SteveB wrote:
Another thread is going back to such musings, along a line started by the
discussion of music, then into old phonos, and the thing of "When I was a
kid" ............

When I was a kid, I sent off for all sorts of stuff from comic books. My
most memorable thing was a radio that looked like half a banana, but black.
I'm sure it was Bakelite. It looked like a space ship rocket. It had a rod
coming out of the tip with a small black ball on it. Then it had two cords
coming out. One was a two wire to an ear bud. The other a single wire to
an alligator clip.

You would clip the clip to the silver finger hook on the old rotary phones,
put in the ear bud, then move the rod up and down to get the stations. Oh
My! I was living in Las Vegas, and got radio stations all over the US.
KOMA, Ok. City. KOA Albuq. KOMO Seattle. KNX LA. Bootleg stations in
Mexico that were exceeding FAA wattage limits in the US. I fell asleep
listening to that radio many a night.

Ah. When I was a kid.

What was one of your favorites you didn't put yer eye out with.

BTW, the first time my dad took me out to shoot my new crack back single
shot BB gun, the BB traveled to an old car fender, bounced, and came back
into my eye. I watched it during its whole flight. My dad rolled my eyelid
and the BB fell out. I was lucky. But I remember to this day the flight of
that BB in slow motion. My first shot with a gun.

Steve


Yeah, but KOA ws in Denver, and it, with KSL in SLC, came into Northern
Alberta just fine - Fibber Magee, Amos 'n' Andy, even boxing from
time to time. Then, by international agreement, the "clear channel"
concept was abolished, doing away with the listenability of anyhthing
distant...

My eye? The blockbuster firecracker that didn't go off, so I lit the
end of it and was blowing on the spark when it finally got the message.
Fortunately no permanent damage to my cornea - but I also got the message..
/mark