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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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My grandma had an icebox all through the 60s. And a coal stove. And a cool radio to listen to FDR on.
- Dec 21, 2007
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In the first house I bought the kitchen wasn't big enough for a refrigerator. A previous owner had built an enclosed back porch and the refrigerator sat out there. It ran on natural gas. They still make gas refrigerators but the one I had was the only one I've actually seen.
Her ice box was on an enclosed back porch away from the stove.
Yeah! My brothers and I had a couple of those, including the glow-in-the-dark mummy one.
edmidlifecrisis
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My old Hallicratters Model S-38D shortwave radio receiver.
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Cool! A father of one of the guys I was in scouts with was big into shortwave. You could see his antennas from blocks away. I never got to see his radios. You would think his radio room was Ft Knox.
I knew a few guys with their entire basement filled with equipment. Even teletype equipped radios.
It was a tradition for radio guys to give less used equipment to beginners. He gave me one of his National receivers.
Also 2 of the radio pictured below. They were WW2 aircraft radios, prolific on surplus market and converted into Ham use in the days when
consumer radios didn't exist.
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We had a set of similar monkey bars. Ours continued on up one level of curved bars that made a dome shape.
Do they still make Mr. Bubble? It was a big hit when dumped in recirculating fountains (malls, public parks).
Barrel Of Monkeys and Mr. Bubble are both still made.
