Simply random stuff

[barfle]

I think I remember some Woolworth's stores having a listening booth.

I honestly can’t remember ever being in a Woolworth’s. We moved a lot when I was little, so maybe in Spokane or Toledo, but I was very young then, and the fog of time is very thick about those eras of my life.

 

[mandrix]

You've told us about your days of welding cast iron before, Boonie. If you decide to tell us ever again, please do so because I never get tired of hearing about it.

Sorry!

 

[Clement]

Sorry!

NO! Seriously–i'm with @ar surround : LOVE your stories of past and present . . . future, too!

 

[esimms86]

This looks awesome

Holy crap, that’s amazing!

 

[esimms86]

My forwarding address if I keep buying Blu Ray box sets at the current velocity.
Cape Disappointment - WA state
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Congrats on your new man cave!

 

[esimms86]

Wife and I are due for a new vehicle. We haven't had a car payment for 4 years. Ugh......
We love our Jeep Cherokee and are looking at a 2024. I suppose we'll get a good trade valud on our 2017, which has 90,000 miles and mint condition honestly. I also looked at a 2024 Dodge Durango RT Hemi. What a freak of nature. V8 with over 350 hp, with a $9500 discount. It's gray, and pretty nice. Tempting....

In New England 90,000 miles is practically a new car!

 

[esimms86]

Amen. I've noticed women's shorts are, uh, really short now. I guess I can live with it.
Though no one is going to be looking at me I wear shorts year round. I have two pairs of jeans. Well if I do get looks it's usually my long white beard. lol.

C’mon, we know that you’re really a sharp dressed man!

 

[esimms86]

I actually had second thoughts about the last 1/4 mile. There was a sign posted saying there was increased bear activity on the trail. Uh......yeah. I admit, it spooked me a bit.

How many cold brews had you had at that point?

 

[GOS]

How many cold brews had you had at that point?

None!

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

I just realized I never seem to actually get any COFFEE from Starbucks...

 

[ar surround]

For many of us who were Panasonic customers in the Plasma era....signs of life again

Good. Panasonic made great TV's. Both of our kids have theirs from when they bought their first HD TVs and they both still work. [Edit: The TVs and the kids. LOL]

 

[ar surround]

Sorry!

NO! Seriously–i'm with @ar surround : LOVE your stories of past and present . . . future, too!

Please, no apologies Boonie. If it were up to me, there would be a separate thread in the forum called, The Mandrix Guide To Cast Iron Welding (and other Tales From The Past.)

 

[ar surround]

So @mandrix , have you ever had to deal with welding techniques such as TIG root pass? How about metals with high nickel content such as Hastelloy C? Having worked in the process and power industries, we were always using exotic metals here and there which required that 100% of the welds be X-rayed.

I didn't work all that long in the nuclear industry where they had to X-ray the X-rayers and drug testing of anyone working on the sites was ubiquitous.

 

[cbmmm3]

NO! Seriously–i'm with @ar surround : LOVE your stories of past and present . . . future, too!

Agreed !! Love to hear your life experiences Boonie

 

[mandrix]

So @mandrix , have you ever had to deal with welding techniques such as TIG root pass? How about metals with high nickel content such as Hastelloy C? Having worked in the process and power industries, we were always using exotic metals here and there which required that 100% of the welds be X-rayed.

I didn't work all that long in the nuclear industry where they had to X-ray the X-rayers and drug testing of anyone working on the sites was ubiquitous.

Not really. This is a farming and timber industry area. So farm equipment, sawmills/mulch plants etc. Most of the TIG work I did was on aluminum, on 3/4 wheeler engines (M/C engines), some restaraunt equipment, etc., and MIG weld aluminum dump truck haulers with a spool gun.

Of course being a job shop there were a large variety of objects/materials I can't recall all of.
The one that dumbfounded me initially was a push mower body. I thought it was some kind of aluminum, turned out to be magnesium!

I welded out in field with the portable welder at the sawmills, welded aluminum irrigation pipe with a torch (real, real, real fun).

Since the 80's, the only thing I've welded were sub frame connectors (SFC's) on my Z28, and that was a while back.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

The Album Years Podcast (Tim & Steve) - 1972​

More from 1972 with Tim & Steve on "The Album Years Podcast"
*Soul, R&B etc.

 

[inspclouseau]

Another strike. Too close..

 

[J. PUPSTER]

More from 1972 with Tim & Steve on "The Album Years Podcast"
*Soul, R&B etc.

It's just amazing to me how smart and how much music knowledge these guys have, they are just brilliant!

I found the discussion of this Brazilian album interesting; but boy howdy the double LP is pricey (stereo.)

https://www.discogs.com/release/2643883-Milton-Nascimento-Lô-Borges-Clube-Da-Esquina

 

[mandrix]

Another strike. Too close..

I hear you. Here in Florida we get a lot of lightning. Takes out the power sometimes, other times shakes the house when strikes are close. Scary stuff sometimes.

 

[QuadEyes]

The first record store I was in was the Musicland store in the lower level of the Indian Springs Mall in KS in 1971, no listening booths.

The FYE store on 40 highway did have a few listening stations (headphones only), I never tried them.

Anyone listened to any songs or albums in these type of listening booths?


Kirk Bayne

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In 1967 at Comer's Record Nook in North Star Mall in San Antonio. "Have You Seen Her Face" by The Byrds. Great store that closed a couple of months later. They probably couldn't afford the rent.