Remember when

When I first got married, my bride & I had to have her parents co-sign for us --- to buy a $55 TV on credit.
(that was so that we could start building our credit) I had an airline job at $7/hr.

I left the USAF base in Duluth comment in there to keep this truck related. That base was where Amatuzio was flying out of when he developed Amsoil in '68.

 

Dinna forget "Ready Kilowatt".


He might be before the Eveready Cat, but could also be the same time. ??
Note that the outlet is a 2-prong, no ground early version.

 

Wow How could any tone Forget LambChop ?

 

Almost every place Had Tube Testers . I built so many Heath Kit projects

 

I actually only built one official Heathkit.

It was an analog computer that belonged to the school in Hermantown Minnesota.

But my friend built an expensive VTVM, Of which I was rightfully jealous. All I could afford was a little Midland VOM.
This came from that RadioShack out on Arrowhead Road. The glass is cracked but she still works after all these years.

 

Remember when wearing a flannel shirt button to the top, suspenders, with a pipe was dressing up?

 

Farmers could grow crops without pesticides

 

Windmills pumped farm water saving electricity

 

When every mill was cooked over a fire

 

When 2hp got the job done

 

All your clothes came from older siblings and/or garage sales...and bowl haircuts were not questioned

 

S&H green stamps

 

That was well before my time

 

No it was because the Electric lines might have been miles away .

I grew up in a house with no electric or indoor plumbing a 60 amp service to the Milk house for the well and lights in the barn

 

Nothing beats a good light team unless it is a 4 mule hitch for plowing that two bottom plow.

 

And snacks were cheap! (Littlest on the end)

 

I have no idea if these are still around it was called a metal match back in the sixties for starting fires in a emergency

It might have been magnesium it had a metal striker you rubbed on the main piece .

I got it for a present Christmas.

Me being me I just had to try this out I put this over the paper can in my bed room I don`t recall just what I did butit did indeed work . Flames are shooting a foot above the top of the can.

I open the upstairs window and toss the can out I never saw it again after that day.

 

And watch them figure out how to use a cassette tape.

 

Ohh you’re cruel, really making it difficult