08-14-2025, 07:06 PM
Exploding caps are fun! Kinda like those new years pop streamers that look like little champagne bottles. Gotta duck when the can flies by though.
That BX55 looks familiar from my childhood memories too. Mom and Dad had one, likely given them as a wedding present in 1947. I did get into the back of it when I was about 4 or 5, then it disappeared and was replaced with a clock radio. They never used it on batteries, only line power. For years, a radio played in the kitchen, WCBS (pre-News Radio 88, The Arthur Godfrey Show, standards, etc. At night, Lowel Thomas and the News.
I should buy one on eBay just as a childhood memory.
One of these days, I need to photograph and curate my collection, maybe put it on the internet.
That BX55 looks familiar from my childhood memories too. Mom and Dad had one, likely given them as a wedding present in 1947. I did get into the back of it when I was about 4 or 5, then it disappeared and was replaced with a clock radio. They never used it on batteries, only line power. For years, a radio played in the kitchen, WCBS (pre-News Radio 88, The Arthur Godfrey Show, standards, etc. At night, Lowel Thomas and the News.
I should buy one on eBay just as a childhood memory.
One of these days, I need to photograph and curate my collection, maybe put it on the internet.
"Do Justly, love Mercy and walk humbly with your God"- Micah 6:8
"Let us begin to do good"- St. Francis
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MrFixr55
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