Category: Back in My Day
Tune to the UHF channel located for your vicinity
Before my dad had cable, he had a standard roof antenna, or on the other TV, just “rabbit ears”. The roof antenna usually would do…
The Army needs men to work in movies
My sister was complaining that she spent the whole morning looking for this particular “army man”. Her grandson claims that this one is the “chief”….
Nobody fixes anything anymore.
Another item from my dad’s old 1958 Jensen-Byrd catalog, supplier to hardware retailers all over the west. This is a set of the locking mechanisms…
Time to tighten the belt
This postcard suggests that President Reagan and Nancy simply shaved their heads, to save money on tonsorial services. It seems like a small sacrifice, and…
Drawing = Sitting down and being quiet
This is a project from my son in 2nd or 3rd grade I guess. Apparently the idea was to draw an anti-pollution poster. Because pollution…
Stacks of wax
Teresa still has her KJR cash card! We go way back listening to Seattle radio. When I got my first radio, there were THREE competing…
Home of the future of the past
From my wife’s 1962 World’s Fair stuff, a guide to the “plywood house of light”. Look at the curves! Kids were probably punished by being…
We’ll see.
It is father’s day again, but I don’t even have a recliner, I have to envy my dad’s. I will probably get a “World’s Greatest…
Bring the kids to Vegas??
Here’s an early, early Circus Circus matchbook. I wonder if the clown dude was a mascot at some time, or just a whim. There is…
DB Cooper lives!
I dunno, he could be still around? This restaurant in San Jose rode his coat tails in the 80’s and 90’s, and I’m sure there…
