Random junk you come across that makes you feel old.

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Originally Posted by Bailey Guns

Who remembers only 4 TV stations, even in a big city? I grew up in Houston...CBS, NBC & ABC and a UHF channel. And I remember what a big deal it was when we finally got a color TV. A Curtis Mathis, made in by God America.

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So you must remember Marvin Zindler. "SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!"

(sorry, for those of you who didn't watch Houston TV in the '70's, that won't mean much)

Grew up north of Denver, occasionally got channel two, 4 was NBC, 7 was CBS, 9 was ABC, occasionally got a channel 5 out of Cheyenne. Our antenna was fixed up on the roof, so we got what we got on our "new" black and white, the service calls to check the tubes on the old TV just got to be too much.

Hmmm, six of my vehicles still require the two keys.

Still have a couple guns that don't have serial numbers due to age.

Rotary dial phone with 12 party line.

I did move on from my 8088XT computer.

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Originally Posted by Fentonite

So you must remember Marvin Zindler. "SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!"

(sorry, for those of you who didn't watch Houston TV in the '70's, that won't mean much)

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Didn't grow up there, but lived there in the 90s, and he was still on TV, with the slime in the ice machine.

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Originally Posted by Fentonite

So you must remember Marvin Zindler. "SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!"

(sorry, for those of you who didn't watch Houston TV in the '70's, that won't mean much)

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Ha
I forgot all about that guy.
Quite the character.

"Marvin Zindler...I Witness News"

KAIJ5759

My father's CB radio callsign. Lol

Or having to turn the TV antenna rotator to get the TV station from KY or from Indianapolis, one channel at a time..



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I lived just far enough from Houston that I couldn't get the UHF station so we only had three channels. Sometimes if the weather was bad we could get the UHF channel but it was pretty fuzzy.

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Originally Posted by StagLefty

Haha I remember my Dad buying some gizmo that supposedly magnified the picture and made it color. A stand with saran wrap probably.

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It was a CYM (possibly) blue & green added, colored plastic sheet one taped to the screen.

I remember the first VCR my dad bought. It had a remote control. It was a wired remote that plugged into the back of the unit. Of course you still,had to walk up to the TV and turn the channel knob to whatever channel it had to be on for the VCR.

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Originally Posted by Dlesh123

Grew up north of Denver, occasionally got channel two, 4 was NBC, 7 was CBS, 9 was ABC, occasionally got a channel 5 out of Cheyenne. Our antenna was fixed up on the roof, so we got what we got on our "new" black and white, the service calls to check the tubes on the old TV just got to be too much.

Hmmm, six of my vehicles still require the two keys.

Still have a couple guns that don't have serial numbers due to age.

Rotary dial phone with 12 party line.


I did move on from my 8088XT computer.

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SH8-0842 (my late grandparents) ph # back east. In Brooklyn you had a Terrace or Shore Road prefix.

You had to click the receiver 2-3x to let who ever was on the line you needed it.

The drug store was also the place one went to test the tv & radio tubes if one stopped working.

AS a kid one would have to stand in the apt doorway if the "locals" were having zip gun fights. Duke Snyder lived down the block along with a few other Brooklyn Dodgers.

Do you have a picture of yourself riding your dinosaur, Kazoo?
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