Pickles by Brian Crane for August 11, 2012

“Watch radio” he says? I think Earl meant in order to see where the dial was going. Next he’d be saying the first time wearing hearing aids in order to hear the TV.

“Ah remember back in the daze when we only had a kerosene-powered radio….We usta get our lawn cheers and go sit down on the turnpike an’ watch the car go by…”

“Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of man…?”

Well, didn’t grow up with these radio shows, but I now get Radio Classics on SiriusXM. I much prefer the comedies, like Burns and Allen & Fibber McGee & Molly to the mysteries & westerns. There aren’t enough comedies for my liking.

I loved listening to “Inner Sanctum” and hearing that creaking door. I also liked “I love a mystery”.

And that kid needs to go to a proper barber. His hair looks like a hat.

The days when we were forced to use our imagination. But now nothing is left to the imagination. Grose.

I remember when I was a little kid getting in trouble for taking a radio apart. I was looking inside trying to find the little people who were talking. They had to be hiding behind those tubes. I was sure.

Jack Benny, Burns an Allen, Amos and Andy,

Old radios are more interesting to look at.

I also remember how important the radio was when I was just a little kid during WW2. It was a piece of furniture as tall as me and when the adults told me to go turn it on so they could hear the wartime news, I would cry. I didn’t want to do it. I knew war was a bad thing, but I didn’t understand what it was all about…just that it frightened me. Nothing changes…war is still a bad and frightening thing.

Yes… It does, Nelson.

Did he have a gramophone also?

They are pretty cool.

xxx

A friend of mine used to refurbish old radios to make extra

money. Some of the old radios were very ornate, and, when

you turned off the lights, could light up a room.Zenith made

a model that had a top lid that you could open up for easy

tube access.It had 6 or 7 glowing tubes that would bathe

the room with a pleasing blue light.RCA’s and Zeniths had

huge glowing station dials…“Firesign Theater” was a good

late night choice to listen too..‘Hello Seeker ! Now don’t

feel alone here in the new age, because there’s a seeker

born every minute !

This bulletin just in from Grover’s Mill…..