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JoAnne Worley was smoking hot! Little boy crush!
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Makes me thing about how my dad bought a satellite dish about six months after I moved out of the house. That thing was probably seven feet across and pulled in feeds from all over the world. I was mad because if he'd bought it earlier, I would never have left. To make it worse, my big brother moved home from California and got my bedroom AND the benefit of watching every basketball and baseball game [[in addition to all of the country's superstations) that I missed out on. C'est la vie.
My folks had to pay somebody to come salvage and remove that thing about 10 years ago. It was obsolete since all of the satellites began encrypting their feeds. I guess using the little dish from Directv and paying a monthly fee was more economically sound than paying some guy $100 or so every month or so when their box got scrambled again.
Jerry, we always had rooftop antennas when I was growing up until I got to Jr. High. That's when my father got one of those antenna towers that go up from the ground past the roof of the house. The tower was connected to the TV and to a control box inside. You could turn the antenna in the direction you wanted just by turning the dial on the box. I had to use it most when it would get late if I wanted certain Canadian tv channels. That tower still stand behind my mother's house near her driveway.
Wish I had a good antenna right now. Since Congress made all stations go digital, I can't get all of the broadcast channels on my downstairs TV. If I adjust the antenna to get some, I lose others. We have six network TV stations but each of them has low def subsidiaries. I call it Poor Man's Cable because we have 37 channels that we don't need cable to get.
I know what you're going through Jerry. I remember back to when I first moved to Long Island. I wanted to see if I could get away without ordering cable. I had a good-sized indoor antenna I bought from Radio Shack. By coincidence, there was a television broadcast tower right across the highway from me. Even with my antenna, I got zilch in the way of broadcasts. I had no choice but to order cable. I never thought the day would come where we had to pay to watch TV. The cable companies have been so rich and so arrogant that they act like the utilities do.
We finally have a photo of a headboard with shelves and drawers built in. OldiesNusicFan sent it to me to upload:
I've seen those before, but I would never have called it a "headboard". To me, a headboard is a flat board that is placed between the sleeper's head and keeps him or her from hitting his/her head on the hard wall. This looks like a shelf placed behind a bed.
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I'm good though. I cut the cord over 20 years ago and with my streaming devices, I'm accessing most cable channels and getting content from all of the major streaming services for free. Curiously, it's the "free" TV that I have trouble watching through broadcast and the paid TV that I find it easier to get through the internet.
Way to go robb,way to go!!
Remember when your first introduction to all things music was from those stacks of lps in the corner? 45s? Or in crates? Sweet sounds coming out of the hi-fi stereo? Which was actually a piece of furniture!
My first purchase from an electronics store was an old turntable/cassette/8-track player. I played it for years until my dad came home with an old Marantz receiver that he got from one of his lodge buddies. Anybody still irritated by the click and delay when an 8-track switched tracks in the middle of a song? I used to hate that, even when I knew it was coming.
Those are beautiful..i'm tearin up over here,sniff sniff!
I remember when the only console we had was for just a radio [[with a giant speaker), and the record player was a separate item, a Victrola phonograph, with only a 78 RPM speed! That's old!
Who remembers the old Benzee radio box for you car? You either carried it with you or shoved it under your seat. I was in the latter camp, and by the time I got back to the car, it vanished! It happened inna Bronx in early '90's. I shoulda known better.
You guys are all so young! My introduction was a stack of my parents' Boogie Woogie 78s by the Victrola! And on the wall in the living room was a bookshelf full of those green record-holder-sleeved Albums [[which, of course, is where the name "albums" used for LPs comes).
I hereby dub you...professor emiritus of soulful detroit,doctor robb k!!
My dad only had a couple of 78s. We had a who lot of 45s and a bunch of albums. At age 16 I got my first job [[McDonalds). A couple weeks after my first paycheck, I bought my first albums which were Candy by Con Funk Shun and LTD's Devotion. It wouldn't be long before I'd buy between two and four albums every week. I still have about 600 of them in boxes in the basement. About ten years ago, I broke them out and began to digitize them. Say what you will about digital media but nothing comes close to the fidelity and feel of a vinyl LP.
What about radiators? They would whistle and hiss - loudly. And gave of heat like a sauna!
Remember sitting the floor fan in the window to cool the room? Haaaaaaaa it cooled nothing!
Speaking of radiators, when is the last time anyone put water in a car radiator? Or for that matter, that you pulled your car over because your radiator sprung a leak and you had steam shooting out of it?
I think the last car that overheated like that for me was a Chevette back in 1979.
Food procressors
Word processors
Typewriters
Florshiem Shoes
Buster Brown Shoes
jungle gyms
Romper Room
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
tube socks, w/3 racing stripes
station wagons w/wood door panels
mirrored walls
wooden school desks w/pencil slot
In my elementary school, we had those old wood and wrought iron individual desks with an inkwell depression for holding the ink bottles. They were from before WWI. My mother's parents had a car from before WWII [[a 1938 [[Canadian) Chrysler). I, myself, still use a 1959 Smith-Corona typewriter case for my traveling art-supplies briefcase, because it is so sturdy. I've used it as a briefcase, since 1972. I didn't get a computer until 1998. Up until then, I used a hand non-electric typewriter. I didn't get a hand [[portable) telephone until 2003. That was a flip phone. I didn't get a smart phone until 2011, and I almost never use it [[only for retrieving my computer passwords). I've never used The Internet on it. I'm the only person I know who still has a landline telephone [[in 3 homes). I'm also the only one I know who doesn't use "The Cloud". I have a car, but don't use it at all any more. I still use a mechanical rotary desktop pencil sharpener.
What is a "food procressor"??? I don't even know what a "food processor" is! What is the action of "cressing"? That is not in The Oxford Dictionary of The English Language.
I spelled it wrong, Robb. Good eagle eye.
What about the metal ones? Where the whole top opened on hinges?
Yeah! I remember that little metal rack down there...crammed with contraband -comics, Mad/Cracked/Crazy mags!
It was called the Coat Room in the '70's. Place to go get beat up, pre-afterschool. Years later, with my own kids ready for kindergarten, I saw my daughter's and....
Back in the day,the[cloak room]was where i got my first kiss,hehehehe!!!
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