[Dixielandjazz] The Internet and DJML

[Marek Boym]

> We also only had one at the time and it was in an oversized wooden cabinet,
> with more knobs than anyone ever knew what to do with.

With their sizes, there was hardly room for more!
I still fondly remember the days in the mid-1950's, when I used to
listen to the VoA, both the popular hour and the jazz hour over the
disturbances broadcast by the communist authorities to block western
radio stations!  Even when they stopped, reception on short waves was
not all that great.  I attribute my love for the swing bands, BG in
particular, to their coming through better due to sheer numbers!  Solo
piano was hardly listenable.
Cheers

>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
>
>> I was just sitting here reading the various posts on DJML and all of a
>> sudden it hit me, what a great List this is.
>>
>> I just read 4-posts in a row on the same subject, They were from Australia,
>> TX, UK and Spain.
>>
>> Sort of amazing when you think of it, especially when I look back to the
>> 40s as a kid and we had one radio in the house...
>>
>> --Bob
>>
>>
>>
>> --Bob Ringwald
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>> An Irish Man is sitting in the pub with his wife and he says, "I love you."
>> She asks, "Is that you or the beer talking?"
>> He replies, "It's me talking to the beer."
>>
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