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Location: The Circle City. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
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** I had a Fender guitar and amp around 1955, years later I worked around the corner from the Fender factory, many years later I live in the same town the Fender Custom Guitar factory.
Yes. When I was a teen in the 1960s, I bought a used Harmony Bobcat H-15 electric guitar (a terrible brand) and a small Fender Champ AA764 amp for $50. In 2014 I sold the amp for close to $500 and the guitar went for $400.
Maybe this post should have been placed in the Paranormal froums? As I was writing it, my grand daughter called me to tell me she just brought home a Hughes and Kettner tube head. (key Twilight Zone music here.)
But I'm so old I remember sitting with my brother and sister on my aunt's goose down mattress and listening to The Lone Ranger on a floor-standing tube radio the size of a small apartment refrigerator. I think that would have been ca 1954/1955.
Yes ...... that warm glow from the tubes. My grand parents had a "ALL WOOD AM Radio Floor Model " Lone Ranger - The Shadow - Green Hornet - Bosco and the Decoder Ring.. had to have that decoder ring.
My grand parents had a "ALL WOOD AM Radio Floor Model " Lone Ranger - The Shadow - Green Hornet - Bosco and the Decoder Ring.. had to have that decoder ring.
Imagine one of those old Zenith radios in a "tiny house". You could use the tubes for heating.
BTW, I still have one. The big radio I mean; not a tiny house.
Eventually. Over the years, I did learn a thing or two about cars. I know about a service schedule, but there was no way that I could get those lug nuts to give up. I also wasn't going to lie on gravel to change my oil.
** I had a Fender guitar and amp around 1955, years later I worked around the corner from the Fender factory, many years later I live in the same town the Fender Custom Guitar factory.
Remember when there were only four or five good guitar builders that anyone knew anything about; e.g., Gibson, Fender, Martin, Gretsch and to a lesser extent Richenbacker? No one wanted anything built in Japan. Now vintage guitars built in Japan are sought over anything built in China.
It has always been sad to me to see the old American guitar builders moving some of their lines to Asia but I suppose business demanded it once business borders started to disintegrate.
Sold Burpee flower seeds as a pre-teen and Crowell-Collier encyclopedias and Kirby vacuums as a young adult. Drove a Divco milk truck (no seat - you stood up) for Foremost dairies. My uncle sold Kaisers and Henry Js but I liked Hudsons more. Not an autograph hound, but do have Lawrence Welk's and Red Skelton's. My other two old ones are Senator George Murphy (CA) and Nellie Fox (White Sox 2nd baseman.)
I would rather have my fingernails slowly removed than be forced to watch one more hour-long Lawrence Welk Variety Show.
Lol. I guess I just have an old soul then because even as a little girl I liked the Lawrence Welk Show. (Don't worry. I also liked the Donny & Marie Show, Dance Fever, and Solid Gold.Haha.)
I also wasn't going to lie on gravel to change my oil.
Gerania.
You've hit upon the the reason I decided not to follow a career in auto mechanics from my young days in high school auto mechanics. I certainly don't mind hard work but even then I pictured myself at 70 years old down on a cold oily garage floor in the middle of January looking at the dirty side of someone's car..
I have to say though that sitting for hours, weeks, months and years in a hot cubicle in a closed-windowed Federal building dealing with environmental issues that had no solutions short of the use of side arms has a way of changing your perspective on what is, or should be, perceived as "terrible jobs."
I guess jobs are just jobs but I am so old I remember when oil "cans" were actually cardboard.
Location: The Circle City. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
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I have to say though that sitting for hours, weeks, months and years in a hot cubicle in a closed-windowed Federal building dealing with environmental issues that had no solutions short of the use of side arms has a way of changing your perspective on what is, or should be, perceived as "terrible jobs."
OMG HPR, thats what my #2 son does for the US Navy. He's had it and taking early retirement. The stories are unbelievable.
I'm so old I remember... The drive in.. and sneaking the friends in using the trunk..
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