Weekend Assignment #88: Talk about something people have today that you wished you had when you were a kid.
from http://journals.aol.com/johnmscalzi/bytheway/
I would love to have had a VCR recorder when I was a teen-ager back in 1968.
That was when I fell in love with two cowboys on a TV western series, Lancer. I wanted to watch the shows over and over again, but of course, there was no way to do that. After two years, the show was cancelled.
But I had initiative and inspiration! Before the show went off the air, I had taped a few of the shows on my dad's reel-to-reel audio tape deck. I even cut out the commercials. I could "watch" the show as often as I wanted, replay the stories that captivated my heart as I imagined Johnnie and Scott in their various heroic, romantic, or stoic scenes while I listened to the music, the voices of the characters, and the sound effects. I loved westerns back then.
So did my dad, which is why he probably let me make the tapes in the first place. After a few episodes, I stopped taping them because it was a lot of work to get my family to cooperate, and it took time to make the tapes. There could be no talking, laughing, moving about during the taping since every sound was picked up by the sensitive mic as I held it up to the speaker on the TV. I had six younger siblings at the time, and I don't remember how I managed to get even one entire episode without all the background noise there surely must have been. A lot of work and patience.
About twenty years later, when my husband and I bought our first VCR player/recorder, I remember thinking I sure could have used one of them when I was a kid!
I found the picures above at this website. There were other websites, of course, featuring summaries of each episode, but you all are search savvy.
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I was a Lady Lancer when I played basketball and soccer at Worcester State College.
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