Nostalgia

[Kulindahr]

Ours held gum.

 

[Kahaih]

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Ours held gum.

You wouldn't have to be more than ten or fifteen years old.

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[Kulindahr]

You wouldn't have to be more than ten or fifteen years old.

I haven't seen one of those since at least 1985.

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[smokeshadow]

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Ours held gum.

the old, public viewing autiitorium in Houston's Johnson Space Center had these on the back of every other chair. This was where the press corp and families of tha astronauts and other interested parties could watch the computer displays showing the extent of the orbiting space capsules. They're difficult to see in this image; but, those red chairs had ashtrays

 

[EddMarkStarr]

There were television shows in the 70's that I never watched - one of them was "Baretta", starring Robert Blake.
All the guys in high school were crazy over Baretta, but I wanted nothing to do with the show.

Then the Baretta theme, sung by Sammy Davis Jr., was released as a radio length recording and I had to admit - the music was cool.

 

[Kahaih]

I haven't seen one of those since at least 1985.

Ask Google to refresh your memory.

 

[Thad1527]

I didn't understand why Baretta's theme involved the sparrow. That bird was clearly a cockatoo.

 

[Kulindahr]

Ask Google to refresh your memory.

Google wasn't around to see what I saw.

 

[Kulindahr]

That was a weekly ritual: make sure your shoes are shined so you look good in school!

 

[Kulindahr]

I also remember putting more than one person on each end!

 

[smokeshadow]

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That was a weekly ritual: make sure your shoes are shined so you look good in school!

the real question is how old school do you have to be to still have your shoe polish kit? Mine is similar to this one; but, doesn't have any text on the wood sides nor does it have a manufacturer placque anywhere on it

 

[me203]

That was a weekly ritual: make sure your shoes are shined so you look good in school!

I don't remember "weekly ritual"--but I do remember my father having this and related supplies. Appropriately enough, it was all stored in an old shoe box. He'd polish shoes every so often. I can't remember for sure, but I think my parents mostly wore more casual shoes when I was growing up.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

The picture above is the "Thetan", an alien from The Outer Limits, 1963.

I was terrified as a child, but fascinated as a teenager when I found out the identity of man inside the monster suit.
Janos Prohaska was the man who made monster and animal costumes come to life throughout the 1960's.


Janos became famous as the "Cookie Bear" on Comedy/Variety Shows - (before the Cookie Monster on Sesame Street)

 

[smokeshadow]

^^Prohaska was also the actor inside Star Trek's Horta alien. IIRC, he crawled around the Trek stage inside a rough costume similar to the Horta; but, not planned on being used. The writers and director liked the idea that they created the episode "Devil in the Dark" as a showcase for Prohaska

 

[EddMarkStarr]

^^Prohaska was also the actor inside Star Trek's Horta alien. IIRC, he crawled around the Trek stage inside a rough costume similar to the Horta; but, not planned on being used. The writers and director liked the idea that they created the episode "Devil in the Dark" as a showcase for Prohaska

Absolutely!

Janos Prohaska found his talents in demand on The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and plenty of other TV shows as well as movies.

Here's a clip from the final episode of The Outer Limits from January 1965. That's Janos in the creature costume!

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[pigface]

Tellys of that era are worth nothing to collectors now. It is too difficult to get a watchable picture, the convergence will have drifted so far that the colours will be horribly wrong. Setting the convergence on these is like tuning a piano, those engineers who could do it are either retired or dead. Those tubes ran at such a high voltage that working in the back of them gave you a dose of life-shortening Xrays.
The tellys we collect are black and white from an earlier time, easier and safer to repair. They can be made to show pictures as good as new, and the films we watch are in black and white anyway.
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Colour picture tubes can and still are being restored. There is a company in the Netherlands that re-guns them.
The x-ray risk is from the ht rectifier not the picture tube. They would have been shielded at the factory but lazy service technicians often took the screen off and never replaced it during a repair. In later colour sets this was a solid state rectifier so no x-ray risk.
I can converge a delta gun tube, and I'm not dead, yet. But fully self-converged tubes with no purity or convergence adjustments started coming out in the early 80s.

 

[pigface]

Have you looked at them lately? I went through my dad’s slides from the 70’s to transfer them to digital and most of them had degraded to a point you couldn’t see them

I have slides from the 60s and 70s that are still vibrant. It depends on the film brand - some didn't last.
And you can hold them up to the light to see what's on them - in 60 years time, what digitally stored images will still be usable, or machinery to view them?