last.tango wrote:Steadfast wrote:There were many music stations on AM radio here in NYC - WMCA- The Good Guys, WABC 770AM on your radio dial with Cousin Brucee when he had hair.
Combat with Vic Morrow or The Twilight Zone with Rod Serling.
Stead
I'm pretty late reading this thread, but it has sure brought back alot of memories!! Dang!
I grew up in the east and we listened to the NYC radio stations. One had Wolf Man Jack on it too (Ranger Steadfast, was it the same one (770AM) as Cousin Brucee, but a dif. late time slot?)
The riderless horse at President Kennedy's funeral burnt itself into my young brain.
I remember when color TV came out. All my friends families got one, but my Dad wouldn't because our B&W worked just fine. I was an adult before I knew the "dream" in The Wizard of OZ was in color!
Those were the days....
last.tango,
Yeah I remember Wolfman Jack but not which station he was on. If I had a rememberall like that heavy kid in the Henry Potter flicks that could record the date when I lost those facts from yesteryear I would spend my last dollars and make a fortune.
last.tango - every Saturday evening Mark Samone hosts the ABC 770AM radio program and they feature music from 8 in the evening until 12:00 Midnight, and during these broadcasts Mark Samone puts on old ads too.
One of the last Rock & Roll radio shows was CBS on FM @ 101.1 - It left the air after broadcasting music initially from the 50's thru the 80's, then it was updated saying from the 60's to the new millenium - Today it is now called JACK - The bass they play blows my small transitor radio off the table (like it has mexican jumping beans)
- As part of their new promotions they have callers leave a message on their machine - Oce caller sez, "You don't know JACK shit JACK! A female mechanical voice sez, "deleted" - the next message sez, "I love my JACK" voice sez, "keeper!" Times sure have changed.
Whatever happened to the
:
Slinky
Lionel Trains
Tyco Slot Racing Cars (I remember I loved my 1966 new red Buick Riveria)
The Draft (not the beer)
The original Volkswagen Bug or Van (Van akin to todays Family vans)
Silly Putty
Fountain Pens & Ink wells in your desk
Schwinn Bike's (with springs on the fork in the front)
Roller skates (ya clamped on your sneakers)
Wooden Milk crates we made into skooter by nailing a wooden milk box, a 2X4" 2 feet long and then nailing 1/2 of a roller skate for its wheels
Skellsie (Bottle Caps filled with wax to add heft and shoot them into drawn boxes on the ground outside)
Marbles (Shooting Cats Eyes [not the dice])
Chicken Pox, the Mumps
Sneaker brands, was two types: PF Flyer & Keds (then came along Converse)
Black Cars - (all the major American Car companies stopped making black cars except Limo's)
Rambler Car Works met its demise in the 70's. Along with the AMC Pacer
No air conditioners while I was growing up (my neighborhood)
I was one of the few that the Nuns didn't try to make me write with my right because I grew up writing lefty. Still threw the ball with my right tho. So that made me ambi- dexterous.
girls, Peddle Pushers, Two tone shoes
boys, putting baseball cards on rear wheel with a clothes pin to increase the sound similar to a engine with a bad muffler.
Flipping, tossing matching while playing with baseball cards - bubble gum with the baseball cards.
Chicklet Gum Machines at every Station platform on the Subways, put 2 pennies for a few pieces of gum. Ride the Subways 27 miles through all of NYC for the cost of one token. Token cost all of 15 cents to get on the Subway - exposed ceiling fans on the Subway Cars - The seats on Subway cars and buses were made of woven straw. The neighborhood vegetable seller/man came on a horsedrawn cart right to your door.
Pizza 15 cents a slice 75 cents for a pizza pie.
Hertz car rental commericals - showed a man in a sitting position being floating through the air into the drivers seat of a Hertz.
Soap Detergent - This one I loved watching to know I wansn't crazy after coming hom from Vietnam - Through the open door of a washing machine -came a mucle man's fist tell you to use strong soap bla bla bla. (When was the last time you saw a muscle mans arm come up through the door of your washing machine)
The T.V. shows were a hoot - Father Knows Best, with Donna Reed, Carl Best (whatever), Shelley Fabres who sang Johnny Angel on the show. The past was their whole family sitting at the table together with their father in a suit and mom in a nice dress,
yeah right 
that show meant my family came from outter space.
~Like me outter here~
