Things you could order over 50 years ago that you can't order now !

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   / Things you could order over 50 years ago that you can't order now ! #391  
We had to install a sprinkler system in our industrial freezer at work to make insurance carrier happy. 120 x 120 x 30 ft high building kept at 10 below zero storing up to 2 million pounds of chicken. It was interesting how they designed it. The overhead sprinkler lines couldn’t be charged with water since it would freeze, so the lines were charged with nitrogen gas. A drop in the nitrogen gas pressure would trigger the water to then flow in. Seemed pretty complex.
That is a pretty typical setup these days, and not just in freezers. Keep water out of the pipes reduces or eliminates corrosion, and rust flaking off in the system, clogging nozzles.

Suprisingly enough, not available in this county for home designs. Go figure.

All the best,

Peter
 
   / Things you could order over 50 years ago that you can't order now ! #392  
Many unheated warehouses have dry line sprinkler systems. They are common anywhere a line might freeze.
 
   / Things you could order over 50 years ago that you can't order now ! #393  
...though my wife does miss "local" news...

Download the 'Haystack News' channel (available free on streaming platforms)...you can watch the "local" news from most TV markets...
 
   / Things you could order over 50 years ago that you can't order now ! #394  
Download the 'Haystack News' channel (available free on streaming platforms)...you can watch the "local" news from most TV markets...
I tried their web site, which had no info. Is there a list of available stations? Other local streaming platforms don't carry my locals. What about YouTube premium? I understand they have locals too.
 
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I tried their web site, which had no info. Is there a list of available stations? Other local streaming platforms don't carry my locals. What about YouTube premium? I understand they have locals too.
I never looked at their web site...I just downloaded the 'Haystack News' channel and chose my local area...
That was before I subscribed to YouTube TV...it's about $65/month but has a lot of content...it also has your local news based on your geo-local...(zip code usually)...also has all your local broadcast networks (ABC,NBC,CBS and PBS)...I think it includes about 80 or so cable channels...plus a lot of movies that are not on regular YouTube...
 
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Anyone remember Edmund Scientific? I ordered all the time. Once ordered a weather balloon. All I could picture as a kid was one day a moving van would show up, men unloading a big wooden crate...instead a week later Mom said a package arrived when I got home from school. It was like a small shoebox! I opened and it looked like a birth control device for King Kong.
So I went outside with Mom's Electrolux vacuum reversing hose onto exhaust and started blowing it up. After an hour or so the balloon was enormous! I finally decided time to tie off the end. Now what to do with it? I had to show it to my friend Don across the road which was a major highway...but I had to go down our 1/4 mile driveway. Luckily not too much wind but incredible thing to carry.
I finally got it up to the entrance on highway and people blowing horns and yelling at me.
Don happened to be in his yard when he looked over. That was about the time a wind gust blew it into a tree limb popping it. It wasn't a typical balloon pop, more of a WHOOSH! yanking it out of my hands.
At least he got to see it. It was worth the $8.95!
Reminds me of the wooden airplane kit I put together using a Cox model plane engine to power it. I get on my bike to head to the nearby high school baseball field for it’s maiden flight. A bicycle wreck ended that dream. 😢. Crunch.
 
   / Things you could order over 50 years ago that you can't order now ! #397  
M80s and cherry bombs, may have already been mentioned. They were powerful. M80s worked underwater because some kids in school would light & flush down commode.
My then to-be BIL made his own M80’s using the round cardboard tubes from pants coathangers, black power, and dynamite fuse. He later upsized the model using galvanized pipe. 🤣. Don’t think that would go over to well today. Long time ago.
 
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I tried their web site, which had no info. Is there a list of available stations? Other local streaming platforms don't carry my locals. What about YouTube premium? I understand they have locals too.
I have HULU and local stations are available. But StarLink satellite internet really screws with HULU as they can’t pinpoint my location via IP address sometimes. They think I am in Miami. 🤣. Not quite that deep in the southeast. Well Florida isn’t really the south anyway. 😄
 
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   / Things you could order over 50 years ago that you can't order now ! #399  
Download the 'Haystack News' channel (available free on streaming platforms)...you can watch the "local" news from most TV markets...
Yeah, we have that. Unfortunately, our preferred station wasn't one of the options.
 
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Yeah, we have that. Unfortunately, our preferred station wasn't one of the options.
You might keep checking...they are always adding new stations...also check the web site for the local station affiliate...see if they offer a streaming channel...generally if it's not on one of the mainstream streaming services it's because the TV station itself does not offer it itself to said services...
 
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