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That's very cool. Sad about the AM radio stations. We're lucky here in Sitka Alaska. We have a great AM. It plays oldies in the morning, light contemporary mixed with greatest hits during the day, and some modern stuff for the kids in the evenings.... Course it's the only AM station in town!......
Where I live, Monterey County, most of the music AM stations are in Spanish. So it's basically talk radio or sports. The beauty with "the old days" with AM, in particular KRLA which I grew up with was that it was so diverse. You could be listening to rock, pop, soul, folk , bubble gum, whatever in the same hour on the same station. I never had to turn the dial all day long. Then the science of "demographics" appeared and pretty much killed that. Too bad, we just looked at it all as just being music, whatever the style was, I would be dancing around to the Beatles or Buffalo Springfield and then I would be dancing around to James Brown or the Supremes. To bad my little 9 volt doesn't operate like that Twilight Zone episode, when I turn it on it's the KRLA of the '60s! Man, I am getting oldThat's very cool. Sad about the AM radio stations. We're lucky here in Sitka Alaska. We have a great AM. It plays oldies in the morning, light contemporary mixed with greatest hits during the day, and some modern stuff for the kids in the evenings.... Course it's the only AM station in town!......
And everyone has a portable AM radio for power outages and civil emergencies. For instance, we had a couple catastrophic landslides and during the emergency we all listended to the AM...
Jim
I've had that sort of thing happen to me.
I remember thinking I was cutting edge when I got my TI SR-10 in the early '70s.
Can't quite remember, but do remember a physics teacher having the first hand-held calculator I ever saw. Made by IBM and cost him $800 in 1970's dollars. Maybe only had four functions. I coveted that thing.
It was Rockwell.
but click the link to see. Schenectady Gazette - Google News Archive Search
My best one was a church lady came in with a box of donations for the church, wondered if anything had any value. 4 leica Ms' with Zeiss fast lenses, 3 Rolliflex in 3 different focal lengths , and 2 Hasselblad 500cm/with lenses, Weston Zone meters and various accessories . I told her I'd give her a $100.00 for the whole box., then told her the actual value. Funny thing is the value of that stuff is /was plummeting. I had about $9000.00 sunk into a Mamiya RZ Pro 2 system that I sold to a college student for $3000.00. About a year later I checked KEH for the going rates, I'd be lucky to have gotten $1500.00 for it. Digital totally killed the film camera market no matter what people say about the film vs digital debate, in the actual business of trying to sell film cameras it was a dead horse. My most popular film camera was the 120 Holga. The low-fi hipster college art students loved them. Easily 90% of my 120 film sales were for the Holgas, a $40.00 camera noted for it's light leaks and lens aberrations made in China. Instant art! It was becoming very rare that anybody was buying 120 for Hassies, Rollies or Mamiyas anymore. I wasn't surprised when Nikon quite making the F6, their last pro body film camera, I would imagine the sales were pretty low, but my F100s' and FM2ns' aren't going anywhere!! I know, if you're not into photography none of this made any senseI've had that sort of thing happen to me.
Now I have a R.B. Auto Graflex with 180mm Tessar , Primo Jr., Hasselblad SWC with two backs, Nikon F2 Photomic, Nikon FE, several Nikkor lenses, including a 55/3.5 Micro-Nikkor with 1:1 extension tube, Busch Pressman C and D cameras with various lenses and accessories, Tower Stereo camera, Graflex flashgun (the Star Wars Light Saber one).................
Jim
I hear you loud and clear!My best one was a church lady came in with a box of donations for the church, wondered if anything had any value. 4 leica Ms' with Zeiss fast lenses, 3 Rolliflex in 3 different focal lengths , and 2 Hasselblad 500cm/with lenses, Weston Zone meters and various accessories . I told her I'd give her a $100.00 for the whole box., then told her the actual value. Funny thing is the value of that stuff is /was plummeting. I had about $9000.00 sunk into a Mamiya RZ Pro 2 system that I sold to a college student for $3000.00. About a year later I checked KEH for the going rates, I'd be lucky to have gotten $1500.00 for it. Digital totally killed the film camera market no matter what people say about the film vs digital debate, in the actual business of trying to sell film cameras it was a dead horse. My most popular film camera was the 120 Holga. The low-fi hipster college art students loved them. Easily 90% of my 120 film sales were for the Holgas, a $40.00 camera noted for it's light leaks and lens aberrations made in China. Instant art! It was becoming very rare that anybody was buying 120 for Hassies, Rollies or Mamiyas anymore. I wasn't surprised when Nikon quite making the F6, their last pro body film camera, I would imagine the sales were pretty low, but my F100s' and FM2ns' aren't going anywhere!! I know, if you're not into photography none of this made any sense
I was very much directly affected by the digital/cell phone onslaught. We had to finally close the custom b&w lab at the end of 2012 (the business started in 1958). Fortunately, my years of selling photo gear was in the '80s when things were riding very high for film. A friend of mine is an engineer who did lots of stuff at Kodak, he was a lifer there as was his wife, now they both are doing different things with Kodak going away, for the most part.
