Random junk you come across that makes you feel old.

[Great-Kazoo]

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.

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.

[Dlesh123]

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

Sounds pretty neat for the time.

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

To call someone on the "other" side of the line. 6 and 6, we dialed the number, hung up while it ran on the other side and then guessed if they answered and clicked back on. We sometimes had to be a little more direct: " you have been on the phone long enough, get off so I can make a call". Usually worked.



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

For us that came a little later, the new age of self service, still did not know what self serve gasoline pumps were though.