How Old Are You???
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Me, too, and I also recorded a song onto a vinyl record in a little booth at Rye Beach Amusement Park, in NY. That was about 1957.
Jul 2, 2020 12:39:29 #
yup.--Bob
LittleRed wrote:
Brings memories back of a more “normal” time of my life. 🤪
LittleRed (Ron)
LittleRed (Ron)
Jul 2, 2020 12:40:28 #
Ha, I never count steps on a walk, nor take pictures of my food.
I do remember the predecessor to the dial phone, on the rural farm our first phone hung on the wall and had a crank on the side. The phone book listed long and short rings for people, you called by cranking to get the appropriate sequence of long and short rings. If you wanted anyone not on your line you went through the operator.
And I remember when transistor radios were new, small, and had lousy sound, our first radios were tube based. And eventually we got a B&W TV but had to put up a yagi antenna to to get a signal on the one channel available on the repeater that got the channel out of a large city. I think people in the big city had a choice of three channels.
I do remember the predecessor to the dial phone, on the rural farm our first phone hung on the wall and had a crank on the side. The phone book listed long and short rings for people, you called by cranking to get the appropriate sequence of long and short rings. If you wanted anyone not on your line you went through the operator.
And I remember when transistor radios were new, small, and had lousy sound, our first radios were tube based. And eventually we got a B&W TV but had to put up a yagi antenna to to get a signal on the one channel available on the repeater that got the channel out of a large city. I think people in the big city had a choice of three channels.
Jul 2, 2020 12:44:15 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Me, too, and I also recorded a song onto a vinyl record in a little booth at Rye Beach Amusement Park, in NY. That was about 1957.
My father had me sing a song onto a small vinyl record atop the Empire State Building in 1951 when I was six. Wish I still had it.
Jul 2, 2020 13:03:23 #
Jul 2, 2020 13:04:21 #
I'm so old that:
I have used a phone that didn't have a dial at all (you had to give the operator the number you wanted)
Recorded a song off a tube based radio onto a wire recorder (before transistors were invented)
Watched a program on a 5" black and white TV with a round screen
Eaten food that I pulled up out of the ground and wiped the dirt off on my pants
I have used a phone that didn't have a dial at all (you had to give the operator the number you wanted)
Recorded a song off a tube based radio onto a wire recorder (before transistors were invented)
Watched a program on a 5" black and white TV with a round screen
Eaten food that I pulled up out of the ground and wiped the dirt off on my pants
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LittleRed wrote:
Brings memories back of a more “normal” time of my life. 🤪
LittleRed (Ron)
LittleRed (Ron)
I’m so old that I .... I .... I .... forgot what I was going to write!
Happy Shooting!
Jul 2, 2020 16:27:00 #
Jul 2, 2020 17:04:28 #
Fun party line story. Back in the day a young woman went off to college and rumor got back to her home town that she had a beau there. Summer vacation rolled around and one day the beau called to tell her what train he would be on to visit her. As a result, every gossip in town was at the train station when he drove up to her house in his car.
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