At 02:05 AM 8/27/99 EDT, you wrote: >Wy: Cacky, That was all stuff that came out after Television, when I was >younger all we had was the 13 week serial of Gene Autry and the Phantom >Empire on every Saturday before the great Tom Mix and Ken Maniord main >feature, with the news reel before any of it with a Mickey Duck cartoon.. The >only thing we had like television was where the mean folks would look in that >round thing, and could see outside the cave where they were hiding and had >their headquarters. Another Spring Chicken, Yes we had a radio we would >listen to, but had to make sure the batteries were charged before we run it >too much, or Dad got upset if we run the batteries down and he could not hear >H. V. Kaltenborn with the news. > >Ira> > IRA they may be spring chickens but that makes US OLD ROOSTERS dont it ? I can hardly Crow anymore! Do you remember" BIG - LITTLE " books before comic books came out? I learned to drive on a A_MODEL FORD and my first car was a 1936 plymouth coupe 2 tone RED & GRAY (talk about CLASS) my dad would not let me read BUCK ROGERS comics he said "because every one knew it was impossable for a plane to fly with out wings" what would he say today about space ships? My favorite show on our battary radio was " I love a mistery" ,one time I was alone after dark listening to it and a rat ran across the celing and I run to the neighbors and left the radio on and the battarys ran down ! boy did I catch it?gabbie