or read a book. Or go shopping with my grandmother or mom.
The tv and the radio had vacuum tubes/valves, electricity and running water were added to the house after it was built due to electricity for that neighborhood didn't come in until after 1930s.
Food ? Well, three blue plate special restaurants, open for lunch only unless it was Saturday. Several mom and pop burger places, and one dairy Queen which made great shakes. A Rexall drug store had a soda fountain. Made great ice cream floats. To get a daily newspaper, grandpa had to subscribe to one from another town. Our town had a weekly paper. Phone calls, with the phone on a table or later on bolted to the wall you could pick up the receiver and talk, were 10 cents. I remember picking up the phone and the operator saying 'Number please'.
But some of it, I could have done without. I like cell phones as I have had to call relatives a few times when I needed help. Or to check on relatives to make sure they were okay. And while I get over 500 channels, I do like very much about 60 of them.
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