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[kokopup]

I read post about TV before the remote or having to test tubes to repair the TV you own. How many out there remember when there was no TV. I remember sitting around the radio listening to shows like "Amos and Andy" ,"The Shadow" and "Intersanctum" .

Day time radio had some of the same Soaps that we see on TV today. I remember a popular soap "Just plan Bill" was one of my mom's favorites. In the Radio days they depended a lot on sound effects to enhance the imagery of the story line. Special effects today means car crashes/chases and/or explosions.

[Willow Oak]

I read post about TV before the remote or having to test tubes to repair the TV you own. How many out there remember when there was no TV. I remember sitting around the radio listening to shows like "Amos and Andy" ,"The Shadow" and "Intersanctum" .

Day time radio had some of the same Soaps that we see on TV today. I remember a popular soap "Just plan Bill" was one of my mom's favorites. In the Radio days they depended a lot on sound effects to enhance the imagery of the story line. Special effects today means car crashes/chases and/or explosions.

Well, I'm not but a child. I did, however, listen to a radio program when I lived near Chicago, narrated by E. G. Marshall ("The CBS Radio Mystery Theater") -- something to do with the "macabre." It was great.

Did you live in the era when you did all or most of your cooking on a wood stove? My mother did, and a few years back when this area of the country was crippled with a massive ice storm, and electricity was out for weeks, mother cooked all of her meals in her fireplace.

My dad talks about the luxury of finally getting a wood stove for the bathroom when he was a boy. He said that one time when he was taking off his pants to take a bath in a #2 wash tub, his foot got caught in his pants and he stumbled ... backwards, butt-naked against the red hot stove!

[kokopup]

Quote by Willow Oak

Did you live in the era when you did all or most of your cooking on a wood stove? My mother did, and a few years back when this area of the country was crippled with a massive ice storm, and electricity was out for weeks, mother cooked all of her meals in her fireplace.

I missed out on Wood Stoves, Outhouses and the like. I was a city/suburbia kid that had most of the conveniences all my life. We even had a private line on our phone.

I do recall as an 8 year old, me and my older sister going to spend the night with our black maid Essie. I don't even remember what the ocassion was but for some reason my parents were out of town. I remember the smell of her wood stove till this day. My fire place smell will drum up that memory from time to time.

The thing I remember the most about that night was when Essie woke me the next morning I saw my first snow.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Well, I'm not but a child. I did, however, listen to a radio program when I lived near Chicago, narrated by E. G. Marshall ("The CBS Radio Mystery Theater") -- something to do with the "macabre." It was great.

But...I remember Rod Sterling and the Twilight Zone on tv. Some of the shows still haunt my dreams. Somehow the "suggestion" was more realistic and spooky in my mind than all the "special effects" that are now available!

Going my way????......

[pomtzu]

I remember the world before t.v. too. Mom used to listen to "The Guiding Light" every day. And of course Dad and my brothers always had to listen to the Red Sox baseball games.

I was about 7 or 8 when we got the first t.v. Dad's favorites were Victory at Sea, the Jack Benny Show, Art Linkletter, and Ed Sullivan. I can't really remember what early shows I watched other than American Bandstand when I was a little older.

Remember when stations went off the air for the day - you got the test pattern.

Do any remember what car your parents had? My first real memory was of a blue Kaiser Frazer sedan, but there was another before that - looked like an old Model T from pics I have, but just a very vague memory of that one.

[Medusa]

I remember the world before t.v. too. Mom used to listen to "The Guiding Light" every day. And of course Dad and my brothers always had to listen to the Red Sox baseball games.

I was about 7 or 8 when we got the first t.v. Dad's favorites were Victory at Sea, the Jack Benny Show, Art Linkletter, and Ed Sullivan. I can't really remember what early shows I watched other than American Bandstand when I was a little older.

Remember when stations went off the air for the day - you got the test pattern.

Do any remember what car your parents had? My first real memory was of a blue Kaiser Frazer sedan, but there was another before that - looked like an old Model T from pics I have, but just a very vague memory of that one.

For some reason, I can't recall the event of getting our first TV. I do remember my mother watching The Guiding Light and Search for Tomorrow, both shows being only 15 minutes long back then.

As for the cars, my parents never had a car that didn't make me want to hide my face from everyone. When he finally was able to afford one, Dad bought a 1948 Hudson that had cloth interior and because Dad smoked then, I got sick every single time I got in that thing. He once bought a Plymouth something-or-other, a huge yellow car w/fins and rockets on it. It looked like a big banana. The worst, though, was a ridiculous car, I don't even know what make or model, that had different fenders on each side, a hood w/a doorknob on it because the piece broke off that was used to open the hood and all were painted various colors. He drove me to high school some mornings because school buses didn't run where we lived and I'd ask him to drop me off a couple blocks before we reached the school because the car was such an eyesore. My maiden name is Rhome and the kids called my dad's car the Roman chariot. Funny in the telling but not so much when you're a teenager and appearance means everything.

[Willow Oak]

Among the images of my dad I have in my head are him working on the car. We always had an old used car, and dad was always "tinkering" with it: adjusting the brakes; greasing the chassis; changing the oil; tuning the engine; etc. Every once in a while he would take all four tires off and set the car on cement blocks. He would have me sit in the driver's seat and pump the brakes while he bled the lines. On one such occasion we did that, then later in the day, Dad put the tires back on the car, and we went for a ride in the country. We were all enjoying the afternoon drive among the trees and the birds when all of a sudden ...WHAM!!!

There we were, bottom of the car slammed against the gravel of the old country road ...

... Dad had forgotten to put the lug nuts on the tires! In my mind's eye I can still see the tires rolling past, all four in perfect synchronization.

[pomtzu]

There we were, bottom of the car slammed against the gravel of the old country road ...

... Dad had forgotten to put the lug nuts on the tires! In my mind's eye I can still see the tires rolling past, all four in perfect synchronization.

Good thing we had no Interstates back then.....