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Posted by: Zyngaru
« on: October 11, 2024, 09:45:41 am »

Quote from: Jack on July 19, 2024, 04:59:23 pm
Quote from: stevieweeks on July 18, 2024, 05:03:03 pm
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Not to mention going to a science museum and seeing the radio you had at home is an exhibit.

This happened to me too except that it was a black and white television set...

When I was about 6, I remember being invited to a neighbor's house because they had the first color TV on the block.

Heck I can remember stopping at a friend's house after school because he had a black and white tv at his house we could watch until his parents got home, and I had to go home.  It was forever before I saw a color TV.  I do remember our first black and white TV.  It was a Philipps. I was the official antennae for it.  I had to stand beside the TV and hold the rabbit ear antennae until dad could see his show with the least amount of snow in it.
Posted by: Emlyn Morgan
« on: October 11, 2024, 03:23:26 am »

[ Guests cannot view attachments ] ... or when you see things in a museum that you still use! Such as a scrubbing board. How can you get wine stains out of your foukia without a scrubbing board and a bar of soap?!
Posted by: Jack
« on: July 19, 2024, 04:59:23 pm »

Quote from: stevieweeks on July 18, 2024, 05:03:03 pm
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Not to mention going to a science museum and seeing the radio you had at home is an exhibit.

This happened to me too except that it was a black and white television set...

When I was about 6, I remember being invited to a neighbors house because they had the first color TV on the block.
Posted by: stevieweeks
« on: July 18, 2024, 05:03:03 pm »

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Not to mention going to a science museum and seeing the radio you had at home is an exhibit.

This happened to me too except that it was a black and white television set...
Posted by: Plagosus
« on: July 18, 2024, 04:05:16 am »

Quote from: Jack on July 17, 2024, 05:04:17 pm
For me, feelings of old age start when the oldies station plays music that came out after I graduated high school.

Not to mention going to a science museum and seeing the radio you had at home is an exhibit.
Posted by: Jack
« on: July 17, 2024, 05:04:17 pm »

For me, feelings of old age start when the oldies station plays music that came out after I graduated high school.
Posted by: David M. Katz
« on: July 17, 2024, 04:52:05 pm »

Interesting.

Photos?
Posted by: stevieweeks
« on: July 17, 2024, 04:22:23 pm »

Lately I have been amassing a collection of die cast aeroplanes, to encompass all the planes I have flown on over the years. I have a long way to go since they are expensive and I am buying them at a rate of about one a month: I have six now and I'm not even halfway there yet.

I expected that the Trans Canada Airlines Lockheed Super Constellation I flew on in 1956 as a baby would be considered historical but I was somewhat taken aback when the Airbus A320 that just arrived for this month was in a box clearly marked "Historical Aircraft Collection" . I suppose it's because it is in the old red and white livery but I remember flying in one right after they joined the Air Canada fleet sometime around 1990.

The same goes for the Boeing 767  that I flew in 1984... this plane had been involved in a famous incident in July 1983 and was known as the Gimli Glider... the plane that ran out of fuel due to a metric miscalculation and had to land on a dragstrip in Gimli, Manitoba. This is the only one of the models which I can definitely say was  the actual plane I flew... the others are all just the same model and livery as I  remember.

Sorry for rambling on about nothing... I know I'm a terrible bore and all...