OMG.... I shouldn't do that at 4am in the morning. I just saw my typo and grammar disaster zone... Ugh..
So anyway, like the big machine, the upright thing, Dad doesn't own one of those, just the small one in the portable wooden box. He had all sorts of big clunky things like that and he drove his big, ugly black hearse looking thing for his TV repair biz. It was actually scary looking, I didn't like it and I was scared of it. I thought it looked just like "a dead people truck".. That's what I called it. I think it was something from the 40's, I have no idea exactly what.
Oh, I remember too, we had a green 1950's Stuedabaker (sp?). I remember it because Mom and I were in a wreck in it when I was little. Someone hit us and totaled it out. We were totally unhurt. As I recall, it didn't have seatbelts and the air conditioner ran on ice cubes. No, really. There was a thing you filled with ice cubes to blow cool air. It was good for about 10 minutes IF you put your face right in front of it.
Not very useful on the SE Texas Gulf coast in the middle of summer.
Ha! OMG... It would get so hot here. We would walk everywhere barefoot, even on the concrete and we would pop asphalt bubbles with our bare toes, the stuff would get hot and bubble up real big. For some reason it didn't bother us at all. But Mom would get really mad cause the stuff will NOT come off your feet. Except in the house. On the carpet.
Speaking of antiques.. I am so into retro stuff. I love to wear and live retro. As much as I can afford to at least. If the opportunity ever arises for me to move away from here to a better place I want to do the new place full 100% retro.
I especially like oddball things from the past, like I would LOVE to have a few of these TV's.
I could run I Love Lucy on them, Alfred Hitchcock, etc..
Now that would be fun!
THIS would be my ideal living room..
( Just replace the brunette with a red head...
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( Oh and the kids, all grown up and moved out..
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