Are you this old?

[CADplans]

When my brother graduated from high school, my father was trying to inspire him to work hard,,
Dad told my brother,,, " I earn $100 a week,, you will probably NEVER earn that much!!"

My brother ended up as a PhD department head at NASA,, then a professor at the University of Colorado,,

Hmmmmmmmmm,, I wonder if my brother ever got to $100,, per week??

 

[i7win7]

Old enough to remember dialing a phone number just to find out the time.

 

[BravoXray]

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WLS, home of the best DJs in mid-America in the '60s.
Larry Lujak is a legend.

 

[BravoXray]

I got my license in 1966, don't remember what gas was going for then, but I seem to think it was in the mid-ish 20s, and not really changing much for quite a few years. I do recall getting upset when it got into the high 30s when the Arab oil embargo hit in 1973.
I've heard of gas wars, but they didn't seem to be a thing around here. If they occurred, no one called them that.

I got my license in '66 also, and gas was in the low to mid 20s as there seemed to be a continual gas price war around the Goshen/Elkhart area.
Good thing it was cheap, when I got my '66 Impala SS396 in '68, I burned a lot of it cruising on the weekends.

 

[BravoXray]

We could pick up WLS into north Florida on a good night.

When we vacationed in Pompano Beach in the winter, I could sometimes pick up WLS on my transistor radio. Some of the local kids I met thought is was a great station.

 

[Alan W.]

Being on the operating table getting ready to have my appendix removed. Then having ether dripped onto my face covering to put me out.

 

[Citydude]

Being on the operating table getting ready to have my appendix removed. Then having ether dripped onto my face covering to put me out.

Umm, this is happening now???

 

[BravoXray]

Being on the operating table getting ready to have my appendix removed. Then having ether dripped onto my face covering to put me out.

Oh yeah, I still remember the ether when I had my tonsils removed in '57. NASTY stuff, gave me a really weird dream when I was out, part of which I still remember.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

When we vacationed in Pompano Beach in the winter, I could sometimes pick up WLS on my transistor radio. Some of the local kids I met thought is was a great station.

Wolfman Jack on XERB (XCRB?), the Mexican flamethrower. "The only DJ you can hear after 3." I didn't stay up that late until I went to college.

 

[two_bit_score]

I can recall the Houston Weather Eye.

The Houston Weather Eye Globe

October 17, 1955 the Texas National Bank building (the backside of the sign also promoted Conoco, who also held floors in the building) ...

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