Edited: Maybe it's too personal .
Raj
Who is the oldest member of this forum?
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From nine years ago - http://www.besslerwheel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=59407
At that time Grimmer was in the 70-79 range, so would be in the 79-88 range now.
Our youngest member was Jonathan, I think at that time he was somewhere between age 14 and 16. He was a child genius. He left the forum soon after to attend university at a very young age. He should be about age 23-25 now.
Gleaned from forum searching and calculations...
JuBragg is near 81. Grimmer is 81. Ralph is 73. John Collins is 68. Jim_Mich is 66.
My parents bought their first TV in 1956. I was 9 years old. We had three TV channels from out of Detroit, channels 2,4,7. If we rotated the antenna using the rotor control box, we could get two more channels 11,13 out of Toledo Ohio, but they were fuzzy and hard to watch. Then Canada added channel 9 out of Windsor Ontario. We had the biggest antenna available, mounted on a tall pipe mast with the rotor motor to rotate the antenna. It was on the peak of my parents big two story farm house, that sat at the top of a small hill. We could 'see' stations from Lansing, Jackson and Flint, but they were too weak and fuzzy to watch, and since there were only the three networks of ABC, NBC, CBS, the weak stations broadcast the same shows as the strong stations. CKLW on channel 9 from Canada was independent, so they broadcast a lot of movies. I spent many a rainy Sunday afternoon watching CKLW's Million Dollar Movies.
Just remembering...
At that time Grimmer was in the 70-79 range, so would be in the 79-88 range now.
Our youngest member was Jonathan, I think at that time he was somewhere between age 14 and 16. He was a child genius. He left the forum soon after to attend university at a very young age. He should be about age 23-25 now.
Gleaned from forum searching and calculations...
JuBragg is near 81. Grimmer is 81. Ralph is 73. John Collins is 68. Jim_Mich is 66.
I remember every one of these. Not from pictures! I actually experienced every one of these, and many more.Ralph, in [url=http://www.besslerwheel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=98009#98009]this post,[/url] wrote:Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Candy cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with table-side juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Studebaker's
15. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 11-15 =You're older than dirt!
My parents bought their first TV in 1956. I was 9 years old. We had three TV channels from out of Detroit, channels 2,4,7. If we rotated the antenna using the rotor control box, we could get two more channels 11,13 out of Toledo Ohio, but they were fuzzy and hard to watch. Then Canada added channel 9 out of Windsor Ontario. We had the biggest antenna available, mounted on a tall pipe mast with the rotor motor to rotate the antenna. It was on the peak of my parents big two story farm house, that sat at the top of a small hill. We could 'see' stations from Lansing, Jackson and Flint, but they were too weak and fuzzy to watch, and since there were only the three networks of ABC, NBC, CBS, the weak stations broadcast the same shows as the strong stations. CKLW on channel 9 from Canada was independent, so they broadcast a lot of movies. I spent many a rainy Sunday afternoon watching CKLW's Million Dollar Movies.
Just remembering...
re: Who is the oldest member of this forum?
I was ten years old in 1956, in standard four class in the village school. The first time, I watch a TV was in 1965 at the village hall.
How many remember "HOPPY, GENE, AND ME"? No, not the song, the silver screen and TV characters that this song was about.
jim_mich wrote:From nine years ago - http://www.besslerwheel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=59407
At that time Grimmer was in the 70-79 range, so would be in the 79-88 range now.
Our youngest member was Jonathan, I think at that time he was somewhere between age 14 and 16. He was a child genius. He left the forum soon after to attend university at a very young age. He should be about age 23-25 now.
Gleaned from forum searching and calculations...
JuBragg is near 81. Grimmer is 81. Ralph is 73. John Collins is 68. Jim_Mich is 66.
I remember every one of these. Not from pictures! I actually experienced every one of these, and many more.Ralph, in [url=http://www.besslerwheel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=98009#98009]this post,[/url] wrote:Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Candy cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with table-side juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Studebaker's
15. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 11-15 =You're older than dirt!
My parents bought their first TV in 1956. I was 9 years old. We had three TV channels from out of Detroit, channels 2,4,7. If we rotated the antenna using the rotor control box, we could get two more channels 11,13 out of Toledo Ohio, but they were fuzzy and hard to watch. Then Canada added channel 9 out of Windsor Ontario. We had the biggest antenna available, mounted on a tall pipe mast with the rotor motor to rotate the antenna. It was on the peak of my parents big two story farm house, that sat at the top of a small hill. We could 'see' stations from Lansing, Jackson and Flint, but they were too weak and fuzzy to watch, and since there were only the three networks of ABC, NBC, CBS, the weak stations broadcast the same shows as the strong stations. CKLW on channel 9 from Canada was independent, so they broadcast a lot of movies. I spent many a rainy Sunday afternoon watching CKLW's Million Dollar Movies.
Just remembering...
i remember all of the above , and im only 29,...( for the 27th time...:) )