Listening To The Radio
Jan 6, 2018 16:41:19 #
We had a battery radio and only listened to Gabral Heater news in the evening and listened to the Grand Old Opera on sat. night. You didn't know any better so enjoyed that.
Jan 6, 2018 16:45:00 #
stepha11
Loc: Trail British Coluimbia
When I was a kid, my dad had to go get the battery from the car if we wanted to listen to the radio. Hail to Jack Armstrong, the Green Lantern, Tom Mix, Jack Benny, Bob hope and the list goes on. MY first Western movie, I hid under the seat when the riders rode up to the screen, and my favorite of all time, is seeing Snow White in 1937. Age does have its memories!
Jan 6, 2018 17:00:02 #
I had a Transistor Radio back in the '60's, and listened with fascination as Murray the K followed the arrival of the Beatles in Feb 1964
Jan 6, 2018 17:53:54 #
Merlin1300 wrote:
I had a Transistor Radio back in the '60's, and listened with fascination as Murray the K followed the arrival of the Beatles in Feb 1964
I have collected a few old radios and cameras over the years. I have them displayed in my home office. Recently my twenty year old granddaughter was visiting. She was looking at the transistor radio and had
no clue what it was. Will her grand children not know what a I phone is? Just wondering.
Jan 6, 2018 18:25:14 #
In the early 60's while living with my grandparents we listen to the Grand Ole Opery on WSM 650 when it would come in on friday and Saturday nights. This was in Florida, Ala. and KY. The first thing I saw on TV was the Kennedy Funeral and this was at a neighbors house. My granddad did not believe in TV and even after one of my uncles bought them a small B&W set it still did not get turned on.
Jan 6, 2018 19:01:26 #
Radio is still “Magic”. Tune into to some of the big clear channel AM stations for an insight into the culture and happenings of other cities in the US. If you have access to a short wave receiver, then it’s interesting to hear the world perspective from stations across the globe - BBC, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Buenos Aries, etc. most have English language broadcasts.
Jan 6, 2018 19:51:02 #
Jan 6, 2018 19:57:52 #
Pixelmaster wrote:
What was it like when you listened to the radio?
Before TV?
Before TV?
I remember it well,
Have always been interested in playing with electricity even as a child... Hiding under the bed covers from my parents at night listening to my home made crystal set... Yep I doubt many a youngster has not the foggiest idea what one is... We would salvage a toilet paper roll to wind a coil on and get a galena crystal and a cats whisker to find the sweet spot on the crystal and put on our very tinny earphones and listen into the wee hours to stations near and far... Many times the big stations in chicago would drown out the weaker ones... But late at night you would hear distant ones come in as some of the locals would shut down at sundown...
Brings back fond memories... Thanks for the reminder for this old guy....
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Jan 6, 2018 19:58:36 #
AlanD
Loc: TC, MN
We had tv, but what choice does high schooler have. I sat in the basement at my bench and listened to “underground r
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Jan 6, 2018 20:03:07 #
I remember something about someone named Ma Perkins. I was a toddler and my mom played it on the big radio set in the living room. Early 50's I guess.
Jan 6, 2018 22:30:47 #
ka3ciz11
Loc: Maryland
I loved listening to the stories on the radio. It helped to have a vivid imagination and employ mental imagery. Some of my favorites were The Lone Ranger, Inner Sanctum, the Shadow, and on Sunday nights George Burns and his wife Gracie. There were others but unfortunately my memory fails me. An era that, alas, is gone forever.
Happy New Year Everyone.
Happy New Year Everyone.
Jan 6, 2018 23:33:51 #
Jan 7, 2018 06:19:44 #
Pixelmaster wrote:
What was it like when you listened to the radio?
Before TV?
Before TV?
And then there was the Buster Brown show with smiling' Ed McConnel...."plunk your magic twanger, Froggy." LOL. "I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe...look for me in there too." I vaguely remember my parents listening to FDR's Fireside Chats to the people. There was "Yours truly, Johnny Dollar," Lux Radio Theatre. Oh yes so many...
Rich...
Jan 7, 2018 09:41:16 #
Pixelmaster wrote:
What was it like when you listened to the radio?
Before TV?
Before TV?
When my son was little (early '80s) he would ask "What do we have now that you didn't have when you were a little boy, Daddy?"
I always answered the same way...
"Microwave oven, computer, cassette recorders... etc..."
Then I would always end with...
"Television. We didn't have television."
His jaw would drop incredulously.
"What did you watch then, Daddy?"
I'd reply, "We didn't watch anything. We had nothing TO watch."
He couldn't grasp that concept.
"Well then, what DID you watch?"
I'd say, "Nothing. We had no television"
Still no comprehension.
"Well, if you had no television, then what did you have to watch?"
On and on and on.
I realized that the concept of NOT WATCHING anything just didn't resonate with most kids.
But if I'd have asked the same question to my father who would tell me that he had no radio, I'd have asked "Well what did you listen to?""
I didn't understand the concept of living room conversation.
Jan 7, 2018 13:55:40 #
AlanD
Loc: TC, MN
Underground radio stations and making crystal set attached to the basement water pipes to pick up far away stationsn
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