Testor's glue for building plastic
models.
Eveready batteries - its logo a
black cat with nine lives.
TVs back then had four knobs below
the screen to adjust your contrast, brightness, vertical and horizontal hold,
and rabbit ears. You had a volume/on-off switch and a channel changer
which had numbers from one to twelve. Whiz Bang Wonders.
Phone exchanges started using a
system of letters, names and numbers starting in 1918. Wichita Falls,
Texas became the first American city to initiate all-number calling (ANC) in
January, 1958.
Teri Pall invented the first
cordless phone in 1965.
The emergency number was set aside
for use nationwide by AT&T in 1968.
Willis Carrier, the father of air
conditioning, was granted a patent for his "apparatus for treating
air" in 1906.
In 1955, William J. Levitt, one of
America's leading homebuilders, predicted that air conditioning would
become a basic home feature.
By 1965, 10 percent of American homes were air conditioned; 30
years alter the ratio was up to 75 percent. Whiz Bang Wonders 2005.
Permanent Press, also called
"durable press" came out in the early 1960's after its patent got
approved in 1961.
I did go to the University of Texas
where I brought four items outside of my clothes. An AM-FM clock
radio, a study lamp, an umbrella given to me as a graduation gift and an iron
(with a can of spray starch!).
We would attach baseball playing
cards with clothes pins to make a deep-throated sound when the card hit
your bicycle spokes while peddling. I don't know how any Mickey Mantle
rookie baseball cards were sacrificed to give up the proper sound.
Whenever Dan Lewis and I got
together, imaginations began to fly. We created an imaginary fur-bearing
vegetable we called a Purter (P-U-R-T-E-R). You could harvest
"fur" in straight lines out in a field. We almost got ball
caps at the State Fair one year which read "I'd Rather be Purter
Farming."
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