You know you're getting old when...

[DanHoo]

When your new mustang convertible looks like this...

 

[Mark Silver]

 

[Harland Pattonese]

When you look in the mirror and you say, “dad?”

 

[Joan]

When you look in the mirror and you say, “dad?”

or you look in the mirror and scream!!!!!

 

[John_NJ]

I was driving home from work yesterday and saw a really old tv set that someone had put on the curb.

It brought back memories of my father.

I remember him removing the vacuum tubes from our tv one by one, writing down the number and location of the tube on a piece of paper, and going with him to the local store and testing them on a tube tester.

Every tube tested to find the bad one(s) and buying new tubes.

Back home, replacing the tubes, turning the tv and the look of satisfaction when the efforts were successful.

Just thought I would share this memory here.

 

[timothy]

Walgreens had one and the replacement tubes were in the drawers below.

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

Walgreens had one and the replacement tubes were in the drawers below.
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There was one in the liquor store where I worked waaaaayyyyy back when!

 

[JKalchik]

Walgreens had one and the replacement tubes were in the drawers below.

I remember one of those tube testers in the Giantway when I was a kid.

 

[timothy]

There was one in the liquor store where I worked waaaaayyyyy back when!

Funny, Walgreens was the liquor store way back when. Only place open on holidays and late night.

 

[Mark Silver]

Funny, Walgreens was the liquor store way back when. Only place open on holidays and late night.

White Front is where I rode my bike to get tubes tested. The machine was right next to dry cleaners inside the store.

 

[Bob Bailey]

I was driving home from work yesterday and saw a really old tv set that someone had put on the curb.

It brought back memories of my father.

I remember him removing the vacuum tubes from our tv one by one, writing down the number and location of the tube on a piece of paper, and going with him to the local store and testing them on a tube tester.

Every tube tested to find the bad one(s) and buying new tubes.

Back home, replacing the tubes, turning the tv and the look of satisfaction when the efforts were successful.

Just thought I would share this memory here.

Remember it well. Dad would send me to the store to test them.

 

[Keith Jenkins]

Not just TV's. I recall taking the tubes out of relatives' "table radios", taking them all to the local convenience store or drug store to test them, and buying replacements for the bad tubes.

 

[LMichaels]

Remember it well. Dad would send me to the store to test them.

Same here. Convenience store on the local corner. Did a lot of tube testing in the day

 

[timothy]

Big money for those tubes today.

 

[LMichaels]

 

[Mark Silver]

My favorite childhood memories.

 

[JKalchik]

My favorite childhood memories.
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Some of Hanna-Barbera's finest. Is it wrong that I can name nearly every character up there?

 

[DuaneMac]

Some of Hanna-Barbera's finest. Is it wrong that I can name nearly every character up there?

I was thinking the same thing! I still watch cartoons once in a while on Saturday mornings on MeTv

 

[Joan]

DH got most of them also, and he watches MeTv also

 

[JKalchik]

I managed to score the original Jonny Quest episodes.