The "Back in my day" Thread

[Daleandee]

Two for B&W, 4 for color TVs.

Back when you had to tweak the color settings from show to show.

And a 19" TV was HUGE.

That was back when us kids were responsible for continually adjusting the vertical hold ...

 

[MauleSkinner]

That was back when us kids were responsible for continually adjusting the vertical hold ...

And the rabbit ears.

 

[Gary]

Bangsite cannons! Hours of fun. Get a few kids together, made quite the racket. This was my old one, probably early ‘60s. Found it rusting away in my aunt’s barn and brought it back to life.

 

[Chip Sylverne]

Estes D size rocket engines. Now those were cool. More fun to fire off with out benefit of rocket. We tried "static testing" one in a friend's garage. Tied it to the light fixture in the center. Good fun until it came off the string, landed about a foot from a 2 gallon can of gas and fired the 6 second delayed separation charge.

We survived.

 

[Bill]

I actually stayed at a Motel 6 when the room was $6.

And you probably stopped here along the way.



Pecan log roll anyone?

 

[sansoneservices]

Bangsite cannons! Hours of fun. Get a few kids together, made quite the racket. This was my old one, probably early ‘60s. Found it rusting away in my aunt’s barn and brought it back to life.

I had one, rigged it so I could shoot stuff out of it. Had to use Daddy's tools to bust out the inside casting. Shot a friend in his butt and naturally the cannon was taken away from me

 

[MauleSkinner]

Estes D size rocket engines. Now those were cool. More fun to fire off with out benefit of rocket. We tried "static testing" one in a friend's garage. Tied it to the light fixture in the center. Good fun until it came off the string, landed about a foot from a 2 gallon can of gas and fired the 6 second delayed separation charge.

We survived.

Rocket with no fins, warhead on the nose, shot from a closet pipe 100 yards across an open area through an open dorm window. Warhead exploded properly. Campus cops didn’t believe where it came from.

 

[JackL-3J]

We had a simple Zenith TV with clicker. One evening I was watching TV and my parents were going out. My mom walked into the living room and the TV channel changed and then changed then changed.

It took a few minutes, but we figured out her metal chain belt, as she moved, made the proper frequency sound to change the channel.

FYI for those who don't know, the Zenith remote clickers were ultrasonic. When you pushed the button, it range a tuned metal rod to make the right sound to change the channel or volume.

Yes, we had an old Zenith. My mother still calls a remote a "cliker", and the 'fridge is an "icebox".

 

[GaryM]

the 'fridge is an "icebox".

Not an icebox, but we had one of these when I was a kid; it was old even then, and relegated to being the backup fridge in the basement.

By the time my parents sold the farm and moved to town, it had to be 60 to 70 years old. Still running great, never needed a repair to the best of my knowledge. There were a couple of bidders competing for it at the farm auction.

My last house had a SubZero, which couldn't go three years without something expensive breaking.