I gar-un-teee that every baseball card I used would be worth $10,000.00+ today. I have no idea which ones fell to deliver the sound of a Cosworth crossing the finish line but there had to have been a Honus Wagner in the bunch.
Here's a sub category for this thread; a few things our kids will be clueless about: Rotary dial phones Records Pong Modems Monochrome CRT monitors Film cameras
[*] Milk delivered to your front door...in a glass bottle with a paper cap. [*] Ice delivered to your door.
:cornut: Party line telephones and ringing the Operator(Aunt Nell) because the phone had no dial rotary or other wise Jason
Having to go to the operator's (Fran's) house to make a long distance call. She had a dial in her switchboard! Dave
Our wild-land fire stations and lookouts used to have crank telephones which were hard wired between each location. Each spring someone had to walk the lines to be sure they were still in good working order, fixing what was broken along the way.
:cornut: Wondering how Aunt Nell was able to answer the switch board and use the powder room(bath, toilet,brush teeth, etc) all at the same time and especially as she was on duty 24/7/365? Uncle Gerald (her Son and the town Grocer and Barbe Que'r) even brought her meals. I asked Mom and she said be quiet and that a lady's toilet was no one's business and to never ask that question again of anyone under threat of a 'Hiding'(Scottish term for spanking)! Jason
You can still buy them ... They are shipped in pieces from England. Sheesh there's a whole commentary on why we can no longer get them here in the states. I believe in Darwin.
Thinking back on it, I can't believe how powerful those and Cherry Bombs were and our parents let us have them. No helmets, fire proof coats, steel toed shoes or anything. :lol: Jim
This may have only local....Our Miss Francis and Ding Dong School! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJKHsoks94&feature=fvst]1953 Ding Dong School - YouTube[/ame]