Well, tykes

Post #168,349 by Ashton 8/9/04 6:27:39 PM Reply	Well, tykes I owned a '51 Studebaker Commander 'Starlight Coupe' (not new) And started my 803? 897 cc Morris Minor side-valve once, with the supplied engine crank. Telenews theatre on Powell St. in SF - showed just newsreels. Blackjack gum - licorice flavor; not my cup of hemlock. Model airplane engines ran on same physics as today, but no sissy snap-togethers and supplied RC.. so cheap and EZ that the little jaded tad loses interest after 15 minutes and adds it to the discard dumpster behind every house. My other gramma's house (not weirdo-Gramma) had a two-piece phone = hold receiver in one hand and talk into the 'cone'. No crank, though. Phone # for longest time was (San Mateo) just 5164. Ice cream wasn't some %huge of gums and fillers (but you can make your own Real-stuff today - with our patented effortness; in fact the peaches are ripe and it's time to hunt down some manufacturing cream) Still, gotta remember amidst all this bucolia - we also had lynchings, Joe McCarthy and the Loyalty boyz runnin amok; grandpas of the Neoconmen. Some Murican xenophobic stuff never changes - it just merges into a new tin-plate Logo. Of all that stuff, I miss Radio - I mean, back when there were thoughtful and intelligent people who wrote oftimes original plots. This was how imaginations were developed - you had to supply your own visuals, not just passively veg out on stoopid crap. (yeah there Was some of that too, bizness bein crass more often than not) 'The Standard Hour' - yep, them [oil] folk! put on a real Live symphony broadcast every Sunday PM, after all those radio shows; Green Hornet (with Kato), Tonto and that White-hat Guy .. all afternoon. On Sat night.. Inner Sanctum, The Shadow -- film noir sans film. Glowing vacuum tubes through semi-translucent plastic Emerson radio cases ... in darkened tyke-bedrooms :-0 Pre-cgi graphics. Precious. I Who Be They left out cap-pistols; shooting at anything that moves as a National hobby: Priceless
Post #168,353 by a6l6e6x 8/9/04 7:03:49 PM Reply	Got to agree with the radio bit. It is a rare event that a TV show comes close to the emotion and involvement of, as you say, "supplying your own visuals" for the radio programs of those days. Of course, some books do that as well. Alex "If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." -- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman
Post #168,372 by drewk 8/9/04 10:03:05 PM Reply	When I was about six or seven ... My father used to race -- bikes before I was old enough to remember, cars after. When he couldn't score a sponsor, he was a sometime flagman. I spent a lot of Saturday nights in the car on the way to and from one track or another. 610 AM in Philadelphia used to rebroadcast old radio plays Saturday nights at ... midnight? Maybe earlier, but I remember the thrill of knowing I had stayed up past midnight by the fact that I was listening to it. I don't remember any of the shows in particular, but I always loved story time. I'm sure part of it was the sense that this was a show for grown ups that I was allowed to listen to. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #168,419 by mmoffitt 8/10/04 9:18:08 AM Reply	I remember my Grandma's "stories". That's what she called them, "My stories". They were 15 minute radio broadcasts of soap operas. I used to sit in her floor and listen to them with her. That 30 minute period was the only time she insisted on absolute silence. Had nearly forgotten about that - thanks. bcnu, Mikem If you can read this, you are not the President.
Post #168,363 by boxley 8/9/04 9:33:04 PM Reply	I miss short wave, dont own one any more used to listen to the sov english broadcast. "Mr John of Texas feels that we have a raw deal on (whatever issue) Mr. Setmore Jones on oak street in cincinatti ohio who works at the local coca cola bottling plant thinks we are evil, we have taken a note of that." sheer fun. thanx, bill "delayed incessantly by people whose prevalent qualification was an excess of free-time" Philip Atkinson questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]

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