Now I just look at all the keys on my car radio and go brain dead.
2007-12-16 19:50:34 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I remember when we had a glass accumulate and had to get it charged up every week.
2007-12-16 20:00:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I purchased a new DAB digital radio and after 1 hour trying to get it to tune into just one station I packed it up and took it back. The assistant said that it was the 5th that day to come back as there seems to be an inherent fault in them. There was I thinking that I was loosing it and my wife adding to that possibility. There were such awful instructions with it and they mentioned buttons etc that were just not on the set. I, when young designed and made radio circuits at the HMV factory in Hayes Middlesex so I am not a complete dumb scull. I used to live roving the short wave and picking up foreign stations. Things were so simple in those days. Have a happy and blessed Christmas.
2007-12-17 04:54:17 · answer #2 · answered by ANF 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I remember my mother buying a radio licence in the 50's! The Light Service was on all day until Father came home.
2007-12-17 10:11:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old RCA Victor radio with two dials. One for sound and one to try to get a station to come in clearer. Yes, I remember those and I wish we still had it. Sucker would be worth big bucks as an antique today, I'm thinking!
2007-12-17 08:40:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember an old floor model radio my dad had, and he rigged up a wire for an antenna and he could get short wave on it sometimes. I used to sit and listen to it for hours, I was just fascinated with listening to those voices from the ether!
2007-12-17 10:31:52 · answer #5 · answered by Isadora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember cats whiskers,crystal sets accumulators that you had to take to be charged, something called high tension and low tension batteries and hand cranked record players only we called them gramophones and after that radiograms and a mains powered radio which blew up if you shortened the power lead, not so happy days though.
2007-12-17 08:39:32 · answer #6 · answered by inthedark 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hey, you oldies don't have the monopoly on nostalgia. I drive a car that's only held together by sticky tape and wishful thinking. If it's not on AM radio, I don't hear it.
I might be mid 20s, but I can't even turn on a DVD player.
2007-12-17 04:02:18 · answer #7 · answered by Goonhilda 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I remember I turned a knob on the radio and got mainly static.
2007-12-17 03:54:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Ahhhh...many a holiday in the West Country, sitting in the back of a Morris Oxford tuning into Radio Luxemburg at Poole !!!!!!!!!!!
2007-12-17 04:11:27 · answer #9 · answered by page3685 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
that was back in the day when i was the remote for the television for my parents. i always hated when i would get yelled at for turning the channels too fast. i kept thinking that someday they would get up off of their butts and do it themselves.
the first car i remember my parents having only had an a.m. radio. the second one had an 8 track tape player..
2007-12-17 04:04:00 · answer #10 · answered by djf511 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Those days will come back! With thought waves turning the knob, of course!
2007-12-17 06:45:38 · answer #11 · answered by swanjarvi 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋