......my older brother & I took my long unused 16" tricycle apart and
inverted the fork, flipped the main part upside down and rigged up a a board
for a seat onto what used to be the underside of the small platform meant
for your friend to stand on while you sat & pedaled.
This was in the early 1950s and about 20 yrs later Mattel invented the Big
Wheel and made about a Bazillion dollars. sigh
Steve in OK
(also listened to KOMA on a Crystal radio)

----- Original Message -----
From: "SteveB"
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 6:44 PM
Subject: When I was a kid ............


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

"SteveB" wrote in message
...
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