Same here (12 I think?). Real name is James. Everyone in the small town of 750 called me Jim. My card says Jim E Dent.
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Without stating your age: How old are you?
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I get "Tolly". Rhymes with dolly, lolly, golly, jolly and folly - all dumb things!
Certainly do..............bought my first car, a few weeks before i got my license, the guys would all throw 20c into the ashtray and it would fill the car up with fuel to go hooning on friday nights..........
Your older than me i wasn't old enough to leave school in the 60's
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I'm old enough to love watching this
Yup I'm carburetor old!
Yup I'm carburetor old!
I’m resurrecting this thread, I was thinking about this the other day. I came in on the end of this era, but I once worked behind the counter at a drug store that had one of these in the lobby. Customers could ask for a sheet of number stickers, then take it home and you put a #3 on a tube and a #3 where the tube plugs into, and on and on until you’ve removed all the tubes from the back of your set. Then you came back into the drug store and plug your tubes into this tester to see if any are bad. Then they come up to the counter to get me and I would go out and unlock the cabinet base and find their new tube. I think I sold about three tubes the whole time I worked there! 
I'm not gonna state my age, but uh... I don't get it at all... That's cool. But I'm assuming this is where they came up with calling t.v "the tube" this is crazy! Lol
Yes, old TV displays were CRT's Cathode Ray Tube.... nothing more than a giant vacuum tube.
I remember those well Bob... 'cept the place I used to go to was on the honor system. Tubes were on the shelf where you grabbed your own.
My uncle was home TV repairman for a time around 1960. When we moved him to an apartment a few years ago I found a large box of new TV and radio tubes. Turns out the common tubes still aren't in high demand.. .
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wrenchjohns
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Far fewer than I purchased. Remember the buzz from your dashboard when the radio was on?
john
two words; flyback transformer.
If you know, you will NEVER forget.
One of the few things where the warning was enough to convince me.
If you know, you will NEVER forget.
One of the few things where the warning was enough to convince me.
When I was working in a fleet garage, the owner of the company used the garage for his pet projects too. He bought two old 1956 Cadillac convertibles, both were rough and he wanted to make one good car out of them.
It was my job to strip parts off of the donor car, including the radio which was this huge ,tube type , radio.
I was surprised at the size and weight of it, it was about the size of a small suitcase. ( those dashboards were enormous ). The sound was amazing too, considering it’s age.
It was my job to strip parts off of the donor car, including the radio which was this huge ,tube type , radio.
I was surprised at the size and weight of it, it was about the size of a small suitcase. ( those dashboards were enormous ). The sound was amazing too, considering it’s age.
Old TV’s used to have glass vacuum tubes in the back, that had to warm up before your screen would come on. The tubes would burn out and had to be replaced. Television repair shops used to be as common as shoe repair shops.....oh wait...you’ve probably never seen one of those either! Haha!
But trust me there were a lot of them.
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I remember the Ed Sullivan Show...The Red Skelton Hour..The Jackie Gleason show...that we all.would watch on one of those 19" Black and White TVs... With 13 channels and no remote...Speedy the Alka Seltzer guy and remember Pepsodent Toothpaste? "You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent "And Camel cigarettes.."I'd walk a mile for a Camel"..
How about a Schafer Beer? Or Schlitz..or Rhinegold...
How about a Schafer Beer? Or Schlitz..or Rhinegold...
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13 channels??? Luxury! We only had two, BBC and ITV! Both in black & white of course.
Yeah it was a luxury...We could get with a directional antenna..NY..NJ and PA TV stations but we had to redirect the antenna for a different area of reception..I recall many a disagreement on where to watch..if one person wanted to watch a nY program and someone else wanted to watch a program in Philadelphia..we always wound up with an argument..Usually it was Mom who won out..
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ZZZZZZZZAPPPP...lookout...two words; flyback transformer.
If you know, you will NEVER forget.
One of the few things where the warning was enough to convince me.
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The only 2 way communication was the phone, but it was not available for use. Often wall mounted in or near the kitchen, the longest coil cord available was always stretched to it's limit, connected to a female holed up in a private a place as possible. I've heard that holding the cradle down for a few seconds then rapidly heading for a different part of the world was a "thing".
.We once had this old..and I mean old radio..it stood 4' high..It had all kinds of bands..
It was a piece of funiture as well...In its base was an antennea..but not just any antenna..It was a big old elctro-magnetic antenna.that was mounted in the base of the radio cabinet. It was mounted on a post that would swvivel to change directions...but it you touched it while the radio was on you were in for a nasty surprise......
It was a piece of funiture as well...In its base was an antennea..but not just any antenna..It was a big old elctro-magnetic antenna.that was mounted in the base of the radio cabinet. It was mounted on a post that would swvivel to change directions...but it you touched it while the radio was on you were in for a nasty surprise......
