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<blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1098049" data-attributes="member: 17953"><p>Since I'm pushing 86 and we didn't have a TV at home until the mid to late 50s, I had radio shows that I constantly listened to during the evenings and on weekends. Being raised on a farm, I'd have the barn radio on with shows whenever I was out there working and had a radio in my bedroom. Outside of school itself, it was baseball, basketball, and football in school, listening to the radio, and reading. One year, in grade school, I think I did something like 80 or 90 book reports. I thought nothing of reading a book in a day, maybe two.</p><p></p><p>To be candid, we weren't rich, and I didn't have transportation to get out and about until I turned 16, and had a $50 car, believe it or not. I bought it with money I saved by working parttime for several farmers in the area baling hay one summer. At about $4 to $5 a day doing that work, it was hard earned cash. Once I got the car, I found side work on free time when it wasn't sports season and saved it for gas and insurance money. </p><p></p><p>My radio listening really started when I was very young. On Sunday morning, before we moved to the farm (I think it started when I was 4) I'd take the funnies from the newspaper and sit by the radio where they read them with sound effects, making what was on those pages come to life. By the time I reached first grade I could read and print words and put together sentences on my own. I had to learn cursive because that's not what was in the funnies. It was all block letters. </p><p></p><p>My favorites in the beginning were The Phantom and Terry & The Pirates. Both were fighting Nazis constantly. Those were the days when people had imagination. We didn't have to see a movie, or view something in detail to see it in our mind's eye.</p><p></p><p>You won't find too much I don't remember, including Big John & Sparky, which my little brother enjoyed listening to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voyageur, post: 1098049, member: 17953"] Since I'm pushing 86 and we didn't have a TV at home until the mid to late 50s, I had radio shows that I constantly listened to during the evenings and on weekends. Being raised on a farm, I'd have the barn radio on with shows whenever I was out there working and had a radio in my bedroom. Outside of school itself, it was baseball, basketball, and football in school, listening to the radio, and reading. One year, in grade school, I think I did something like 80 or 90 book reports. I thought nothing of reading a book in a day, maybe two. To be candid, we weren't rich, and I didn't have transportation to get out and about until I turned 16, and had a $50 car, believe it or not. I bought it with money I saved by working parttime for several farmers in the area baling hay one summer. At about $4 to $5 a day doing that work, it was hard earned cash. Once I got the car, I found side work on free time when it wasn't sports season and saved it for gas and insurance money. My radio listening really started when I was very young. On Sunday morning, before we moved to the farm (I think it started when I was 4) I'd take the funnies from the newspaper and sit by the radio where they read them with sound effects, making what was on those pages come to life. By the time I reached first grade I could read and print words and put together sentences on my own. I had to learn cursive because that's not what was in the funnies. It was all block letters. My favorites in the beginning were The Phantom and Terry & The Pirates. Both were fighting Nazis constantly. Those were the days when people had imagination. We didn't have to see a movie, or view something in detail to see it in our mind's eye. You won't find too much I don't remember, including Big John & Sparky, which my little brother enjoyed listening to. [/QUOTE]
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