Old Enough To Remember?

[Firstpeke]

... granny's foot-bath/meat defroster/puke bucket/potato salad/popcorn bowl...

You missed, visiting family dog food/water bowl....... our bowl is green......

 

[Sunday Rider]

Remember making these?

 

[diferg]

I got mine when I was 11 years old. Was very pleased with myself for getting it right the first time!

 

[Sunday Rider]

I got mine when I was 11 years old. Was very pleased with myself for getting it right the first time!

Wasn't it magical when that faint sound first came through on the earpiece? I was so surprised that it would work.

 

[Larry Fine]

I was in the first grade when I found how to build a foxhole radio in a library book.

100 turns of wire on a paper-towel tube, and a pencil lead and blue razor-blade detector.

The head of my bed was next to the tub access panel, so I had a handy ground.

I could see the red lights on the tower of my favorite station, so I had plenty of signal strength.

 

[Slammer]

I had something better back in the early eighties. A filling that could pick up short wave radio when laying in bed. It was mostly morse code but if I moved the bed to another orientation I would get a broad cast.
It was every night dah dah dit dah dah dit dit dah das dit..... not stopping all night. the filing was removed and Salmmer the human radio was no more.

 

[Larry Fine]

So your dentist was able to 'rectify' the problem.

 

[ST1100Y]

... also granny worked you like grooming livestock...

 

[ST1100Y]

 

[bdalameda]

I still have it. Moms treadle Singer

 

[scootac]

Hell, still have one.

 

[John OoSTerhuis]

As a kid I learned to sew on one of those! My wife has her mother’s upgraded electric model with all the attachments. She much prefers it over her modern machine. I used to sew on a Singer 310 as part of my parachute rigger license.

John

 

[ST1100Y]

As a kid I learned to sew on one of those!

Ditto!

 

[Igofar]

Mine is over 50 years old, never leave home without it…

 

[motornut]

Got my butt spanked with on of these too

 

[Larry Fine]

Not only did I learn how to use my mom's treadle, when she got an electric, I figured out how to attach and use the button-hole attachment.

I taught her how to crochet after watching her friend try and fail to teach her. I asked to try, then I taught her how later the same day.

 

[ST1100Y]

... true that

 

[ST1100Y]

... still got one

 

[ST1100Y]

... always reminds me on Sheldon (TBBT)

 

[ST1100Y]

... indeed...