Are you this old?

[CalG]

$1.10 an hour, evening custodian at the Target . Overtime after 40. and I could work all I wanted.

Burned a lot of cardboard on Sunday evenings ;-)

 

[Jstpssng]

gas was 19.9 cents a gallon. and motor oil could be bought at the service stations from the racks of glass bottles with the spouts on. (The service station guy ALWAYS asked to check your oil!)

I pumped gas for a while after HS. My boss was always after me to check oil and to add a quart even if they didn't need it. It didn't take me long to realize that I needed to go back to school... and that was BEFORE I got into it with my boss one Saturday, for refusing to put a gas on a customer's employer's account for his personal car and his boat. (My boss was was right though... it really was none of my business.)

 

[BravoXray]

I remember WLS - 710 am radio - DJ Don Armstrong. Clear down to Joplin Missouri - came in every evening loud and clear. Loved that station as a kid.

WLS was at 890 on the AM dial, and I don't remember a Don Armstrong on it?

 

[k0ua]

I remember WLS - 710 am radio - DJ Don Armstrong. Clear down to Joplin Missouri - came in every evening loud and clear. Loved that station as a kid.

That was WHB. The jingle was WHB dial 71....

WLS was on 890 Khz. Their jingle was 89, W L S...

 

[k0ua]

When I was in college in El Paso in the 60’s, we would pick up a radio station from Del Rio Texas that played the best music but their programming could be all over the place. In reality their transmitter was in Mexico and who know how many watts they broadcast.

But my best memory was their ad for “ Genuine autographed pictures of Jesus Christ”. Hmmm…

250,000 watts.

XERF

Wolfman Jack worked as a disc jockey from 1964 to 1966 for the (then) 250,000 watt radio station XERF (1570 AM) in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, just across the river from Del Rio, Texas, which is among borders of Texas and Mexico.

 

[k0ua]

Here is some John Landecker from WLS on 890 back in 1972

 

[k0ua]

Here is a little WHB on 710 in Kansas City back in the day.

 

[k0ua]

Larry Lujack on WLS in 1976

 

[JasperFrank]

You could call up a radio station and request that they play a song.

 

[k0ua]

I tuned down to 890 WLS just now Jan 1st 1:46 in the morning 2022 and sadly WLS is a talk station now. Not nearly as much fun as the 60's and 70's

 

[ultrarunner]

Here's an oldie: have you ever seen a hypocaust? That was a basement furnace with a big octopus of 8" ducts that went to every room in the house and circulated air by convection - no furnace fan. It was deluxe in the days before electricity. It would burn about anything; wood, coal, my dad had a cousin with one. He had converted it to a sawdust burner because sawdust was free.

I have this in my home built in 1922 and it works flawlessly even when the power was out almost a week after the 1989 quake…

Freshman year in High School the gym teacher was also the lunch line cashier and I popped off it was taking too long and he said ok Smart A you do it… just a cash box, no register so all done in your head… that was the start of my 4 year cashier job and my brother took over when I graduated…

 

[ljjhouser]

That was WHB. The jingle was WHB dial 71....

WLS was on 890 Khz. Their jingle was 89, W L S...

AHh--- that is right. I guess I am getting old. WHB. Thanks.

 

[ljjhouser]

WLS was at 890 on the AM dial, and I don't remember a Don Armstrong on it?

I was wrong. I was thinking of WHB -

 

[Oaktree]

I remember WLS - 710 am radio - DJ Don Armstrong. Clear down to Joplin Missouri - came in every evening loud and clear. Loved that station as a kid.

Actually, WLS was (and still is) 890.

When I was in college in El Paso in the 60’s, we would pick up a radio station from Del Rio Texas that played the best music but their programming could be all over the place. In reality their transmitter was in Mexico and who know how many watts they broadcast.

But my best memory was their ad for “ Genuine autographed pictures of Jesus Christ”. Hmmm…

There were several so-called "border blasters" located just over the border in Mexico. Supposedly, they ran a half million Watts, though the reality was less than half that. Still a potent signal to be sure, blanketed most of the midwest and west.
I'd read about them in Popular Communications magazine when I was a teenager, but was never able to hear any of them here in New England, though I was able to pick up a couple Texas stations.

 

[Jstpssng]

You could call up a radio station and request that they play a song.

We still can.

 

[Jstpssng]

Actually, WLS was (and still is) 890.

There were several so-called "border blasters" located just over the border in Mexico. Supposedly, they ran a half million Watts, though the reality was less than half that. Still a potent signal to be sure, blanketed most of the midwest and west.
I'd read about them in Popular Communications magazine when I was a teenager, but was never able to hear any of them here in New England, though I was able to pick up a couple Texas stations.

That must have been where the last DJ went

Well he got him a station down in Mexico
And sometimes it will kinda come in

 

[Pixguy]

I still have to listen to the DJ on paid SiriusXM 70's station. I yell at him to stop talking over the intro and shut up and play the music! Boy, am I grumpy.

 

[Jstpssng]

I still have to listen to the DJ on paid SiriusXM 70's station. I yell at him to stop talking over the intro and shut up and play the music! Boy, am I grumpy.

I got rid of Sirius in a large part because they talk too much. SOP seems to be to play 2 songs, then a commercial- Excuse me, promo.
That, and I almost got hit with a late fee because I didn't realize my year's prescription had run out, so didn't bother logging on to check my CC statement because I knew it had a zero balance.

I also have gotten rid of that card because they won't send me paper statements.

 

[npalen]

I still run a linear equation when I am handling money. If I want to pull money from my retirement account, and know it will be taxed in two different brackets, how much do I have to withdraw for the purchase and tax bill, and how much is it going to cost me in lost earnings? One simple equation, two minutes. Algebra was trivial. Deriving trig identities was tougher.

Kind of like a picture or it didn't happen. We need to see the equation.

 

[npalen]

KOMA Oklahoma City! Seems like it was 1520 on the dial. Does that even sound right?

Edit: The 25 cent bounty on jackrabbits back in the early 60's Kansas. They were very plentiful that winter.