Fun & Games You're Older Than Dirt If You Remember....

I have a tube tester in my basement... I use it when rehabbing old radio equipment. Amateur radio (ham) and old audio equipment. Nothing sounds quite as nice as a good tube amp. My old Dynaco ST35 is a favorite. ......

You're as old as dirt if you remember the Indian head test pattern when the local TV station went off the air at night.....

 

This is for people from Ohio, You went to Crosley Field to watch the Cincinnati Redlegs.

 

When tinfoil was used what it was designed for--to improve TV reception.

 

When you peeled tinfoil of your space age TV dinner.

 

And had special TV Tables in the den to put said TV dinner on while watching TV.

 

We had them also.:lol:

 

Cast iron skillet with a lid was my first popcorn popper.

 

We had one of these

 

When the only natural gas in the house was from my uncle and grandfather on the holidays.

 

:cornut: When to call some one, you walked up to the wooden wall phone with the 8 x 12in secretary hanging down at 45 degrees, adjusted the mouth piece to your height, held down the ear piece on the left on the hook, and cranked the generator. Then you put the ear piece to your ear and waited for the operator to say, "Operator"(in my little town of Buda, Texas at the private Buda Telephone Company, she didn't say Central, she said Operator). Then you said," Aunt Nell(she was my aunt), let me holler at Uncle Gerald(her son)." Aunt Nell(knowing the location of every one in town) would say," he's out making deliveries(he was the grocer in Buda) but Mary(his wife and another aunt of mine) is at the store do you want to holler at her?" "Yes Aunt Nell" and she would put you through. Of course if she wasn't busy otherwise, she would listen in keeping up on the goings ons in Buda, Texas. Need local news, the location of any one in town, or have an emergency, holler at Nell Montague Operator Buda Telephone Company but, NEVER after 9pm unless it was a true emergency or you'd get the worst tongue lashing of your life.circa 1955

Jason

 

TV dinners in foil trays....

 

You spent two minutes adjusting rabbit ears on your TV to get a clear black and white picture .... on one of your three available channels.

 

That's what the tinfoil was for--so you wouldn't have to do that!!!

Tinfoil used to be for everything, until it was replaced by duct tape.

 

Conservative Democrats and Liberal Republicans.

 

When you texted someone you used morse code.

 

.....with a flash light!

 

Billy Beer.

 

I've got two I still use... one for popping popcorn, one for roasting coffee beans.