(N/A) Things that have gone by the wayside

SoonerAviator said:
With the advent of modern car stereos, the sound is actually pretty nice. The Admiral Twin in Tulsa, OK (featured filming location for the Outsiders movie) broadcasts the audio over an FM radio frequency, so if you've got a decent car stereo, it's a decent experience. They also put in new screens in 2012 after a fire destroyed the old ones, so the quality isn't too bad.

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Glad they're keeping the ol' Admiral in shape. Stay golden Ponyboy.
 
Shepherd said:
I still belong to a dial up Bulletin Board.
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There are two groups I've been a member of for 20+ years that are still mailing lists running on mailman. The groups resolutely refuses to migrate to a web boards. Suits me fine. They're actually splinter groups of a few of the old USENET groups.
 
Shepherd said:
I have my own tube tester. :cheers:
I even get to use it, a couple times a year. :cornut:
I even REMEMBER how to use it. :happydance:
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I'm envious. Haven't used a tube tester in 30 years, at least.

Analog multimeters. I still have, and regularly use, the Sanwa I bought in 1972. That needle will track trends much more nicely than the digital meters I have. It's good for finding intermittent shorts or opens in cables and so on, and for testing alternator field resistance as you wiggle the prop a bit. Easy to determine if the brushes are shot or grease-contaminated.

Still have an old small Enco oscilloscope, too, and it still works.
 
mscard88 said:
Wood shop in schools
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When our son was in Grade 12 in (2004) we were living in a small town. The high school still had a wood shop class. No metalworking or welding or electricity or power mechanics, though. He built a boat, with my help, in that class, and still has it. Still uses it, too.100_0475A.jpg
 
Dan Thomas said:
When our son was in Grade 12 in (2004) we were living in a small town. The high school still had a wood shop class. No metalworking or welding or electricity or power mechanics, though. He built a boat, with my help, in that class, and still has it. Still uses it, too.View attachment 67849
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Cool! We built a sailboat, think a 14’, and the class got to sail it when spring rolled around.
 
mscard88 said:
Cool! We built a sailboat, think a 14’, and the class got to sail it when spring rolled around.
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In my shop class we put a cement floor in the Civil Defense fallout shelter under the school. It was a hurry up and build it shelter so it was previously a dirt floor.
 
FastEddieB said:
I saw someone selling 8-tracks at a yard sale Friday. Made me wonder who a prospective buyer might be!
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Hard to believe, I still have an 8 track player. It was in an '84 wrecked truck I bought to flip. I took it out along with the crappy speakers mounted behind the seat and put in a AM/FM cassette player and much better speakers.

I put the 8 track in the bottom drawer of my tool box and it is still there. I really need to clean out my tool box.....
 
I read a story about Bill Lear, supposed to be true.

Seems he was flying some sort of jet bearing his name, and accidently wandered into a hot MOA. ATC notified him and told him a couple military fighters would join up on his left wing to escort him out of the airspace.

So Mr. Lear turned on the auto pilot (he had something to do with A/Ps) and put his 5 year old grand daughter in the pilot seat and told her to wave at the nice men in their jets when they come close. Then he went to the back of the plane to watch their reactions.......

I don't know if it is true or not but it makes a good story.
 
I was actually kind of amazed how quickly CRT TVs went from common, to rare on the shelf, to not on the shelf, to hazardous waste that nobody accepts as donations. But they did also have a perfect storm. LCD yields went way up, prices went down, analog NTSC went away, everybody went wide screen, and everybody enjoyed getting the space back. Never mind that none of the flat panels I have ever weighed as much as the 32 inch Sony Trinitron XBR flat face. So thankful I never have to move that 320Lb TV again.
 
-KLB- said:
Never mind that none of the flat panels I have ever weighed as much as the 32 inch Sony Trinitron XBR flat face. So thankful I never have to move that 320Lb TV again.
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We had a hard time getting the old 36 inch Sony CRT out of the house. Heavy buggers!
 
How many of us still have a radio sitting on the kitchen counter (or wherever) in the public space in the house?
 
kyleb said:
How many of us still have a radio sitting on the kitchen counter (or wherever) in the public space in the house?
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I don't think I even have the antenna hooked up to the AV receiver in the living room. So that would be a big no. And anything I have that can listen to shortwave radio is a side effect of being an amateur radio transceiver.
 
-KLB- said:
I don't think I even have the antenna hooked up to the AV receiver in the living room. So that would be a big no. And anything I have that can listen to shortwave radio is a side effect of being an amateur radio transceiver.
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Exactly. Radio as entertainment is effectively gone other than (maybe) shower time or listening in the car.
 
-KLB- said:
I was actually kind of amazed how quickly CRT TVs went from common, to rare on the shelf, to not on the shelf, to hazardous waste that nobody accepts as donations.
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And that is why they are dumped all over the desert.
 
weilke said:
Disposable 'flash cubes' to take photographs.
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Anybody remember these? You could take them apart and throw the individual bulbs on a concrete floor and they would explode like a mini-flashbang grenade. Pretty awesome fun at parties when everybody was tripping on orange sunshine. :lol:

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Post today on the wonderful Los Angeles-area radio industry blog, "Los Angeles Radio People", edited by Don Barrett:

If you are under 50, the following will mean nothing to you. It is all about growing up in a different time, when we all watched cowboy Roy Rogers on tv. He had a museum in Branson, Missouri. Roy said if the museum ever operates at a loss, close it and sell the contents. Well the doors have closed forever and the contents of the museum were sold at a public auction. Some items sold:

Roy's 1964 Bonneville (Pontiac) sold for $254,500. (It was expected to sell between $100 – 150,000).
His script book from the January 14,1953 episode of This Is Your Life sold for $10,000 (above expected $800 – $1,000).
Trigger's saddle and bridle sold for $386,500 (above expected $100 – $150,000).
The Bible they used at the dinner table every night sold for $8,750.
Nellybelle (the Jeep) sold for $116,500 (above expected $20 – 30,000).
A Republic Productions Poster bearing many autographs of the people that played in Roy’s movies sold for $11,875.
Dale’s horse, Buttermilk sold below the pre-sale estimate for $25,000. (below expected $30 – 40,000).
Dale's parade saddle sold for $104,500 (above expected $20 – 30,000).
Trigger (stuffed) sold for $266,500 (expected $100 – 200,000).
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So, it's good-bye to Roy and Dale, Gene and Hoppy (Hop-a-long Cassidy), the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Farewell to Sky King (and Penny) and Superman and (Dragnet) Sgt Friday. Thanks to Capt. Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers, and Capt. Noah and all those people whose lives touched ours, and made them better.
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The Roy Rogers Museum used to be in Apple Valley CA, just across the highway from the old Apple Valley Airport, which closed in 1970. That's the airport where a lot of the stock footage from the Sky King series was filmed. Later the museum moved to Victorville, next to the San Bernardino County branch courthouse there just off I-15. The museum was moved to Branson in 2003.
 
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FastEddieB said:
I saw someone selling 8-tracks at a yard sale Friday. Made me wonder who a prospective buyer might be!
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When I was stationed in W. Germany in the early 70s we went over to the Ramstein AB Audio Center. I bought an Akai reel-to-reel that also had an 8 track player/recorder on the side. Made a ton of 8 track tapes from my vinyl albums. Probably still have them, somewhere. I know I still have the vinyls though.

Like this one ( or might be it, I dunno):

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Reminds me of under dash cassette players. My car in high school only had an AM radio, so under the dash hung the FM converter, beside it an under dash cassette player. For a time, there was also a CB radio there as well.

Ah, the good old days!
 
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