[Qcwa] Things to remember

Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:15:10 -0600

Good Larry  ...My  wife and I still have cookware  that she  bought  in the 
50's with
S&H Green stamps...I  just had a guy at Belton Hamfest offer  me $50 for 
her tin
cake saver from the S&H  store...Boy was that hard to say no...I can hear 
it now!!!!!!
I still have an ART 13 that I use on 75 AM...Power supply is heavier then 
the xmtr....

de Bob W1PE

At 04:54 PM 12/13/03 -0600, Larry Saletzki wrote:
>Well I pale compared to a number of you but I do remember S&H Green stamps
>and also Top Value stamps that were yellow. If fact in about 1955 my parents
>got a Coleman Lantern and a Coleman Cook stove with Top Value stamps. We ate
>many a good breakfast off the stove. In fact I still have both today. I use
>the stove at least twice a year to help cook breakfast at the Princeton
>(Il.) hamfest and the Peoria (IL.) hamfest. Still tastes pretty darn good
>(has nothing to do with the cook!!) I have seen a number Ercoupes but never
>rode in one. However the last airplane the my wife, father-in-law and myself
>owned was a 1947 Stinson. Then there was the heavy stuff! Until about a
>month ago I owned a Caterpillar crawler. It was a 1933 Model 35. It was gas
>powered and started (with much effort with a large hand crank) It was a 485
>cubic 4 cylinder engine attached to 14,000 lbs of steel. It was a great to.
>Radio giving you fits just park this baby in front of it and if it didn't
>straighten up well the choice was yours!  Oh the best part! Living in Peoria
>but now out in the boonies near Peoria I was privileged to know both W9CI
>Erick Shaukhauser and W9RGH Russ Plank of RME. I ate many lunches with then
>and attended many Peoria Area Amateur Radio Club meetings with them. Great
>people. Unfortunately I was interested in RME but not smart enough to at the
>time learn all I could. I still kick myself for not learning more from these
>two gentleman. You could talk to them like anyone else on earth. I remember
>a couple of years out at Dayton when Eric was still able to attend. A couple
>of us would go talk to Eric waiting for the bus out front. We would make
>sure he had the needed transportation but then also remind him that we
>didn't want to read anything in the Dayton newspaper about W9CI being
>arrested for being rowdy.
>He would look at us and smile and say "I wish you could"! If anyone has
>people that are still around them like Eric and Russ. Treasure them because
>there are not many left!
>Enough from here but I also recognized a bunch of things mentioned so I
>proudly say I am up close to the rest of you!
>Happy Holidays to all! Please remember the folks around the world and in
>this country that continue to protect us!
>73 Larry WA9VRH
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob Wilder" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 4:07 PM
>Subject: [Qcwa] Things to remember
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> > I am just a youngster at 73 compared to some of the QCWA guys out there.
>But sure
> > brings back memories of days gone by.  Only been a ham since 1949.
> >
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Best 73's  Bob W1PE
Mesquite, TX 75149

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