Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Although it would gain its fame as a broadcasting station, KDKA actually originated as part of a project to establish private radiotelegraph links between Westinghouse's East Pittsburgh factory and its other facilities, to avoid the business expense of paying for telegraph and telephone lines. In September 1920, a newspaper report noted that "a new high-power station, to operate under a special or commercial license, is being installed at the Westinghouse plant in East Pittsburgh. It will be used to establish communication between the East Pittsburgh plant and the company branch factories at Cleveland, O., Newark, N. J., and Springfield, Mass., where similar outfits will be employed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Westinghouse will burn your **** down, with a check, or with a thought. You're burned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 CATV started in Pittsburgh (I didn't google it, from memory) It's not "Cable TV" It's "Community Access" tv. Pittsburgh's KDKA went and blew all over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Some guys, up on the hill, could roll a spool of wire down the hill, and everyone in the valley could get tv (one channel) and radio. After a while, they decided that you were all getting our transmission, so y'all should pay for it. Or else. they'd pull the wire back up the hill, which they did, and everyone started paying. Profitable cable tv was started. From Westingstinghouse's invention. After he got all his air-brake money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 We'd sit on the north-side, up on the river, and watch the Westinghouse sign. all night, . on Thai stick. The sign changed ever ten seconds. Rumor says it never repeated (the flashes, and lights, and syncs, and incandescent bulbs it did.), for infinity, WESTINGHOUSE! WESTINGHOUSE!! FLASH! FLASH! W! WE!! WES!! We're pretty sure we caught it repeating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 "HEY, WAIT, WAIT, NO!!!!" "IT JUST DID THAT!!" ::puff puff:: "RIGHT?!?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 And then, so, after a while, you weren't even allowed along the river any more. "It's youse guys again? Why are you here?" "Lookin' at the sign." "Do you have beer in the trunk?" "No Sir". "OK. We should both be leaving now." "Yes Sir." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 We got pulled over with beer in the trunk, or back-seat, every week, for years. So.... The police chastised us, and took our beer. It sucked on us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 One time, Kurt, in his Dad's Impala.... I don't know the engines, but this one had a monster. Late '70's. Pea-Green four-door. This was not a suburban commuter car. This ****** would bail ****. I had been in it too many times on the Friday rips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 So... The cops lit us up. I'm the passenger. We only have ten cases of beer in the trunk. (Impala's could hold 500 cases of beer in the trunk. IT'S a really big trunk) Right in our 'hood. One block from his house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 So.... I'm just a stupid passenger, with my hippy-hockey hair, and my OD green Army jacket.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 AND KURT PUNCHED IT!!!!! This car could blow the police RIGHT off! Dust!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 He hooked a, screaming, right, right into a dead-end road. That we both knew was a dead-end road. So there's that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 But as soon as he punched it, he screamed across the curb, and the front yard, on the house on the corner. And slid, sideways, across the yard, and slammed, sideways, into their front porch, and took out some front-porch posts. So, now...... We're crashed, sideways, in a wicked fast pea green Impala. And some guy opens his front door, and says, "WTF?" And there's three police cars, behind us, all lit up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 We're pretty dicked-off now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 So..... The cops took our trunk-full of beer, and made us promise, with the guys handshake, to fix his yard and posts. Which we did. With little effort. Kurt even beat-up and made kids who weren't even there, fix the house with us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 One time, Kurt's Dad said, "Hey! I was driving home today" "And saw a 4-door pea-green Impala, which I clocked, going 90mph, in a 45-the-whole-way zone!' (from the Northway Mall, from wehnce the National Record Mart and pinball emporium originates) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 And Kurt said, "I unknow?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Which totally didn't work, so he beat us up, with no monetary penalty. We didn't even know what we did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 We had timing lights and tachometers , to skiv this car deep, and a couple times, for no reason, some other kid would bring a carburetor from shop-class, just to bolt on for tonight. So.... We were only going to the concert, dahntahn, only crossing one bridge, at best, and needed a screaming 8-pack, on the pea-green Impala. We got dahntahn in, like, four minutes. Let alone whatever Kurt's gonna do, while your down there. IN the middle. At the concert. Kurt would flip-off the cop, yell "fck you!" and punch it. He did it all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 So.... After the concert, Kurt would burn a 1/4 mile sideways burn, across the parking lot, with an 8-pack, blowing hot rubber all off over dahntahn, while we only had five cases of beer in the trunk left. Then we'd go to the park, with the girls, and party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 It was made to hold, what?, five people. But we could hold five boys and 15 girls. This was a great car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Back then, (still is), you can only get beer at a beer distributor. With a big brother's ID, or a fake ID, you could get a keg. But at the bar, you can only get two six-packs. So... you can't walk into the bar and say you want 600 six-packs. You have to buy two six-packs, pay for two six-packs, and walk out with two six-packs. We'd have an assembly line going. All the drunks at the bar, at midnight, would be howling at us. So... we'd have to jam the 15 girls into the front seat, because we had 600 six-packs in the backseat. And all going WOOOOOOO!!! as we drove off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Back then, we had "Field Parties". 1000 kids. In some farm-back-road wherever-we -were. So.... We'd pull in with 600 six-packs, and 15 girls.. And someother jagoffs, from someother high school would pull in with 600 six-packs and 15 girls. And another high school... Might be fights. Might be a friendly parley, culminating in a brilliant party. Until we met them jagoffs at the Friday hockey game. Parking-lot fights, and then more 30 girls field parties. It worked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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