Yeah, and it would eat $2.00 worth of batteries per hour. We've come a long way.

I've still got the slide rule (and leather tooled case) my Grandfather gave me. I pull it out occasionally to scare the teenagers.

It's quite remarkable to remember that we got to the Moon with a room full of "A" type personalities estimating to the least number of significant digits for the entire trip.

Slip stick

He/She has more_______than Carter has pills.........

Which, in turn, led to the term Beatnik...

When you came in from riding your bike did anybody watch TV on one of these?
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Remember Herter's

The Milkman.........

:eek: Yeah, once we got back with the tubes tested at the grocery store and put them all back in.

Some of those things took a good five minutes for the vacuum tubes to all come up to temperature before the picture would clear. Put off enough heat to help heat the house in the winter.

The back panels were a real thrill for curious little boys. Some of the set back panels were basically uninsulated wiring boards with live voltage at various points.

Guess how I know.:eek:

Note the Crocs (shoes). Guy was WAY ahead of his time.

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Those blue seatbelt straps are gonna leave a mark when he lights that puppy up.

OK. I clicked on Last Page. Am I gonna come back tomorrow and find that this isn't the Last Page********************???

I never had one of these. Did you?
http://www.h-spot.net/watches/trafalgar.jpg

Another mathematical memory for me...

For the woodworker with limited space.......

http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/mad118id.jpg

Spy Vs. Spy, Snappy answers to stupid questions, and
Alfred E. Neumann for president.

This is the cover from the month I turned 16.

:eek: You were 16

The trademark of Pat Boone:)

Check the price.:D


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Ummm, Flicks! We used to always buy those at the local movie theaters--or sneak them in for the movie! I loved those things.

"heh, heh--wanna walnetto?" <whack, whack, whack! [by an old lady's purse]>

And the wonder of all mechanical calculators, the Kurta Calculator. I used to spend hours with that old pepper grinder. My parents were into car rallying, so it got used a lot. My Dad and I even won the first rally that we did together. That shocked the rest of the drivers, to be beat by a team that missed the drivers' meeting and had a 10 year old for a Navigator.

I did the cards in the spokes, but a few months back I spied this on eBay and had to have it.

I had no idea what it was, and bought it for the box... It is a metal contraption that hooks to the fork and holds a plastic flap in the spokes.

Plus, it has my name on it. :D

Any soap box derby builders and racers???
The wheels and axles availble at the local Chevrolet dealer for $12.00 which was a huge amount.....for 12 year olds in the 50s....at least for me.

$12.00 was about two weeks income from the paper route.

Remember when EVERY school day began with:

I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands:
one Nation under God, indivisible,
With Liberty and Justice for all.

Anyone old enough to remember it without "under God" ?

I'm not, but just curious...

I am. I remember the announcement that President Eisenhower had approved the change.....1954/1955. I was in the 5th grade.