[Dixielandjazz] The Internet and DJML

[Don Kirkman]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:54:41 -0700, you wrote:

>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.  

Yeah, but did you send Ovaltine lid liners in to get your Little
Orphan Annie secret decoder?  Or remember the commercials for Congoin
and Postum?   We watched all of that stuff on our old Kennedy radio ca
1933.  And a little later we got to hear the King of Jazz, himself, on
Sunday afternoons (as I recall).

>> 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.
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>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
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Don Kirkman
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