Dearborn, MI
Spent way too much time watching M*A*S*H, Happy Days (never knew the Nip-It in Arnold’s wasn’t correct for the show’s 50s setting), All in the Family, Laugh-In, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family ....
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Quoted from jrpinball:They were everywhere! By the end of the decade, I thought I'd never see another one. Who woulda thunk it?
At least they ended up in basements where we could get em cheap years later!
Quoted from Jumping-Box:I still hear my dad yelling at me about changing the channels too fast. But our Sony Trinitron lasted forever.[quoted image]
Once as a kid when I was sick in the 70s I cut a slot in the end of a broom handle, put a small B&W TV on a chair near the foot of my bed, and used that slick “remote” to turn the channels without getting out of bed. That was livin’!
Remember the CB craze? Just about everyone had that extra antenna on the car, usually either attached to the rear bumper, clamped on above a window, or on a magnetic base, often with a wire running into the trunk. Part of the fun of a road trip was listening to drivers passing you the other way telling you what was “over their shoulder” for your trip, warning about “smokies taking pictures,” and telling you their “20”.
One of the best Christmas presents I got in the 70s as a teen was a full-power CB in a vinyl case with a battery pack that I loaded with Ni-Cads for recharging. I thought it was the coolest thing ever to carry that around or hold it while riding my bike.
That also reminds me of those car horns people installed that would play a short electronic tune. I think the first part of “Dixie” was one of the popular options.
Quoted from Silverballer:Your real close to Mr. Microphone territory. New from Ronco.
Wow, does Ronco ever bring back a flood of memories. I think Veg-O-Matic and Pocket Fisherman came out in the 60s, but Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler and Mr. Microphone may have been from the 70s.
Quoted from Dent00:I joined the local HAM radio club around that time. Well before cell phones. The club had a 2 Meter radio repeater connected to a phone line near the center of my city with a tall antenna. If you had a 2M radio in your car, you could patch to that repeater and make a phone call from your car. Of course, everyone on 2M radio could hear you, but no one cared. It was used mainly for emergency communication, but some just played with it some to make a call from their car, because they could. The club paid the phone bill and no one even considered calling long distance.
It was a real treat to talk to someone not within earshot and while not connected to the corded phone. Maybe one day people will be able to do that without a CB or HAM radio... Nah, that’s only for science fiction.
Quoted from o-din:70s had some good cars.
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Even AMC, the Chicago Coin of automakers, made a nice muscle car.
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Looks like we’ve got a convoy!
I can only think of 2 pins offhand spawned by the 70s CB craze: Bally Night Rider, and that highly-sought after 
Wonder Wizard CB Charlie.
Quoted from girloveswaffles:1973 is asking if O-Din ever listened to music on one of these:
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I just found this in a thrift store today for $0.95 . It seems like it might be a "Tandy" thing to have.
But where’s the USB port?
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