Objects you don't see much anymore

[adorshki]

HA! You barely ever saw those even when they were being offered.

Speaking of in-car accessories:

 

[Minnesota Flats]

 

[GuildedCage]

Drive-in movies! I miss'em. There are a few around because it just feels so right.

 

[GAD]

I bought one of those when we first got our house in the mid '90s. They still make them!

I lasted a week.

 

[Minnesota Flats]

 

[Minnesota Flats]

Drive-in movies! I miss'em. There are a few around because it just feels so right.

This is the one I used to take my girlfriends to when I was in high school:

Olympic Drive-In

A celebration of the historic legitimate theatres, grand movie palaces and neighborhood cinemas of the Los Angeles area.

losangelestheatres.blogspot.com

 

[adorshki]

This is the one I used to take my girlfriends to when I was in high school:

Olympic Drive-In

A celebration of the historic legitimate theatres, grand movie palaces and neighborhood cinemas of the Los Angeles area.

losangelestheatres.blogspot.com

Yeah, somehow this just don't cut it:

I mean, how can you fog up your windows with the top down?

 

[hearth_man]

Hey that was my first guitar tuner. I still have my A-440 tuning fork and still works like a charm!

 

[Guildedagain]

Yeah, somehow this just don't cut it:

I mean, how can you fog up your windows with the top down?

Now that we've sufficiently veered I can throw in a Drive-In story.

No, it's not about sneaking a carload of folks in the trunk ;[]

I saw Roadhouse at a Drive In, damn good show, with some great guitaring.

So I got a date with some gal, and took her to see it.

She got really weird during the movie, it was about her rugrat (boy) not interacting well will my rugrat* (girl), and at some point, I'd really had enough, and when she went to concessions in a big huff of door slamming, I left.

Judging by the catcalls as she walked up there, I figured she'd have no trouble scoring a ride, and I'd already seen it, so I booked.

Sometimes, that's the way dates end.

*Kids are great judges of character. I fell stupidly in love with some gal, and she agreed to go on date with me and kidling, and while we were waiting for dinner to arrive, the kid (jealous?) dumped the gal's icewater in her lap, and that was it.

 

[zulu]

 

[dwasifar]

I never knew Heathkit made stomp boxes. Was this any good?

 

[zulu]

I never knew Heathkit made stomp boxes. Was this any good?

I only had a few minutes to try it out while processing it into inventory at the pawn shop. It had a unique crunch at low gain to kind of " blatty" at high gain.

 

[adorshki]

Hey that was my first guitar tuner. I still have my A-440 tuning fork and still works like a charm!

I have two A's and an E.

 

[adorshki]

I never knew Heathkit made stomp boxes. Was this any good?

Their audio line was extremely high quality (maybe you already knew), still has a dedicated market on eBay for example.
I'd assume the same team designed the guitar accessory amp accessory line, but then again...(see below).

I used to sell 'em in the early '90's and even then component quality was extremely good. A LOT depended on build quality, since they were all "owner-built". (We were forbidden to actually build kits for customers due to liability issues, although we did local warranty work.)

They had at least one guitar amp in the '60's, I had a buddy with one and to my young ears it sounded extremely trebly, but I think it was copy of a Standell circuit. IIRC they even had a guitar, a private-label Silvertone.

 

[Ross]

I remember going to get school shoes late in the summer. You'd take off your shoes and sit in a chair while and the salesman would sit on one of those funny little stools with the slanted ramp on it. He'd put the Brannock device on the rubber mat on the ramp and you'd put your stockinged foot on it while he snugged all the adjusters against your foot. Then he'd go look in the back for the shoe's you'd chosen in the size indicated by Brannock device.

Many shoe shops also had X-ray machines, allowing you to see how the bones in your foot fit in the shoe.
Kids loved them!

 

[lungimsam]

This thread would be even more interesting if we kept it to pictures we took ourselves of the real item not just pictograbs.

 

[RBSinTo]

This thread would be even more interesting if we kept it to pictures we took ourselves of the real item not just pictograbs.

lungisam,
With respect, have you failed the grasp the concept of this topic?
RBSinTo

 

[tonepoet]

The FUJIFILM disposable cameras actually produced some great photos. I would toss one in a zip lock bag and put it in my backpack on hikes through the Yosemite backcountry. I thought the color and clarity were superior to Kodak's version. And they were so much lighter than carrying a traditional camera in your pack.

tonepoet
www.jackshiner.com

 

[tonepoet]

Building the analyzer yourself:

My Dad was big on Heathkit and DIY kits. In the 60s he built a reel to reel tape deck and AM/FM receiver. He and my brother put together the Heathkit Harmony electric guitar kit at the kitchen table.





It was his first electric guitar.

tonepoet
www.jackshiner.com

 

[tonepoet]

My wife and I still use a push lawnmower!!!

tonepoet
www.jackshiner.com