[Chas]

Sorry winkydink

This way off topic, but if your remember, enjoy...

MrFixr55,

Up until this afternoon I thought I would have possibly one cord.

Tv's sort of "came along" but I sold off the last of them a few years back. I have cleaned many TV technician estates and would bring home box lots of tangled cable cords wire. Sort through junk most and wind up the cords and separate. I pricked through and found all those to my surprise. There is about 10 more that are polarized. I also have "some" clips and chassis male connectors.

But the punch out in the TV back determines if the female end needs ears and the front protrusion is of different length depending how forward the chassis is. Some male chassis have "squarish" corners, others rounded. So the real mate has to fit or an oversize one has to have the vinyl trimmed.

I no longer fix or collect TV's yet still have TV's bits and pieces around... I have some 900' of foam twin lead on a large spool. I used to put up TV antennas to so there is still antenna hardware around.. In fact I am going to put up a deep fringe antenna this Spring. Xfinity is charging me 48$ for the locals and extended channels, I do not use the extended offerings so with an antenna I can cut my cable bill to just the Internet at $49/mo.

Winky Dink (tv), yes, sometime in 52-54 I think it was channel (11), at the time with a "Two over One" antenna we had (4) WBZ, (7) WNAC, (10) WJAR & (11) (forgot call). Winky was on one of them. There may still be a crayon with a checkered paper covering floating around, the plastic sheet is long gone.

You can still find these shows on YouTube like Howdy Doody, Soupy Sales, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop, Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney, Bob Clampett's "Beany and Cecil". But I remember the adult shows too, Art Linkletter's House Party, My Little Margie, Topper, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, WBZ's Big Brother Bob Emery, Skippy Peanut Butter's, "You asked for It", Zane Grey Theatre, Sargent Preston of the Yukon, (theme song "Donna Diana), Mr. Wizard, Ernie Kovacs (a TV pioneer)"Three to get Ready", Liberace, Korla Pandit, Hallmark Hall of Fame Movies. and more as my memory lights up again...

Our front room, known as the Parlour, had a light blue short nap rug, because I was oldest of three, there were three worn spots in the carpet where we sat one behind the other in front of the Sparton.

The old Sparton went through three sets of selenium rectifiers, FWIR before it was retired by '56. It wasn't scrapped until '73...

Every so often I will watch one of these shows on YouTube, 70 years will melt away and I become just as thrilled as I was then..

I liked my radio dramas too, but to often these were at my bedtime. I have a little Emerson by my bedside that entertained. I often listened to a local morning radio show. Dad's dining room console is but a faded memory it was a Philco but the mode,l nope, when the Sparton arrived, the Philco went away. I remember taunting the speaker of the Philco when "Sugar Blues" (an oldie in early 50's) played...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaUmY83Rw4

Chas