[Dixielandjazz] The Internet and DJML

[Robert Ringwald]

Harry Callaghan wrote in part:

> When the TV series "The Waltons" was running, I remember people commenting
> "That sure looked dumb, the family sitting around in the evening, looking at
> that big radio as if it was a television when there was really nothing to
> see".
> 
> But, fact of the matter is that's exactly what people usta do back then.
> 


Yup, we all used to do that.  



> I have especially fond memories of radio because I can remember when other
> kids and myself would lie on our livinig room floor in the late afternoon,
> listening to the likes of "Superman", "Dick Tracy", "Hap Harrigan", "Sky
> King", "Captain Midnight" and of course, "Jack Armstrong, the All-American
> Boy" which featured the Ameche brothers, Don and Jim.
> 
> As these mostly 15-minute programs were being heard, each one of us could
> conjure up our own vision of how the action was taking place.
> 
> Kids don't have that today, what with TV, the PC and video games, nothing is
> left to the imagination.
> 
> And while a lot of educational material is available on the internet, they
> spend too much of their time sitting in front of a PC.
> 
> My daughter was only last week lamenting the fact that my 10-year old
> grandson doesn't know about what it was like back then.  Kids aren't outside
> playing cowboys and indians anymore.or building huts,like we usta do.
> 
> See what you stirred up here, Mr. Ringwald....well, you've only got yourself
> to blame.



About  ten years ago when my grandson was 12, he wanted to use the phone in our kitchen.  It is an antique pay phone with a rotary dial.  

He picked up the receiver and got a funny look on his face.  He had no idea how to dial with a rotary dial phone.  

--Bob Ringwald