Official Meme Thread. [NO POLITICS]

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Nope. Before my time. I remember we had a small (probably 20") portable RCA color tv on a stand with wheels. I remember playing with my GI Joe with his astronaut suit watching the moon landing with my dad. I was 6.

I remember when I was 6, on cold rainy nights, laying in front of the big radio being scared by "The Shadow" knows radio show -

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=...id:FFRGbdHCFA0

[Stephen W.]

Just before my time. However, my older siblings grew up listening to the likes of "The Lone Ranger" and Hockey Night in Canada.
Funny story, my two brothers got into a fight over what to listen to and decided to "saw" the beautiful wooden cabinet radio right down the middle. By the time my father arrived on the scene my oldest brother had already started and there was a huge kerf mark through the leading edge and partway into the top.
My father used wood dust/shavings, glue and lots of stain to try and restore the cabinet but... The damage was still visible when he sold it. He liked to say that it was that mark and the story behind it that made the sale.

I turned around from my keyboard and spotted my Uncle's old cabinet radio in the corner of my computer room. So I snapped a photo. Now this was used everyday and night until he got his first TV in the mid 60's. He still used it to listen to music or the hockey game if he was busy in another room. I think it only ever got two stations. CBC for hockey and a religious station that my aunt loved to listen to. (Hmmmm... guess I need to get the duster and vacuum out)

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I remember them, but we never had one to my knowledge. My Grandparents had one in their living room but it didn't work due to a blown tube they didn't want to spend the money on replacing.

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OK, which one is it THIS time? I remember my father taking the suspect bad tubes into the hardware store to have them tested. Yep, some of them were expensive -

[Spuds]

Hmmm. When I was 6, I remember watching the original Power Rangers and Magic School Bus and that's about it lol. Fun fact, my FRS is red because that's my favorite color, and red is my favorite color because the red ranger "drove" a "T-Rex" and my 6 year old brain thought it was cool.

I can't remember ever not having internet in our house. I do remember learning about search engines and this fancy new one called Google when I was 8.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Hmmm. When I was 6, I remember watching the original Power Rangers and Magic School Bus and that's about it lol. Fun fact, my FRS is red because that's my favorite color, and red is my favorite color because the red ranger "drove" a "T-Rex" and my 6 year old brain thought it was cool.

I can't remember ever not having internet in our house. I do remember learning about search engines and this fancy new one called Google when I was 8.

I remember when we got the internet at work for the first time and had to upgrade all the computers from 286's to 486's to handle the "graphics".

[bcj]

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Stephen W.

Just before my time. However, my older siblings grew up listening to the likes of "The Lone Ranger" and Hockey Night in Canada.
Funny story, my two brothers got into a fight over what to listen to and decided to "saw" the beautiful wooden cabinet radio right down the middle. By the time my father arrived on the scene my oldest brother had already started and there was a huge kerf mark through the leading edge and partway into the top.
My father used wood dust/shavings, glue and lots of stain to try and restore the cabinet but... The damage was still visible when he sold it. He liked to say that it was that mark and the story behind it that made the sale.

I turned around from my keyboard and spotted my Uncle's old cabinet radio in the corner of my computer room. So I snapped a photo. Now this was used everyday and night until he got his first TV in the mid 60's. He still used it to listen to music or the hockey game if he was busy in another room. I think it only ever got two stations. CBC for hockey and a religious station that my aunt loved to listen to. (Hmmmm... guess I need to get the duster and vacuum out)

Cool radio.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

We had a couple of these in the house. Maybe a generation newer? Still fascinated me, crackling as they warmed.

i have one of those exact models in my basement.

i keep watching for a moderately priced stereo cabinet, but i'm starting to think they're all gone

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by humfrz

OK, which one is it THIS time? I remember my father taking the suspect bad tubes into the hardware store to have them tested. Yep, some of them were expensive -

Oh I did this multiple times with my Dad but it was always for TVs, never for a radio. Good times.

The radio was pretty obvious, the one needing replacing had broken glass.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by soundman98

i have one of those exact models in my basement.

i keep watching for a moderately priced stereo cabinet, but i'm starting to think they're all gone

I remember them sounding pretty nice. PLL tuning was a big deal then. No drift! Wow!

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Hmmm. When I was 6, I remember watching the original Power Rangers and Magic School Bus and that's about it lol. Fun fact, my FRS is red because that's my favorite color, and red is my favorite color because the red ranger "drove" a "T-Rex" and my 6 year old brain thought it was cool.

I can't remember ever not having internet in our house. I do remember learning about search engines and this fancy new one called Google when I was 8.

Maybe - just maybe - that's the reason my first car was B&W -

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by bcj

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Damn, I missed that - it must not have been in the JC Whitney catalog -

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Hmmm. When I was 6, I remember watching the original Power Rangers and Magic School Bus and that's about it lol. Fun fact, my FRS is red because that's my favorite color, and red is my favorite color because the red ranger "drove" a "T-Rex" and my 6 year old brain thought it was cool.

I can't remember ever not having internet in our house. I do remember learning about search engines and this fancy new one called Google when I was 8.

Yep, back in my day, this was the first "search engine" I recall. My uncle left a set of encyclopedias at our farm before he moved.

[ScoobsMcGee]