1 Mar
2009
1 Mar
'09
5:38 p.m.
On 1 Mar 2009 at 10:33, Bob Bradlee wrote:
Yet, in the mid 60's the town dump was full of
them and they provided
great entertainment to the nerds of the day who knew when and how
to get in and be ignored at the dump.
We used to dispose of the old unlaminated TV CRTs by placing them in
a large metal trashcan, face down, and tapping the very end of the
neck with a hammer. If you were lucky, you knocked a tip off the
evacuation stem and the vacuum was relieved with a long hiss. If you
were unlucky, the thing imploded.
But yeah, I remember the kids in the alleyways using the tubes for
batting practice...
Cheers,
Chuck