You know you're a geezer when.......................

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

.........when you fondly remember back when roads were smooth.

Yes those were the days. Remember them well.
Frank

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

.........when you fondly remember back when roads were smooth.

...and most freight was shipped on trains.

 

[JaSAn]

Not to brag, but I just went into another room and remembered why I went in there.
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It was the bathroom, but still . . . . .

 

[cwdtmmrs]

Not to brag, but I just went into another room and remembered why I went in there.
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It was the bathroom, but still . . . . .

Yes, but only a real geezer was going there to change his Depends.....and forgot.

 

[ski3pin]

You know you're a geezer when you remember horizontal hold on the television.

 

[pvstoy]

OMG.. having Dad take all the tubes out and head to Thrifty Drugs to test them all to buy the one that was blown. Then getting a ice cream cone... those were simpler times.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

OMG.. having Dad take all the tubes out and head to Thrifty Drugs to test them all to buy the one that was blown. Then getting a ice cream cone... those were simpler times.

Sure were.I remember using the tube tester at an auto parts store,"Pep Boys"
to check the tubes in the radio of my car.
Boy this is ancient history 101.
Frank

 

[PaulT]

Radio amateurs say "Real radios glow in the dark."

Paul

 

[takesiteasy]

OMG.. having Dad take all the tubes out and head to Thrifty Drugs to test them all to buy the one that was blown. Then getting a ice cream cone... those were simpler times.

Thanks for springing loose an old memory- loved doing that with my Dad.

 

[JaSAn]

I remember going with my dad to 'fix' the TV using one of these

 

[Foy]

My late father preceded me in the CPA practice. A longtime client of his, starting back in the early 1960s, was "Mack's Radio and TV Repair". My, how things have changed. RIP Mack and RIP "Pop".

Foy

 

[ntsqd]

Our local tube testing place was an electronics store, "Lombard's Electronics" on Main St.(it's a Carpeteria now). Sadly, there was no ice cream there. I'd have liked going a lot more if there had been.

 

[JaSAn]

you understand this:

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

One of these days, Alice...

 

[ntsqd]

POW!



Imagine how that would go over on tv these days!

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Probably wouldn't make it on the air.
Frank

 

[Vic Harder]

used to love that show!

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

POW!



Imagine how that would go over on tv these days!

About as well as AMOS and ANDY, or THE GREY GHOST

 

[JaSAn]

You can smell this picture:

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

I had a couple of them.
I think today you might have some trouble
as a kid playing with them though.
For us "geezers" it was just another fun toy.
Thanks
Frank