If it could stay just one year technologically forever...

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by andy

I would love to take a few trips back to the 70's and 80's.

That is fascinating to hear for a 47-year-old like me. I cannot think of anything from the 70's or 80's I want that I don't still have. Oh, actually, I'd like to take some of today's money back and buy a bunch of Bay Area houses. That Hillsborough house I saw on a real estate office ad for $399,000 in about 1987 would be a good start, or the three-story Victorian in San Francisco for $290,000. Better yet, go back to the early 70's when those S.F. houses were "lousy" and cost about $50k...

[andy]

Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

That is fascinating to hear for a 47-year-old like me. I cannot think of anything from the 70's or 80's I want that I don't still have...

I meant that back in the 70's and 80's things like rare 50's color TVs and Fisher 500's were just old junk that most people wanted to get rid of. I know as a kid I passed up on lots of junk that would be worth thousands now.

[zenithfan1]

Originally Posted by andy

I meant that back in the 70's and 80's things like rare 50's color TVs and Fisher 500's were just old junk that most people wanted to get rid of. I know as a kid I passed up on lots of junk that would be worth thousands now.

ME too, sucks huh?

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by andy

I meant that back in the 70's and 80's things like rare 50's color TVs and Fisher 500's were just old junk that most people wanted to get rid of. I know as a kid I passed up on lots of junk that would be worth thousands now.

OK, I understand now, yes. If I had known better, in the store where I worked from March 1979 until January 1980, I could have bought, I think, about four of these 1954 GE color monitors, new in their original wooden crates:

http://earlytelevision.org/ge_4tm15.html

The bad thing is, I had already started collecting old TV sets then (the same store had an RCA 630TS in its back room that I still own), but I thought of color TV as "newer", and I was only interested in pre-1950 TV sets, so I didn't even bother with the GE monitors.

[compucat]

I would pick the early Seventies. Most TVs still had tubes, the Zeniths were at their peak in performance and all the sets I like from '40s Bakelite radios to Color roundies were readily available and parts could be obtained locally. AM radio was great to listen to and most people still knew what shortwave was. Most watches were still mechanical rather than quartz, music was good, TV programs were good. God I miss the Seventies. The two things I would really miss from this era are my cellphone and my laptop.