1969 Delco 8 track AM Radio

[Sandy G]

"Slip 'n' slide w/Powerglide. When my parents were 1st married they were in the Army, he was in the infantry & she worked in a testing lab. She had one of the 1st test batches of Silly Putty-the manufacturer sent it to the army thinking they MIGHT figger out how to use it, but I don't think they ever did. It was thought it might be useful as stopping bullets, but it would run out of any fabric they used, & the damn stuff would shatter like glass when shot. They kept a little glass of it in their medicine cabinet for years. They had a '51 Chevy w/Powerglide, daddy said it absolutely would not slide on wet/icy pavement at all Mama learned how to drive in it, She got busted for speeding thru the enlisted men's barracks area-she was going a blazing 19 MPH & the speed limit was 17 MPH. The JAG was a friend of my dad's & Henry told him to read her the riot act, which he did & Winifred thought she was gonna be shot... She was a little woman & kinda gullible & my dad wasn't above picking on her a bit.. Neither was I. I grew big early on, by the time I was 10, 11, I could pick her up, plant her on my hip & tromp thru the house-and she'd be squalling blue bloody murder all the while. I'd look down at her, grin & go "Aww, Winnifred, HUSH !" That would set her off even further. She's been gone 10 years now, what I wouldn't give to pick her up & have her back for just 5 minutes now....