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I am Pretty Sure Most of You Had one Of this at Home, Back in the Days
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Yep still use it his and her alarms.
Yep
I hope he’s happily retired somewhere.
Along with “willis the guard “
He was the overnight security guard at the station and was Gary’s sidekick a lot of the time.
his song about the “Buford Triangle “ and a couple of others were funny .
I had a clock just like that .
And my parents had an old late 50s early 60s hi-fi record player that didn’t work, but it had a one giant speaker , like a 18 or 20 inch , maybe bigger .
And a tube amp .
The turn table didn’t work but the amp lit up when you turned the power on.
12 yr old me is thinking :
“I wonder if I cut the wires going to the speaker on the clock radio and connect them to the wires where the needle goes on the record player ?”
dang if it didn’t work. And work well.
Much To my parents delight, I was rattling the windows a few minutes later .
Used to listen to Georgia state university’s radio station a couple nights a week when they played oldies at night.
we lived in The mountains , 26 miles from the closest traffic light.
so there wasn’t a lot to do, until i got old enough to get a motorcycle.
I got permission to get a motorcycle when I was 12 .
My mom was cleaning up my room and found a partially empty box of condoms .
So they were petrified and sat me down for the talk.
After I got through talking , they weren’t petrified anymore , they had upgraded to terrified .
we had been using the condoms to make hillbilly hand grenades.
Put a couple of rocks in it, and 1/2 tablespoon of gasoline, tie it up, light it and throw it.
you could even alter the fuse time by how far down you tied the knot.
The talk ended with my father saying :
“ uh so you’ve been talking about how your friend Bobby has a motorcycle , and you want one . Here’s the deal. If you stop making bombs , you can have a motorcycle, but you have earn the money for it , I ain’t paying for a motorcycle that’s you’re Probabaly gonna get seriously injured riding, but I do have a idea about how you might can make some money “
done and done ,
My dad worked at large lake that had lots of tourists, and this lake had dozens of ducks , and the tourists were always coming in the store and wanting to buy bread or whatever to feed the ducks.
So my dad took us to the local feed store and bought some 50 lb bags of corn for $7 each , and a bunch of sandwich bags.
So I’d scoop one coffee cup of corn into a bag and tie it, and they sold the bags of corn in the store for 25 cents.
you could get exactly 200 bags from $7 worth of corn.
So $7 became $50 dollars, three or four or five times or more every week.
Paid for a nice used Honda Trail 90 in no time.
And the trail 90 had a cargo rack on the back , that would hold a 50 lb sack of corn from the feed store 6 miles away and a milk crate of the filled bags to the store at the lake 1/2 mile down the road.
And my parents had an old late 50s early 60s hi-fi record player that didn’t work, but it had a one giant speaker , like a 18 or 20 inch , maybe bigger .
And a tube amp .
The turn table didn’t work but the amp lit up when you turned the power on.
12 yr old me is thinking :
“I wonder if I cut the wires going to the speaker on the clock radio and connect them to the wires where the needle goes on the record player ?”
dang if it didn’t work. And work well.
Much To my parents delight, I was rattling the windows a few minutes later .
Used to listen to Georgia state university’s radio station a couple nights a week when they played oldies at night.
we lived in The mountains , 26 miles from the closest traffic light.
so there wasn’t a lot to do, until i got old enough to get a motorcycle.
I got permission to get a motorcycle when I was 12 .
My mom was cleaning up my room and found a partially empty box of condoms .
So they were petrified and sat me down for the talk.
After I got through talking , they weren’t petrified anymore , they had upgraded to terrified .
we had been using the condoms to make hillbilly hand grenades.
Put a couple of rocks in it, and 1/2 tablespoon of gasoline, tie it up, light it and throw it.
you could even alter the fuse time by how far down you tied the knot.
The talk ended with my father saying :
“ uh so you’ve been talking about how your friend Bobby has a motorcycle , and you want one . Here’s the deal. If you stop making bombs , you can have a motorcycle, but you have earn the money for it , I ain’t paying for a motorcycle that’s you’re Probabaly gonna get seriously injured riding, but I do have a idea about how you might can make some money “
done and done ,
My dad worked at large lake that had lots of tourists, and this lake had dozens of ducks , and the tourists were always coming in the store and wanting to buy bread or whatever to feed the ducks.
So my dad took us to the local feed store and bought some 50 lb bags of corn for $7 each , and a bunch of sandwich bags.
So I’d scoop one coffee cup of corn into a bag and tie it, and they sold the bags of corn in the store for 25 cents.
you could get exactly 200 bags from $7 worth of corn.
So $7 became $50 dollars, three or four or five times or more every week.
Paid for a nice used Honda Trail 90 in no time.
And the trail 90 had a cargo rack on the back , that would hold a 50 lb sack of corn from the feed store 6 miles away and a milk crate of the filled bags to the store at the lake 1/2 mile down the road.
I thought this was the coolest thing ever....
Still have the same model as yours, Otto.
Think mine has thicker layer of dust on top than yours.
Put some window tint over numbers area to make them
not as bright at night. Not only is it a clock & alarm, it also
serves as a direction finder during the night to find the bed
w/o crashing toes into the frame's legs/wheels.
Safe to say I think I've gotten my money's worth X10 at least.
Think mine has thicker layer of dust on top than yours.
Put some window tint over numbers area to make them
not as bright at night. Not only is it a clock & alarm, it also
serves as a direction finder during the night to find the bed
w/o crashing toes into the frame's legs/wheels.
Safe to say I think I've gotten my money's worth X10 at least.
Yep, what's this "back in day" b.s.
