Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for January 16, 2015

Sounds like your college days stuff, Cosmo!

at flea markets and estate sales

When we were rotating back from Germany the MP they assigned to watch the packers & make sure we weren’t trying to smuggle anything illegal back to the states had never seen an 8-track! We were the same age. The 8-tracks were mine. I only had a few. In fact the only one I remember its name is “Pieces of Eight” by Styx.

Cosmo goes way back. I think the original back story was that he had a degree in dirigible engineering from Rutgers.

amen!

Well, kids, I do remember 8 tracks, but from college faculty days. Even owned a car with an 8-track built in. But one of my room mates in my student days had one of the best early stereo LP systems, with the demo LPs that let you hear a freight train go through the room.

Don’t forget a minifridge (or Coleman cooler, at least) for the beer. This IS college we’re talking aboout here.

And I still have a portable 8-track player with about 50 tapes that haven’t snapped on me when the program clicks from 2 to 3.

Wait! What about a CB radio? How do you expect your kid to communicate with everybody…

That ought to do it!!

I’m sending this to my kids! better let them know what’s ahead

The problem with old 8-tracks is that the splice connecting the end of the tape to the beginning that allows them to play continuously usually dries out and lets go resulting in a mess of crumpled tape.