I remember right before they put up the test pattern the station would play the National Anthem. Then the pattern would come up and a tone would sound.

 

Kate Smith would sing the National Anthem.

 

 

If you remember this you were probably a little thief!

 

 

 

 

Must be NYC.

 

It looks like New Jersey, probably a block over from where I live! LOL

 

LMAO, NOT NY, NY has orange type color tags (I believe throughout the whole state), AND NY has tags on both the front and rear.


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Of All the airlines, in All the airports, in All the world, Rick Blaine and Victor Laszlo chose TWA—-—owned and operated by Howard Hughes, the boss at RKO Studios.

 

Marilyn Monroe is on the tank (M60 eat your heart out !)

 

That's a great picture of Marylin Monroe during the Korean Conflict. However, that's an M26 Pershing Heavy Tank.
The M60 series wasn't designed until 1957 and went into service in 1959.

 

MARILYN MONROE 1954 Riding High Army Tank in Korea

 

 

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radar = radar, dammit i'm mad! = !dam m'i timmad (Non-caps makes it worse!) LOL


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!dam m'i timmad
Almost sounds Klingonese.

 

When this bad boy built up speed you either held on tight for dear life or were flying off resulting in scrapes and bruises!

 

The original "Wheel of Fortune"! You were fortunate if you got off of it without a concussion or bodily injury! LOL

 

It was fun to have someone, or multiple kids, be the "spinners" while the rest of us hung on. As it was spun faster the Centrifugal force increased. At some point, with the world whizzing around like a blur, I would bail out (or get sick and throw up). Just looking at that thing causes my PTSD to come back. The Merry-Go-Round was the place where boys became Men.