[bre's dad]

I can't argue with much posted here. I'm glad to finally find others who share my feelings... I remember when my dad would have to work on an old RCA console TV we had in the mid 70's. He got it when he worked for FCA in the 60's... even had the new fangled sonic clicker remote that rarely worked. It caught fire in our living room and was shortly replaced with a zeinith console, which was replaced with another RCA color track around '83. I was wondering why it had a calculator on the front of it and how you changed the channel. Dad is retiring at the end of the year and went out and bought a 42" Hitachi plasma screen. Mom still screams wanting the old Zeinith back...

I picked up an old 1949 Arvin floor tv from a friend awhile back. It doesn't work and is awaiting for someone to redo it (I don't know what I'm doing). I went to alocal tv repair shop and told them what I had. The guy, though somewhat of an ass, smiled and said he hadn't worked on anything with tubes for about 10 years... said "either people throw 'em out for foreign crap or they'll run another 30 years and he'll be dead before they need rebuilt again." He then showed me his small collection, including an original betamax that was the size of a honda.

I have always had an afinity for the old and archaic. I remember as a kid sitting by (or on when mom wasn't around) the old Maganavox and listening to records. Damn that thing sounded good. Over the weekend, I couldn't help but stop at a yard sale a few blocks over and look at an old Arvin console stereo. The lady said her mom brought it home when she worked at the Arvin factory in town (what once built great electronics equipment now makes little screws...) Well it is now sitting in our basement. Its solid state and needs a lot ot TLC (very scratchy controls, t-table makes no sounds), but the fm sounds good. My 4 year old looked at it before it was opened and wanted to turn it on and dance to it... really cool she knew what it was before anyone told her. Perhaps there is hope? Well, we fired it up and she danced around like a goof ball with her sister, reminding me when I was that age and did the same thing...