Lots around here.
- External car radio antennae.
Are you doing your part by wearing them?Hats [emoji145]
Wish i had been born in a different era.
Look for an appropriate TV lamp to put on top of it.Which leads me to another: console TV's! I loved those. Any of you folks that have been to Frankenmuth, Michigan will remember Zehnder's restaurant. They have an old console TV with a few old couches and chairs sitting around it. Last week we were there again, and the picture was phenomenal. Upon closer examination, someone had replaced the old tube with a flat screen, very cleverly done I might add. I have the War Department's permission to scour through people's garbage on pickup day to see if I can find one.
I found a Washburn X-10 guitar by the side of the road, very much like this one:I found an old reel mower when I was hauling metal off of someone's property about 14 years ago. I was trying to make make a few bucks at the scrap yard. It seemed to function okay (pretty worn) but the blades are completely worn. When I get a place with a yard (Lord willing) I'll have to sharpen those blades and give a real test run.
Yes, and yes.
Thrift stores are full of all sorts of wonderful junk no one wants anymore. Sometimes it even works and is reasonably priced.There's treasure to be found everywhere.
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There was one of there laying in the street my crew was working on one day. 3 of the guys (all in their mid to late 20s at the time) had absolutely no idea what it was. They also didn’t quite believe that oil actually came in a can, not a pour bottle at one time.
Now we have self service check out.Wow . . . and pop came in tins without tabs.
Sliced cheese came in packages that were sealed with some sort of sticky wax . . not individually wrapped . . . you had to carefully peel them off of each other and yes it was not perfect . . . the corners would get crusty.
When you went to the store and bought bananas there was a man in the produce department who would use a marker to write the price on the skin of one of the bunch you picked.
And then . . . everybody had their payday on Friday so everybody did their grocery shopping Friday evening . . . more or less. . . so big baskets of groceries and there were Car orders. Paper bags filled and put in bins on roller belts and you were given a ticket so you could get in your car and drive up to a door . . . present your ticket and they would load your stuff into your trunk.
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There was one of there laying in the street my crew was working on one day. 3 of the guys (all in their mid to late 20s at the time) had absolutely no idea what it was. They also didn’t quite believe that oil actually came in a can, not a pour bottle at one time.
A quarter a pack in a machine and two pennies change in the pack.23 cents a pack at the PX back when!
Frankenmuth, MI = St. Julian/Paw Paw Wineries we used to buy a Solara aged wine.We finally got rid of our old TV that weighed a ton and a quarter, along with a digital converter. The War Department wouldn't approve of the expenditure, so when her rich mother bought a bigger one we got her old one.
Which leads me to another: console TV's! I loved those. Any of you folks that have been to Frankenmuth, Michigan will remember Zehnder's restaurant. They have an old console TV with a few old couches and chairs sitting around it. Last week we were there again, and the picture was phenomenal. Upon closer examination, someone had replaced the old tube with a flat screen, very cleverly done I might add. I have the War Department's permission to scour through people's garbage on pickup day to see if I can find one. I surely married up!
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There was one of there laying in the street my crew was working on one day. 3 of the guys (all in their mid to late 20s at the time) had absolutely no idea what it was. They also didn’t quite believe that oil actually came in a can, not a pour bottle at one time.
Going back even further, I can remember my dad buying oil from bulk barrels at Montgomery-Ward's. It was BYOB, and you'd set your bottle under the spigot of the drum (which sat upright) containing the grade of your choice; then you'd take what you needed using a coffee-grinder type pump. That's the little I recollect, as this was about 1949-50.View attachment 996377
There was one of there laying in the street my crew was working on one day. 3 of the guys (all in their mid to late 20s at the time) had absolutely no idea what it was. They also didn’t quite believe that oil actually came in a can, not a pour bottle at one time.
Ah, yes. Just attach the alligator clip to something metallic on your home phone (which would act as an antenna) and catch the Big Bopper!I had one that was similar as a kid. This is a re-pop from restoration Hardware.
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I had one of those! I would clip it to my neighbor’s chain link fence and my friends and I would take turns listening to it. Hmmm... we weren’t concerned about sharing earwax back then.I had one that was similar as a kid. This is a re-pop from restoration Hardware.
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Amen. Foreign concept to my son's generation.
Growing up out in the country there was a big dairy farm near us, I remember going there with my mom to get milk. There was a spigot that ran down to near the main road and allowed you to fill your own ga. container with milk. And a bucket that you threw a quarter in. The honor system. I can't imagine anything like that is around today.