OT I LOVE my Turntable. I love vinyl!

[John Kuthe]

Our lives are analog. Digital is just a sampling thereof.

NP: Lou Reed "I Never Said It Would Be Nice"

John Kuthe...

[Gary]

John Kuthe wrote:

I have a collection of over 600 vinyl lps.
- some from the 1950's
- more from the 1960's
- most of them from the 1970's
- and a few from the 1980's

I have them all stored on a long shelf, stacked upright
like books are stored.

Several would be collector's items now except my darn
cat always used that for a scratching post. All the albums
are in good shape except for the ragged narrow ends of the
covers.

Many more old ones too on cassette tape and even some
on the old 8-track tapes.

[GM]

Did ya ever have a reel - to - reel, in the early 70's I got a TEAC rtr deck, had a bunch of pre - recorded tapes, thought that was the height of luxury...now I cannot imagine fiddling with such a mechanical device...

One thing about digital downloads is that they have really crummy sound compared to a good analog LP...

--
Best
Greg

[Cindy Hamilton]

I got rid of all that old crap. The albums were all scratched up.
Tape doesn't last very long. All my DVDs are in boxes in the basement.
It's all digital downloads for me. They all sound better than the
AM radio in my first car.

Cindy Hamilton

[John Kuthe]

That is not saying very much.

John Kuthe...

[Taxed and Spent]

The young people don't know any better, and the old people can't hear
any good any more.

[Bruce]

Same here. Digital's much handier. Same with books. I only read
digital books. They don't take up room after I've finished them. And
they're quick to buy online. I don't have to wait for delivery of a
piece of dead tree.

[GM]

Yup, both true...and some of us grew up at a time when "hi - fi" was a big thing, that pretty much no longer exists, AFAIK now it is generally integrated with high - end video display systems...

--
Best
Greg

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 1:33:38 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
>
> and some of us grew up at a time when "hi - fi" was a big thing, that pretty much no longer exists, AFAIK now it is generally integrated with high - end video display systems...
>
> --
> Best
> Greg
>

Oh yes, 'hi-fi' was BIG stuff back in its' day. Remember when you could
buy a console TV that included an AM/FM radio PLUS a turntable?? Hot stuff
until either the turntable or radio went on the blink. Then if you had it
repaired, which meant a trip to the repair shop, you were without a TV.

That's when homes only had one TV and many didn't have whichever was not
working repaired.

[ba...@dontspam.silent.com]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 09:47:09 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
<angelica...@yahoo.com> wrote:

So an AM car radio is your baseline??

[Cindy Hamilton]

A very minimal baseline.

My husband's PC has quite nice speakers (for a PC) and he listens to
music through them all the time. My PC doesn't, and I don't. Our
TV has a soundbar that produces amazingly good sound.

Beyond a certain point, I just don't care. Audiophiles are wankers,
just like car guys or any other fanatic.

Cindy Hamilton

[Nemo]

> Gary wrote:
>

>>
>> I have them all stored on a long shelf, stacked upright like books are
>> stored.
>>
>> Several would be collector's items now except my darn cat always used
>> that for a scratching post. All the albums are in good shape except for
>> the ragged narrow ends of the covers.
>>
>> Many more old ones too on cassette tape and even some on the old
>> 8-track tapes.
>
>
> Did ya ever have a reel - to - reel, in the early 70's I got a TEAC rtr
> deck, had a bunch of pre - recorded tapes, thought that was the height
> of luxury...now I cannot imagine fiddling with such a mechanical
> device...
>
> One thing about digital downloads is that they have really crummy sound
> compared to a good analog LP...

I had a TEAC rtr, a Sansui 5000 amp and a Zenith Transoceanic radio
that i bought overseas. I believe the TEAC was sold in this country as a
Roberts. I can remember a cousin demostrating her new Hi-Fi system
to me by playing The Everly Brothers. When I buy a CD, not often, the
first thing I do is suck the songs off of it and convert them to MP3s
using Exact Audio Copy on a Windows system. It cuts their size to about
a seventh. My old ears usually can't tell the difference. However in
one of my all time favorite Moody Blues songs, Out and In, there's a
long fadeout at the end that's completely missing from the converted
MP3.

[Nemo]

Some of my relatives had a TV where you could hold down one of two
buttons on top and it'd clunk through the channels. They thought it
was the cat's ass. My father spent a good bit of time behind ours,
B&W of course, pulling tubes and taking them down to a tube testing
machine.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 2:37:42 PM UTC-5, Nemo wrote:
> >
> Some of my relatives had a TV where you could hold down one of two
> buttons on top and it'd clunk through the channels. They thought it
> was the cat's ass. My father spent a good bit of time behind ours,
> B&W of course, pulling tubes and taking them down to a tube testing
> machine.
>

Oh gosh yes, I can remember my dad taking tubes out and putting a replacement
in. Also, there was some sort of spray in a can that would clean the channel
dial nob so it would turn smoothly. Rabbit ears of course but we never used
aluminum foil on them as some people did. Ours always got good reception for
the four channels we received.

[John Kuthe]

I have an amazing system:

Front end:

https://i.postimg.cc/y8zRCC9H/My-system.jpg

Listeneing Room right:

https://i.postimg.cc/rmLHFmM5/12-10-19-Right.jpg

Listening Room left:

https://i.postimg.cc/634Zw4PH/Best-12-30-19-Left.jpg

Records:

https://i.postimg.cc/jdV20xGv/Two-Record-Racks-No-Microphone.jpg

I think I shall go listen to an LP. I wonder which Lou Reed album I shall listen to? :-)

[Nemo]

We could only get 2 where I lived. Our antennae was on a tall piece of
pipe that fit into a short piece of pipe with a larger inner diameter
that was was buried in the ground. Sometimes it needed to be turned a
little. My cousin, the one with the new Hi-Fi system, had a tv that you
had to sit in the dark at night to be able to make out the picture. We
usually watched Johnny Carson.

[Bruce]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 12:22:45 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton

lol, maybe they call themselves superhearers, just like we have a few
self-proclaimed supertasters in RFC.

[John Kuthe]

On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 3:34:57 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
...

>
> lol, maybe they call themselves superhearers, just like we have a few
> self-proclaimed supertasters in RFC.

Bryan was a supertaster.

John Kuthe...

[graham]

Our first TV was a 14" B&W. I can't imagine watching something on my
laptop perched 6-8 feet away.

[GM]

Of your sperm...???

--
Best
Greg

[Taxed and Spent]

needed to attenuate those Xrays.

[graham]

Certainly! :-) My parents also insisted that we turn off the TV if there
was a thunderstorm.

[Lucretia Borgia]

When I was in hospital my daughter pulled the tv over and switched on.
It was a very old 'tube' type television and we marvelled how little
we really appreciate the reception we have these days and how sharp
the pic is. Good thing to be reminded once in a while.

[Dave Smith]

On 2020-06-02 5:15 p.m., graham wrote:

>> We could only get 2 where I lived.  Our antennae was on a tall piece of
>> pipe that fit into a short piece of pipe with a larger inner diameter
>> that was  was buried in the ground.  Sometimes it needed to be turned a
>> little. My  cousin, the one with the new Hi-Fi system, had a tv that you
>> had to sit in the dark at night to be able to make out the picture. We
>> usually watched Johnny Carson.
>>
>>
>>
> Our first TV was a 14" B&W. I can't imagine watching something on my
> laptop perched 6-8 feet away.

The laptop's image is likely infinitely clearer. Those old TVs had a lot
of snow and ghosts.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

We got ABC, CBS, and NBC and when PBS was added to the lineup we thought we
were really 'uptown.' But I do remember when stations went off the air at
midnight and some signed off at 2:00 a.m.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 4:51:39 PM UTC-5, graham wrote:
>
> My parents also insisted that we turn off the TV if there
> was a thunderstorm.
>

I can remember waiting with great excitement for a National Geographic
special to be aired on a Sunday afternoon. That's when they had a
special on *maybe* once a year. Sunday was also the day when adults
would visit their friends after church and after lunch. Invariably
friends would show up and we didn't have a den. We'd raise such a
stink when parents insisted the TV be turned off so they could talk
they'd slink off to the kitchen.

[jmcquown]

Wherever I was living those stations signed off at midnight. In the US
they played the Star Spangled Banner and everyone went to bed. I wasn't
actually allowed to stay up past 10PM until I was a teenager.

Remember the movie 'Poltergeist'? Little girl got out of bed when the
TV went off and there was nothing but static playing on the TV. Then
she got sucked into the television. Steven Spielberg, very spooky.
Great special effects for 1976.

Jill

[jmcquown]

The "snow" was the best part of fond old memories of rabbit ear
television. ;)

Jill

[graham]

My Grandparents bought the first TV in the village back in 1953 in time
for the Coronation. A tall mast had to be constructed for the aerial as
the signal came from London, at least 90 miles away. Every time the
"snow" started, my Grandfather would use a huge pipe wrench to turn the
mast a bit while we shouted whether the picture was getting better or not.
Things improved when the BBC put up a mast about 30 miles away and when
the Independent TV built one 6 miles away we had to get an attenuator to
cut the signal strength.

[Ed Pawlowski]

You have to unplug it. Lightening took out my TV, a receiver, both
turned off, and doorbell. receptacle, and a circuit breaker.

In this house I have a whole house surge protector as it is one of the
most lightening prone areas of the country. Not in the season yet and
this year have had 1400 strikes within 20 miles according to my weather
station that has a sensor for it.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Were you allowed to stay up at night to watch Milton Berle or Sid
Ceaser? Friday night Fights sponsored by Gillette was a big deal too.
That may be a bit before your time.

[graham]

Blimey! there have been a couple of storms this past week and there will
be many more before the fall. However, I haven't heard of anyone losing
their stuff, unless there is a direct strike of course.
We were much more vulnerable in the UK as my parents had an aerial on
the chimney which would have been a good lightning conductor. And I
remember unplugging it every night.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

I don't think we watched Milton Berle or Sid Ceaser but the Friday night
fights were never missed!

[Cindy Hamilton]

How nice for you.

Cindy Hamilton

[John Kuthe]

My father taught me about quality audio equipment, like McIntosh preamps and power amps. Top of the line!

He was a radio man on a B-24 in WWII and knew good electronics! Was a Ham radio operator at home too!

John Kuthe...

[Lucretia Borgia]

I cut the cable 3 or 4 years ago now as the basic plan contained so
many sports channels I never watched. Then pick a channel came in and
I called and wanted 3 channels and that was going to be even more
expensive! So I quit. Have not regretted it. I do have rabbit ears
and in the summer when the trees have leaves (my unit is basically in
the tree canopy) it interferes with the signal. I suddenly thought of
the foil trick and it works! That gives me the 3 local channels and
the rest of it I stream, plus I do have Netflix and that's as much tv
as I need.

I watched Netflix' Filthy Rich the other day about Jeffrey Epstein,
never has a title been so apt. They had also done one about Prince
Andrew and his connection with him after Andrew did the ill fated
press conference. Both were excellent.

[Gary]

GM wrote:
>
> Gary wrote:
>
> > John Kuthe wrote:
> >
> > I have a collection of over 600 vinyl lps.
> > - some from the 1950's
> > - more from the 1960's
> > - most of them from the 1970's
> > - and a few from the 1980's
> >
> > I have them all stored on a long shelf, stacked upright
> > like books are stored.
> >
> > Several would be collector's items now except my darn
> > cat always used that for a scratching post. All the albums
> > are in good shape except for the ragged narrow ends of the
> > covers.
> >
> > Many more old ones too on cassette tape and even some
> > on the old 8-track tapes.
>

> Did ya ever have a reel - to - reel, in the early 70's

I almost bought one - a 4-track just so I could add tracks to
my own songs and make it sound like a band was playing.

I did make a few "duet" songs of myself. Very cheap versions
though. I used my duel cassette player. I recorded a song
with microphone and played guitar and sang. Then played that
back with a microphone next to speaker and one for myself and
the second cassette recorded both. Fun to do.

Would be very cool to do it right with a multi-track recorder.

George Harrison did that for his "All Things Must Pass" album

[Gary]

jmcquown wrote:
>
> Remember the movie 'Poltergeist'? Little girl got out of bed when the
> TV went off and there was nothing but static playing on the TV. Then
> she got sucked into the television. Steven Spielberg, very spooky.
> Great special effects for 1976.

I'll always remember that movie. First saw it on HBO in the
early 1980's when my daughter was about the same age as
the little girl, "Carol-Ann," I think.

Well, my daughter saw the previews and really wanted to watch
it even though it was after her bed time. She wanted to
watch as the girl was about the same age.

So we let her stay up late to watch it. *BIG MISTAKE*
Seeing what happened to the little girl, getting sucked
into the tv to another dimension land scared the hell
out of her and for the next month, she would only sleep
in our bed right between "safe" Mom and Dad. lol

[Gary]

Ed Pawlowski wrote:

>
> graham wrote:
> > Certainly! :-) My parents also insisted that we turn off the TV if there
> > was a thunderstorm.
>
> You have to unplug it.

Not only unplug the tv but also unscrew the cable line too.
Had a friend once that lost her tv. She had unplugged it but
didn't think about the cable connection. Nearby strike took
out her tv.

> In this house I have a whole house surge protector as it is one of the
> most lightening prone areas of the country.

Don't know how your whole house one works but I have a few of the
individual outlet ones. At least in the past, they would work
only
once then you had to replace them. The steady red light indicited
that they were good. After a power surge protection, that red
light would blink to let you know it needed to be replaced.

[Dave Smith]

We had a crazy storm here last night. The sky was like a stroboscope for
a while with constant flashing in all directions, constant rumbling and
a lot of nearby strikes. Then there was the hail... 2cm in diameter. I
had never seen hail stones that big around here.

[jmcquown]

On 6/2/2020 5:51 PM, graham wrote:

> Certainly! :-) My parents also insisted that we turn off the TV if there
> was a thunderstorm.

Might have been sound advice, Graham. I actually had a TV get fried
(this was back around 1984) during a thunderstorm. Lightning struck
nearby. I heard a POP! and that TV was history.

When I was a teenager we were told not to talk on the phone during a
thunderstorm. Might get shocked! Ah, the good old days. ;)

Jill

[Gary]

I've even heard not to bathe or shower during a thunderstorm.
I suppose a close stike could even make that dangerous.

Of my 4 ferrets, only the large male one was absolutely
terrified of the thunder. I felt so bad when that happened
while I was at work. I knew he was freaking out.

Anytime at home during a thunder storm, I would pick him up and
hold him close and constantly reassure him that he was safe.
He was a cool ferret but he didn't deal with that well at all.

[jmcquown]

On 6/3/2020 8:37 AM, Gary wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> Remember the movie 'Poltergeist'? Little girl got out of bed when the
>> TV went off and there was nothing but static playing on the TV. Then
>> she got sucked into the television. Steven Spielberg, very spooky.
>> Great special effects for 1976.
>

I was wrong. It was a Tobe Hooper film but written by Spielburg. And
it was 1982.

> I'll always remember that movie. First saw it on HBO in the
> early 1980's when my daughter was about the same age as
> the little girl, "Carol-Ann," I think.
>

"Carol Ann? Carol Ann! I can't hear her anymore."

> Well, my daughter saw the previews and really wanted to watch
> it even though it was after her bed time. She wanted to
> watch as the girl was about the same age.
>

Ooops! Hadn't you seen the previews?

> So we let her stay up late to watch it. *BIG MISTAKE*
> Seeing what happened to the little girl, getting sucked
> into the tv to another dimension land scared the hell
> out of her and for the next month, she would only sleep
> in our bed right between "safe" Mom and Dad. lol
>

In the movie, the young kids were sleeping in their parents' bed because
they were scared by a huge storm. The parents (Craig T. Nelson and
JoBeth Williams) were smoking a joint and having a good time when the
little boy came in to say the storm was scaring them. The dad convinced
them the storm was moving away, know how to tell? Count the thunder
after the lightning. Boy was he wrong. LOL

The kids ran in to sleep with their parents. Everyone was asleep when
Carol Ann woke up, climbed to the end of the bed and got down in front
of the TV and put her hands on it. And then the hand came out of the TV...

I have to wonder why those folks never turned off their television sets
when they went to bed.

"They're heeeere!" Scared the heck out of me and I was in my 20's. I
can only imagine what impression it would have had on your 6 year old
daughter.

Jill

[jmcquown]

My cat Persia didn't like thunderstorms. She'd hide under the bed.
There was a time when a tornado came very near our apartment in Cordova.
The warning siren was right on the corner but the really loud storm
had already awakened me. It was about 3AM. I went into the living room
and turned on the TV. Tornado spotted in Cordova, take cover! About
that time the TV clicked off (electricity out) and the siren started
wailing. It was then I found out the siren was hooked up to the
national weather service and I heard a loud booming voice "TAKE COVER,
TAKE COVER!" That startled me.

Well, I went into the master bathroom (yes, I had two bathrooms) with a
pillow and a blanket, a flashlight and my little weather radio. I had
parakeets at the time so I brought their cage into the bathroom, too.
It was an inside bathroom, no outside walls and no windows. Pipes in
the walls are supposed to help provide cover, too.

Persia was hiding under the bed. I was fretting, how am I going to get
that damn cat in here? Right then she joined me and hunkered down
between the toilet and the tub and I shut the door. Good girl!

Fortunately the tornado didn't hit us directly. All I know is it
knocked out the power and the phone lines in a very large area (West TN,
North Mississippi) in some places for several weeks.

Lots of damage nearby and the office where I worked was closed. They
were running on emergency generators, critical things like the computer
room. I happened to know the break rooms with the ice machines were
connected to the emergency generators. So even though the office wasn't
open I knew I could go there and fill a cooler with ice and take it
home. Other people were desperately trying to find bags of ice at the
grocery stores, which were also mostly without anything but emergency power.

My cat Persia, bless her, figured getting out from under the bed and
joining me in the bathroom was a good idea. :)

OB Food: I cooked a lot of food on the trusty Weber kettle that week.
It took that long to get the electricity restored. Thankfully I knew
where to get ice so nothing spoiled and I had cast iron cookware.
Grandma's cast iron griddle worked a treat for cooking bacon & eggs. I
made cornmeal griddle cakes, too. Veggie beef soup in a big cast iron pot.

Jill

[Ed Pawlowski]

Should have mentioned. The TV incident was in CT. Not sure where the
actual strike hit but it came in from a light mounted on the side of the
detached garage and took out the entire circuit. Given the amount of
lightening here I took precautions. Thunderstorms in the area this
afternoon, so far 62 strikes and 1.3 inches of rain at 4:15PM.

[Ed Pawlowski]

I have one as good as my ears can handle. I do recommend a sound bar
for flat screen TVs though. Making them thin limits how good they can
make a speaker. No need to spend big bucks.

[graham]

Alberta recorded its first tornado the other day which was a bit early
in the season.

[Lucretia Borgia]

Wow didn't see that. Cold and wet today but sun and 28 tomorrow :)

[Mike Duffy]

On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 11:17:27 -0400, jmcquown wrote:

> [...] talk on the phone during a thunderstorm. Might get shocked!

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Dannion_Brinkley

[Leo]

On 2020 Jun 2, , itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote
(in article<4adeb777-b3ba-41f0...@googlegroups.com>):

> Oh gosh yes, I can remember my dad taking tubes out and putting a replacement
> in. Also, there was some sort of spray in a can that would clean the channel
> dial nob so it would turn smoothly. Rabbit ears of course but we never used
> aluminum foil on them as some people did. Ours always got good reception for
> the four channels we received.

I still have a Magnavox shortwave/AM radio with 33 1/3, 78 rpm turntable in
a nice console. No TV though. It’s worth less than a hundred bucks today
(I checked online), its tubes are dead and the wiring is atrocious by
today’s standards.
Still, I can’t remember my life without it, and it makes a nice looking
clock and picture stand. It’s a worthless family heirloom that I won’t
throw away.

leo

[Leo]

On 2020 Jun 2, , Ed Pawlowski wrote
(in article <LEEBG.103559$iB5....@fx06.iad>):

> Were you allowed to stay up at night to watch Milton Berle or Sid
> Ceaser? Friday night Fights sponsored by Gillette was a big deal too.
> That may be a bit before your time.

“Your Show of Shows”, “The Adventures of Hiram Holliday” and
“Captain Midnight” are what I remember from when TV came to my town. We
had one station, KRON from San Francisco.
“Captain Midnight” was sponsored by Ovaltine. You got a Captain
Midnight patch with every bottle of Ovaltine. The Captain Midnight patch
sort of looked like the peace symbol did in the future.

leo

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 10:46:47 PM UTC-5, Leo wrote:
>
> “Your Show of Shows”, “The Adventures of Hiram Holliday” and
> “Captain Midnight” are what I remember from when TV came to my town. We
> had one station, KRON from San Francisco.
> “Captain Midnight” was sponsored by Ovaltine. You got a Captain
> Midnight patch with every bottle of Ovaltine. The Captain Midnight patch
> sort of looked like the peace symbol did in the future.
>

> Leo
>
I've heard of Captain Midnight but I don't recall us getting that channel.
However, when I was a child we drank Ovaltine quite a bit. Several years
ago I got hankering for it and remember how much I liked it. I bought a
jar and that stuff is disgusting. Hahahahaaaaa

[Leo]

On 2020 Jun 4, , itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote
(in article<25408e5e-0c2d-4f6d...@googlegroups.com>):

> I've heard of Captain Midnight but I don't recall us getting that channel.
> However, when I was a child we drank Ovaltine quite a bit. Several years
> ago I got hankering for it and remember how much I liked it. I bought a
> jar and that stuff is disgusting. Hahahahaaaaa

I did that too after I grew up, and yep.

leo

[S Viemeister]

On 6/5/2020 5:31 AM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:

> I've heard of Captain Midnight but I don't recall us getting that channel.
> However, when I was a child we drank Ovaltine quite a bit. Several years
> ago I got hankering for it and remember how much I liked it. I bought a
> jar and that stuff is disgusting. Hahahahaaaaa
>

The US version has been changed, to be far too sweet. If you can get
hold of the European version, it's much more like the one you remember
from your childhood.
I did a side-by-side taste test of them, then tossed the super-sweet one.

[Taxed and Spent]

BOSCO!

[Dave Smith]

I know what you mean. I had a craving for it about 20 years ago. It was
not as good as I had remembered it. Another big disappointment was that
Italian soft drink Brio. I used to like it once in a while. I bought a
case of 24 cans and after 3 or 4 I lost all interest in there. I found
the cans years later, buy which time there were almost empty.

[Sheldon Martin]

I didn't like ovaltine. My favorite show was "The Magic
Cottage"...Bosco was the advertiser, a chocolate syrup that I haven't
seen since forever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Cottage_(TV_series)

[Sheldon Martin]

I liked Bosco was advertised on The Magic Cottage, hosted by Pat
Meikle. There were several interesting mail aways for Bosco labels,
like rocket launchers. Pat Meikle was my first crush, she was hot!

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 3:01:13 AM UTC-5, S Viemeister wrote:
>
> The US version has been changed, to be far too sweet. If you can get
> hold of the European version, it's much more like the one you remember
> from your childhood.
> I did a side-by-side taste test of them, then tossed the super-sweet one.
>

Maybe that's it, but it was just awful. Funny, though how I like those
malted milk balls but can't stand Ovaltine or a malted milkshake.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

I've heard of it but never tasted it and not even sure it's available in the
markets here. What does it taste like? Anything like Ovaltine?

[Hank Rogers]

Wasn't bosco mostly in the north?

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

That's my impression, too.

[Dave Smith]

Possibly. I used to see the commercials on the Buffalo TV stations. It
was not available on this side of the border.

[Taxed and Spent]

Is California "north"?

And they knew about it in NYC if you believe the Seinfeld episode.

[Hank Rogers]

I used to visit granny in detroit many years ago. They had
"fizzies" Little tablets that would fizz like an alka seltzer to
make a drink (a shitty drink, but OK for kids). Lots of other stuff
one never saw in the south.

Canadian quarters weren't worth as much as a real quarter, but most
stores let it slide, so canadian quarters bought as much in Detroit.

[Hank Rogers]

Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 6/5/2020 10:42 AM, Hank Rogers wrote:
>> itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
>>> On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 5:24:05 AM UTC-5, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 6/4/2020 9:31 PM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've heard of Captain Midnight but I don't recall us getting
>>>>> that channel.
>>>>> However, when I was a child we drank Ovaltine quite a bit.
>>>>> Several years
>>>>> ago I got hankering for it and remember how much I liked it.
>>>>> I bought a
>>>>> jar and that stuff is disgusting.  Hahahahaaaaa
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> BOSCO!
>>>>
>>> I've heard of it but never tasted it and not even sure it's
>>> available in the
>>> markets here.  What does it taste like?  Anything like Ovaltine?
>>>
>>
>> Wasn't bosco mostly in the north?
>>
>>
>
>
> Is California "north"?
>
> And they knew about it in NYC if you believe the Seinfeld episode.

Maybe it was kosher stuff, only sold to jews in nyc?

Popeye would know.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 6:23:28 PM UTC-5, Hank Rogers wrote:
>
> I used to visit granny in detroit many years ago. They had
> "fizzies" Little tablets that would fizz like an alka seltzer to
> make a drink (a shitty drink, but OK for kids). Lots of other stuff
> one never saw in the south.
>

We had fizzies too, and yes, it made a terrible drink. I remember the
root beer, it tasted like a root beer made with plain water. I didn't
waste my hard-earned nickel again.

>
> Canadian quarters weren't worth as much as a real quarter, but most
> stores let it slide, so canadian quarters bought as much in Detroit.
>

All I ever remember seeing was a Canadian dime. Matter of fact I got one
about a year or two ago back in some change from a store purchase. I passed
it along within a day or two to another store.