Nostalgia

[Mikado]

This thread is for things in your past, or a story about your past , something that brings a tear to the eye, or just a distant memory. It can be an old ad, old movie or an old car, or maybe something totally BEFORE your time like a Model-T Ford, w/e brings to mind the word.......Nostalgia!!!

The pic is the Magic Palace at the old Crystal Beach Park (about 45 mins from here).....there's condos there now

[Mikado]

When I was young, maybe 7 years old, i remember going to my first flea market and seeing what was to me a wonder! A stereoscope!!!! From that day on, I wanted one SO much, but, lets face it, back in 1968, $10 for a stereoscope and 50 cards seemed like a fortune to me! Well, last fall i decided to finally fulfill that childhood dream, only, now it cost me $90 for the viewer and $5-20 EACH for the cards!!!! Oh well, it may take me some years to get a large collection of the cards (I have about a dozen now), but, at least its a start!

[tv star collector]

My parents bought me a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder (it ran on a
transistor battery) back in the sixties. I still have it, but it doesn't work
anymore. I still have the reel-to-reel tapes (wonder if they would still play
if I could find a small reel-to-reel tape recorder anywhere?). It was my first
tape recorder (long before audio cassettes were invented).

[theshark8777]

Cedar Fair just closed Geauga Lake, an amusement park close to here, that I have been going to since I was a kid. It will be sad next year not to go.

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by tv star collector

My parents bought me a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder (it ran on a
transistor battery) back in the sixties. I still have it, but it doesn't work
anymore. I still have the reel-to-reel tapes (wonder if they would still play
if I could find a small reel-to-reel tape recorder anywhere?). It was my first
tape recorder (long before audio cassettes were invented).

Chances are the tapes have decomposed or demagnetised by now, but, you might look for a professional service that specialises in sound recording that might help you out...its worth a shot. I got a cassette recorder when i was 12, but, after 35 years, my oldest cassettes are barely audible.

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by theshark8777

Cedar Fair just closed Geauga Lake, an amusement park close to here, that I have been going to since I was a kid. It will be sad next year not to go.

I know how you feel Sharkey, going to Crystal Beach park (top of the page), was a yearly treat every summer from my young childhood until my early teens....it closed in the 80s.....I was one of the last people to walk on its grounds as a security guard, when it was being demolished. (I took some of the VERY last pics ever taken of the park!) < I'm going to look through my albums and add one or two of them

[Mikado]

I took these pics at sunrise about 6 am, one morning after working the night shift on security (After i smuggled in my camera). Crystal Beach as I knew it had been mainly built in the 1940s (Though there had been some amusements there since the late 1800s ) and was an Art-Deco wonderland in wood, sheet tin and paper mache. By the early 1980s the park was in dire straights and, eventually closed just around its 100th anniversary! You'll notice demolition had begun on the "Laff in the dark" ride, when i returned that night for my next shift, it was just a pile of rubble! The building on the bottom pic is the old ballroom where acts like Glenn Miller had once played; later it was a skating rink.

[Mikado]

I was given this pass, but, never used it

[tv star collector]

Originally Posted by Mikado

Chances are the tapes have decomposed or demagnetised by now, but, you might look for a professional service that specialises in sound recording that might help you out...its worth a shot. I got a cassette recorder when i was 12, but, after 35 years, my oldest cassettes are barely audible.

I still have my first audio cassette (from January 1974). It's the final episode
of ROOM 222, which I recorded off the TV set (with a microphone). It
doesn't sound great (never did) but is still listenable. That's nearly 34 years
ago (but still about 12 years newer than my reel-to-reel tapes). And I have
a 78 rpm phonograph record that my mother had made of her and me when
I was a toddler, which must be at least 55 years ago--and it still plays.
But then vinyl is much more permanent than magnetic tape, of course.

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by Mikado

This thread is for things in your past, or a story about your past , something that brings a tear to the eye, or just a distant memory. It can be an old ad, old movie or an old car, or maybe something totally BEFORE your time like a Model-T Ford, w/e brings to mind the word.......Nostalgia!!!

The pic is the Magic Palace at the old Crystal Beach Park (about 45 mins from here).....there's condos there now

I get the feeling they were trying to make that place look or feel like Disneyland.

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by tv star collector

I still have my first audio cassette (from January 1974). It's the final episode
of ROOM 222, which I recorded off the TV set (with a microphone). It
doesn't sound great (never did) but is still listenable. That's nearly 34 years
ago (but still about 12 years newer than my reel-to-reel tapes). And I have
a 78 rpm phonograph record that my mother had made of her and me when
I was a toddler, which must be at least 55 years ago--and it still plays.
But then vinyl is much more permanent than magnetic tape, of course.

OMG I used to do that too. I had a tape recorder and I used to record audio of my fave shows, like Happy Days. I would play the episode over and over again. It was fun. I used to imagine what it would be like to actually record a show and WATCH IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Sounds like my dreams came true.

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

I get the feeling they were trying to make that place look or feel like Disneyland.

More likely the other way round (CB came first)

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

OMG I used to do that too. I had a tape recorder and I used to record audio of my fave shows, like Happy Days. I would play the episode over and over again. It was fun. I used to imagine what it would be like to actually record a show and WATCH IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Sounds like my dreams came true.

I used to do it too, with Gilligans Island...I'd fill in any dead spots by describing any action "Gilligan walks to the hut, walks up to the Skipper" "Hey Skipper...." (Like a described video DVD for the seeing impaired) then id listen to the show after dark when i was supposed to be asleep!

[treky]

I also used to record shows off of the TV; back in the 70s; on a cassete recorder that I had at the time. I remember I used to record HAPPY DAYS, MASH, THAT'S MY MAMA, reruns of LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, THE JACK BENNY SHOW and DUSTYS TRAIL. Even episodes of THE TONIGHT SHOW....the ENTIRE 90 MINUTES!!! (back then it was 90 minutes long)
In fact, I have one recording of that where you can hear my brother yelling at me to turn the TV down, because he was in bed at the time.

[Mikado]

And all this time I thought I wasthe only one who put old TV shows on audio tape ...of course, once we got a VCR, that habit ended forever