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

If you rolled your cigarettes in the sleeve of your T shirt.

 

I built a Lafayette shortwave radio kit when I was a kid, it had tubes in it.

 

Yes, and a pair of CB walkie-talkies and a 'Benton Harbor Lunchbox' CB. I had to build an external vibrator 110V power supply and the whole thing resided in a wooden box on the hump of mom's '52 Desoto. A 102" whip bolted to the rear bumper. Call sign was KGH-5085.

PS: There were only 5 or 6 other CB stations in town and we'd get on the air and not have a dang thing of value to yak about.

 

When the remote used two hands to change channels, one on the channel knob and the other on the antenna tuner.

 

I was never very good at rolling things.:eek6:

 

When I was a kid, the black and white TV would get channels 3 (CBS) from Hartford and 8 (ABC) from New Haven. To get channel 6 (ABC), 10 (NBC) or 12 (CBS) from Providence, I had to use this to move the antenna;



The picture on 3 and 8 was always grainy and poor by today's high def standards, and 6, 10 and 12 were just about unwatchable, but I watched the hell out of cartoons every Saturday morning anyway.

I was in High School before I knew that the Wizard of Oz changes from black and white in Kansas to color in Oz.

 

When Dicks R53 ran. :lol:

 

We didn't have the antenna clicker box. I went outside and turned the antenna until Mom said stop.

 

if you owned a Slinky. Extra points if you were entertained playing with it.

 

Made it walk down the stairs and was amused for a few minutes...

Played with it until it became a tangled mess...

 

Your basement and living room finished off in Pine Wood Paneling.

 

When a ten pack of 8oz. Knickerbocker cost $1.00 them were the days!

 

Or actually used it in part of your high school physics class to demonstrate
longitudinal and transverse wave properties.

 

Your first car had a split windshield and it was only five years old.

 

I'll bet you were the kid that raised his hand three minutes before the bell rang to ask 'weren't you going to give us a quiz, Miss Crabtree?'.

 

No, the whole class had to do it. It was the teacher's idea.

 

Ours was 1/2 inch thick tong and groove knotty pine and shiny varnished. Try and find wood like that available anywhere now.

 

and remember Brown Appliances was in...it went with pine.

 

Harvest Gold and Avocado Green !