Bob Barker was much younger when I watched him on TV (Truth or Consequences, not The Price Is Right), and some of those toys belonged to a friend's younger brother or sister. I was too old to play with them. Now, the carousel whipping around at 100 mph, that I remember.
…you remember having worked with one of these:
For a short while during the 60s I had a four-track tape player. Basically the same as an eight-track, but the cassettes were smaller. They weren't particularly popular, as I recall, and didn't last long because cassette tapes like the ones that Commodore would play were the new hot medium for home and car audio.…you remember having worked with one of these:
The 4-track cassette was smaller because the tape roller wheel was in the player whereas with the 8-track cassette the roller wheel was internal in the cassette.
Sounds like the solitary confinement cell in a jail.
On the West Coast you can still find the occasional “California cooler,” which is a compartment built into an exterior wall, usually on the east or north side of a house. A door is on the interior, typically in a kitchen or pantry. On the exterior is either slats or holes in the siding, covered with mesh screens from the inside. Its purpose is to be a relatively cool place to keep fruits and vegetables. The advent of the home refrigerator pretty well spelled the end of the California cooler.
A cool 6-pack of beer in a grocery sack, for the road. The cooler takes on the name of the state or locale.
No, I’m not going to write that…
Not being a doc, I would recommend not to overrate it, at least as long as you couldn’t palpate anything knot-like in your arm pit or around.
