Greetings From Alabama!
Tinkering comes naturally. Grandpa was a farmer, carpenter, and blacksmith. Dad started out that way, but quickly moved into the world of sound. He formed a successful gospel singing group, and a year before I arrived in 1951 he became a disc jockey. As early as 4 years old I was yelling and screaming to accompany him on his early morning stints at the station. On Saturday mornings he did "Old Uncle Jim's Story Time," and I was often his guest.
The knobs, flashing lights, and bouncing needles fascinated me. By age 11 I convinced the old man to give me 2 hours every Saturday morning to play music. By age 14 I became serious about journalism because of all the madness going on in Montgomery and the rest of the South at that time. Our little station was firebombed and vandalized several times during the late 1950's and mid-1960's.
When I arrived in Boston in 1969 to attend college the race wars were still going on, and I landed a part-time job as a producer for Red Sox baseball at a major radio station. About a year later, they promoted me to reporter, and I was right back in the wars; a judge's school desgregation order had set the town afire.
When I wasn't dodging bricks I was cooling my heels with members of the station's engineering staff; guys who were building their own tube amps and 25" Heathkit color televisions.
Sadly, I never had time to do those things, but I always wanted to. So, after a 10 year run in New York at the CBS Radio Network, I folded my tent and made it back South in 1994. I assembled a very nice stereo set-up, and the tinkering began.
I still freelance as a writer/reporter, and that often ends up being more time consuming than a so-called fulltime job. But, I'm determined to begin work soon on an A75...and I'll be calling pn you guys to lend a hand.
Thanks for listening.
Sincerely,
Gardenmann
Tinkering comes naturally. Grandpa was a farmer, carpenter, and blacksmith. Dad started out that way, but quickly moved into the world of sound. He formed a successful gospel singing group, and a year before I arrived in 1951 he became a disc jockey. As early as 4 years old I was yelling and screaming to accompany him on his early morning stints at the station. On Saturday mornings he did "Old Uncle Jim's Story Time," and I was often his guest.
The knobs, flashing lights, and bouncing needles fascinated me. By age 11 I convinced the old man to give me 2 hours every Saturday morning to play music. By age 14 I became serious about journalism because of all the madness going on in Montgomery and the rest of the South at that time. Our little station was firebombed and vandalized several times during the late 1950's and mid-1960's.
When I arrived in Boston in 1969 to attend college the race wars were still going on, and I landed a part-time job as a producer for Red Sox baseball at a major radio station. About a year later, they promoted me to reporter, and I was right back in the wars; a judge's school desgregation order had set the town afire.
When I wasn't dodging bricks I was cooling my heels with members of the station's engineering staff; guys who were building their own tube amps and 25" Heathkit color televisions.
Sadly, I never had time to do those things, but I always wanted to. So, after a 10 year run in New York at the CBS Radio Network, I folded my tent and made it back South in 1994. I assembled a very nice stereo set-up, and the tinkering began.
I still freelance as a writer/reporter, and that often ends up being more time consuming than a so-called fulltime job. But, I'm determined to begin work soon on an A75...and I'll be calling pn you guys to lend a hand.
Thanks for listening.
Sincerely,
Gardenmann
Hi Gardenmann
Welcome to the forums,
There's a lot of tinkering going on here 😉
Good luck with your A75 😉
Greetings from Norway!
Welcome to the forums,
There's a lot of tinkering going on here 😉
Good luck with your A75 😉
Greetings from Norway!
'69 would have not been a great time to go to Boston and work for the Sox; the Orioles were too busy beating the tar out of them.
Best of luck on the A75- it's a very appealling project.
Best of luck on the A75- it's a very appealling project.
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