I'm so old that....

~CA
 

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I learned to drive in a 1958 1/2 ton Chevy. It had a "three-on-the-tree" and a floor starter button that you pushed with your right foot while also trying to hold the brake and push the accelerator at the same time. Try starting that on a hill! Oh, and it had the vacuum powered windshield wipers.
 
I am so old that:

I've dialed a black Bakelite rotary dial phone with no answering machine.

Recorded a song off a transistor radio onto a tape recorder.

Watched a black and white TV with less than 4 channels, and had aluminum foil on the rabbit ears.

Taken long walks without counting the steps.

And eaten food that I didn't take pictures of.

There were some more, but I've forgotten what they were....I may think of them at 2am.....
My 55 Chevy had gas cap behind tail light and I paid 18 cents for a gallon of gas also
 
When the vacuum tube that did the sound went out in our black and white console TV, we watched the Cards vs Yankees on the tube and listened to it on the vacuum tube radio. The radio game was much more exciting than the TV game! Harry Carry really laid it on thick. A player standing in the outfield was catching a ball hit without moving on TV. On radio, he’s running, he’s running, he leaps and catches the ball before going over the fence! Hooollllllyyy Cow!
 
An orange truly was a treat in our Christmas stockings, and our stockings were Dad's old, mended socks.
 
When the vacuum tube that did the sound went out in our black and white console TV, we watched the Cards vs Yankees on the tube and listened to it on the vacuum tube radio. The radio game was much more exciting than the TV game! Harry Carry really laid it on thick. A player standing in the outfield was catching a ball hit without moving on TV. On radio, he’s running, he’s running, he leaps and catches the ball before going over the fence! Hooollllllyyy Cow!
I remember Harry well. Late in his career, the Reds were in Chicago. The Reds brought in relief-pitcher Rob Dibble with a 0.00 ERA. Harry checked the stat to make sure it was accurate and then said "Nobody's that good, let's get this guy."

Another announcer might have thought "Uh oh, we're in trouble now", but wouldn't have said it on the air. Harry's positve attitude super-charged the fans.
 
I’m so old, we had to go outside with a bucket and crank the pump for water, took a bath in a galvanized tub with hot water made with an electric plug in heater, and had to walk 100’ each way to “go to the bathroom” which was a two holer and a crescent moon in the door.
 
When the vacuum tube that did the sound went out in our black and white console TV, we watched the Cards vs Yankees on the tube and listened to it on the vacuum tube radio. The radio game was much more exciting than the TV game! Harry Carry really laid it on thick. A player standing in the outfield was catching a ball hit without moving on TV. On radio, he’s running, he’s running, he leaps and catches the ball before going over the fence! Hooollllllyyy Cow!
And yhe next day you went to cats, I mean skags, now walgreens and test your tubes yourself, then pull a replacement out of the rack of tubes.
 
As an early teenager I had an old tube radio that was my late grandfathers. I could lay in bed at night and listen to WOWO Fort Wayne Indiana clear as a bell, way up in northern NY.
 
Jflight, I got a AM only tube type radio that was plastic and had a fiberboard back with holes in it for Christmas. It provided music, talk radio, night light and in the winter heat.
 

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