Things the kids won't recognize

[GiG]

My first car, that I purchased, was a 1959 MGA.  It cost me $600 as I remember but that was in 1967 so I could be wrong.  

I don't remember how many miles it had on it but, it had side curtains instead of windows.  I drove it from GA to Naval Statin in Great Lakes, IL (more than once) and in the late winter early spring of 1968-1969.  

One day, when I was visiting a girl friend in Kenosha,

Ahhh youth............  

As an aside, I got married to a lovely lady from Minnesota in 1969 and when we got back home to GA, we purchases our fist new car........

Does Minnesota wife know about Kenosha chick?!? 
She does now! 

[scooperhsd]

I have tire chains / or cables for at least one of our cars - haven't had to use them.

[Jess from VA]

My first car, that I purchased, was a 1959 MGA.  It cost me $600 as I remember but that was in 1967 so I could be wrong.  

My first was a '63 VW Karman Ghia, also for $600, but in 1969.  It was better in snow than my next several cars (no chains).  Next was a '62 Austin Healey Sprite, also with side curtains (so faded you could barely see through them (lol).  Both cars together put out enough heat to warm the bottom of one foot.  

I was nuts about the foreign sports cars, but the old ones I could afford were maintenece nightmares (and my dad who was a decent mechanic was a buy-American guy, and cursed those cars and wouldn't help me fix them.... and he was right too.  He didn't even like me parking them in front of the house. )

The Volkswagen was really a better car than the Austin Healey, but I just had to have the little red sports car, and after I traded for it, it lasted about 4 months before it needed repairs three times what I paid for it, so it had to be abandoned.  Dad did help me abandon it (with an 8 foot chain).  LOL

You left the side curtains and convertible top at home.... and then hoped it didn't rain.    It was only marginally drier with the top on (leaked all over).  This thing cost me $450, and was about $425 overpriced.  


Dad did help with insurance (for about 2 years), but I bought all my cars with my own money (starting at $1.25 an hour at a Mobil station).

You had a Ford Maverick.  I later had a Ford Pinto wagon followed by a Ford Granada.  Couple big winners there.   

[carolinarider09]

My first car, that I purchased, was a 1959 MGA.  It cost me $600 as I remember but that was in 1967 so I could be wrong.  

I don't remember how many miles it had on it but, it had side curtains instead of windows.  I drove it from GA to Naval Statin in Great Lakes, IL (more than once) and in the late winter early spring of 1968-1969.  

One day, when I was visiting a girl friend in Kenosha,

Ahhh youth............  

As an aside, I got married to a lovely lady from Minnesota in 1969 and when we got back home to GA, we purchases our fist new car........

Does Minnesota wife know about Kenosha chick?!? 
She does now! 

Nope and nope.  She is not a member here

[carolinarider09]

Wow...look at the tire chains on those back wheels. Another thing you don't ever see anymore.

[carolinarider09]

Patrick,

Yes we did.  It was the first new car I ever had and we did not have many in our family (well dad did get one of the first Ford Falcon's in 1961 or so.....).

I forgot, we also drive the car to Nova Scotia for the Highland Games in Antigonish (SP???) in 1970. A camping trip for us.  We still have the Coleman cooler.  Lets see, its now 51 years old. 

[Patrick]

LOL. John has good eyes, I didn't notice the chains. Good catch.

I don't think we were as discriminating back then as now. Sometimes I'm not sure whether we were tougher back then or smarter today.   

[RustyValkry]

My first car, that I purchased, was a 1959 MGA.  It cost me $600 as I remember but that was in 1967 so I could be wrong.  

My first was a '63 VW Karman Ghia, also for $600, but in 1969.  It was better in snow than my next several cars (no chains).  Next was a '62 Austin Healey Sprite, also with side curtains (so faded you could barely see through them (lol).  Both cars together put out enough heat to warm the bottom of one foot.  

I was nuts about the foreign sports cars, but the old ones I could afford were maintenece nightmares (and my dad who was a decent mechanic was a buy-American guy, and cursed those cars and wouldn't help me fix them.... and he was right too.  He didn't even like me parking them in front of the house. )

The Volkswagen was really a better car than the Austin Healey, but I just had to have the little red sports car, and after I traded for it, it lasted about 4 months before it needed repairs three times what I paid for it, so it had to be abandoned.  Dad did help me abandon it (with an 8 foot chain).  LOL

You left the side curtains and convertible top at home.... and then hoped it didn't rain.    It was only marginally drier with the top on (leaked all over).  This thing cost me $450, and was about $425 overpriced.  


Dad did help with insurance (for about 2 years), but I bought all my cars with my own money (starting at $1.25 an hour at a Mobil station).

You had a Ford Maverick.  I later had a Ford Pinto wagon followed by a Ford Granada.  Couple big winners there.   

My first car was a 1966 Sprite.  By that time they had roll up windows.  The 998cc engine gave up the ghost so I got a 1275cc????  engine from a junk yard and it was good.  I loved that car but salt got to it.

[carolinarider09]

This is sitting on one of the shelves in the bookcase.  Its mine.  I do not remember if it is the one I had back in the early 60's when I first got my Amateur Radio License. 

I just tried it out and it feels "perfect".   

[scooperhsd]

I had one of those , along with a set of audio modulators from Radio Shack

[carolinarider09]

And then there is this.   It was actually used by me.  Not sure when.  Got my first battery powered calculator in the lat 70's while in Florida.  It was an HP-35 or HP-45 (using reverse Polish notation).  Finally got an SR-51 (will have to check its upstairs).    

[Jess from VA]

How about vinyl records;  45s and 33s, and even 78s

Grandad had an old windup Victrola in the basement with a huge pile of 78s.

They sounded pretty tinny, and I thought the music sucked.  



And those little plastic adapters so you could play 45 singles.

[carolinarider09]

Ahhh yes.... we have a couple of dozen 33 1/3 vinyl LPs and the Miracord P50H (think that is the model number) that we can play them on. 

The only issue today is you have to have a special preamp to get the turntable to drive the input in today's amps.  Not a big deal just a deal.   

[carolinarider09]

Ok, last one.     Circa Christmas 1971.  I still have the carousels.  Just had all my slides digitized a couple of years ago (2018). 

[Jess from VA]

That pole lamp is a blast from the past too.   

[hubcapsc]

[carolinarider09]

The first cars I remember had AM only radios with mechanical pushbutton presets. I was amazed at how you could set each of those 5 buttons to the stations of your choice. I looked up the mechanism that makes them work and it's interesting.

The 'radio buttons' on computers and phones which you use to make selections were inspired by those old car radios.

When I was in high school (circa 1962-3-4) my Chemistry teacher took us to some where for a school thing/meeting. 

Anyway, he had a new (to him) car.  I forget the make but it had floor activated switches for changing the radio station. Said he found out about it by accident while driving. 

[carolinarider09]

Drawing a blank.  Looks family but........

A seal of some sort????

[carolinarider09]

That pole lamp is a blast from the past too.   

I forgot all about that. 

[Jess from VA]

Here's another one.

How about a 50 cent a week allowance?  (and that was tied to a clean room and other chores)

That's $26 a year (for the math challenged).

I realize there's been inflation and cost of living changes.

If kids today were given .50 a week, I predict mutiny and sedition in the ranks.   


The yellow thing has me stumped too, looks like the top for a sippy cup, with a lift tab.  Maybe for canning stuff?   (Seems a bit large for a rooster ring.) 

[carolinarider09]

Jess, you mentioned working at a Mobil gas station, I think, for $1.25.  I worked at a Shell service station in Myrtle Beach, about the same pay (1963-65).

It was, Myrtle Beach and it was an "attraction".   And, it was always a race between those of us there as to who got to wash the windshield on certain cars.  Ahhh the things I saw 

[Jess from VA]

Exactly right Bill.  Miniskirts were in big time.  Our boss required us to wash every window on the car.  And if there weren't multiple cars at the pumps, we were required to put all pump jockeys on deck for each car (he called it super service).  But if there was a gal in a mini, the windshield could take a long time.  
Getting caught looking could be embarrassing though.  

You got an 8" skirt on, what did you think would happen?  


I see London, I see France, I can see your underpants.

[Serk]

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And the yellow thing is a mag tape write ring. 

...but I cheated to figure that out.

[msb]

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And the yellow thing is a mag tape write ring. 

...but I cheated to figure that out.

OK, that's absolutely the most obscure "what's this" item going. I looked it up and I still don't get what the he** it is or what the he** it's for. 

[hubcapsc]

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And the yellow thing is a mag tape write ring. 

...but I cheated to figure that out.

OK, that's absolutely the most obscure "what's this" item going. I looked it up and I still don't get what the he** it is or what the he** it's for. 

The post with the 45 record insert made me think of it.

Mag tapes used to be ubiquitous, like 8-track tapes and floppy disks. If you
inserted the write ring into the groove on the tape, you couldn't accidentally
overwrite the tape, it was write protected. I have a whole bunch of them in
a box upstairs, one of every color  ... I knew an age was passing
when we got rid of the last mag tape machine.

Here's another thing,I couldn't walk outside and not see lying around back in the day:



Each one is 8 or 10 inches long...

-Mike

[msb]

.. / ... - .. .-.. .-.. / -.-. .- -. .----. - / -... . .-.. .. . ...- . / -- --- .-. ... . / .. ... / -. --- / .-.. --- -. --. . .-. / -. . . -.. . -.. / ..-. --- .-. / .... .- -- .-.-.-



And the yellow thing is a mag tape write ring. 

...but I cheated to figure that out.

OK, that's absolutely the most obscure "what's this" item going. I looked it up and I still don't get what the he** it is or what the he** it's for. 

The post with the 45 record insert made me think of it.

Mag tapes used to be ubiquitous, like 8-track tapes and floppy disks. If you
inserted the write ring into the groove on the tape, you couldn't accidentally
overwrite the tape, it was write protected. I have a whole bunch of them in
a box upstairs, one of every color  ... I knew an age was passing
when we got rid of the last mag tape machine.

Here's another thing,I couldn't walk outside and not see lying around back in the day:



Each one is 8 or 10 inches long...

-Mike

Now these look more interesting, and I sorta feel like I should know what they might be...but I don't. Maybe it's just than they look kinda cool...

[Dave Ritsema]

Here's another thing,I couldn't walk outside and not see lying around back in the day:



Each one is 8 or 10 inches long...

-Mike
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Thread Bobbins. (There was a textile mill in our community growing up and we used to pick them up outside the building. (Why, I don't know. Probably for the same reasons we collected the blue glass insulators from telephone poles. ) LOL

[hubcapsc]

Thread Bobbins. (There was a textile mill in our community growing up and we used to pick them up outside the building. (Why, I don't know. Probably for the same reasons we collected the blue glass insulators from telephone poles. ) LOL

My home town:



In the mid 70s, before they tore textile hall down, I went to a few disco
dances there.

-Mike "because Sharon Paradowski was sure to be there  "

[The emperor has no clothes]

Thread Bobbins. (There was a textile mill in our community growing up and we used to pick them up outside the building. (Why, I don't know. Probably for the same reasons we collected the blue glass insulators from telephone poles. ) LOL

My home town:



In the mid 70s, before they tore textile hall down, I went to a few disco
dances there.

-Mike "because Sharon Paradowski was sure to be there  "

Thread bobbins and chasing girls, all rolled into one.   

[carolinarider09]

.. / ... - .. .-.. .-.. / -.-. .- -. .----. - / -... . .-.. .. . ...- . / -- --- .-. ... . / .. ... / -. --- / .-.. --- -. --. . .-. / -. . . -.. . -.. / ..-. --- .-. / .... .- -- .-.-.-



And the yellow thing is a mag tape write ring. 

...but I cheated to figure that out.

It tool a while.....  I have no used code in a long time but I think....


"I still can’t believe morse is no longer  needed  For ham"

is the decoded message.

[Patrick]

Slide rule ?  Still have one, just not sure i remember how to run it.

Victrola ?  Used to make fishing reels out of them. Deep lakes around here and we used wire hand lines. Most were single or double spring, but, out of the 4 fishing rigs I have one is a triple spring.

Bobbins ?  We had a woolen mill nearby. Never really figured out much to do with them.

Tire chains ?  Still got them. The only I still use them on is the rototiller cuz I bought it with the wrong tires.

[Serk]

"I still can’t believe morse is no longer  needed  For ham"

is the decoded message.

Yup... They dropped the requirement for Morse proficiency in 2007...

[old2soon]

     I remember when I pumped gas Those Fantastic leg shots. Course one or three of the Women Liked to tease. Short Short skirt and NO/NONE/NADA u-----r!    Also wore a change machine on my belt. Sometimes fill er up ended in cents!  Try 3 gallons of regular and a pack of Luckies buck total cost!  Wipe the W/S check the oil and coolant and wipe off the head lights and tail lights. Can't recall but $1.25 $1.50 an hour or some such. Oh and made up any shorts outa my pay and overages split 50/50 with the boss!  RIDE SAFE.