During the evening in SW Ontario it was amazing how many AM stations and games I could pull in with a small transistor radio, especially from the US.
Seemed like the radio coverage had more info and team news then the local TV broadcasts today.
Casey's Hockey Bible equipment catalog from the '70s.
I spent hours looking through this. This was one of my favorite pages:
Wish I still had it. There's one on Ebay now but $195 is way too steep for reminiscing...
Casey's Hockey Bible equipment catalog from the '70s.
I spent hours looking through this. This was one of my favorite pages:
Wish I still had it. There's one on Ebay now but $195 is way too steep for reminiscing...
I had this exact same catelog! Never ordered anything, but I read it to death. I may still have it (all torn up) somewhere in the basement. Remember the hot model wearing only hockey equipment near the front?Casey's Hockey Bible equipment catalog from the '70s.
I spent hours looking through this. This was one of my favorite pages:
Wish I still had it. There's one on Ebay now but $195 is way too steep for reminiscing...
Listening to games on the radio? In the 70's I could listen to the Seals over the following out-of-town stations from here on Long Island:
Flyers
Penguins
Bruins
Redwings (hard to pick up, would fade in and out)
Capitals (crystal clear)
Flames (Atlanta coming in like a blowtorch)
I could pick up the Canadiens' station but it was in French so couldn't understand it
Can't recall if I got Chicago or not. Could not get Buffalo or Toronto...
Of course, the reception was better late at night when the game was from Oakland. Huddled in my bed with the radio at 1 a.m. on a school night!
Yep. Crisp, hard, thin little pink rectangles. And I'd wipe the "dust" from the gum off the cards.For me one thing is opening up the packages of hockey cards and immediately getting that overpowering smell from the bubble gum they used to include in them. Nothing else smelled like it to this day, it was awful tasting stuff but you still used to get all worked up for it as you went through your pack to see what players cards you got.
That smell and taste and the memories that go along with it...............it's implanted on my brain forever.
Grew up north of London, halfway between Toronto and Det. I know I could count on whatever Boston station that had the Bruins on, listened to them often with that forementioned radio. I remember getting some games from Detroit, came in well at night, and I remember getting various games from the states depending on the reception. Some nights some of the stations would interfer with each other, especially humid nights.
That area can be a hotspot for signals, I have heard games or parts of from a Atlanta station, St. Louis, and Chicago as well, though those were hit and miss. I remember one night getting a signal from Fort Worth, no game of course, but still. The shortwave band used to be a blast back then as well. Funny, we could never get any signal from Hamilton back then, TV or otherwise, strange area for signals in the atmosphere.
Yeah, it was a light touch on those old analog radio tuners, induction coil and a rod, alot of stations would come in and you would have to fine tune the dial slightly every so often as the inductance would shift slightly. It was cool picking up so many stations and bits of games back then as we only got two TV stations with a solid signal.
Radio was a big deal back when a small number of games, like 1 or 2 a week and you got to hear different teams, back when a lot of teams kept many of the same players. Knew many names from hockey cards, and a regular habit of hockey magazines, and hockey books, no hockeydb back then.
Ice storm '77, power out for 2 or so days, farm generator hooked up to the barn and the trailer, like ice camping, eating melba toast, and listening to the Atlanta feed of the Flames and the Blues I believe.
Miss that age of radio and how a snowy sounding signal at night was your link to the game, live as can be, where as the local newspaper often did not have any west coast scores for two days after. Of course today has more options and you get scores and feeds live and have acess to all the games, but at one time radio out and out ruled, a game on was always a warm voice no matter if it was hockey or baseball in the summer.
I was on vacation in Yugoslavia in the early 80’s and was starved for any hockey news,I finally found my grammas World War Two Grundig short wave radio and discovered CBC radio international short wave
On that 4 minute broadcast I heard that Tim Young was traded by minessota and my cousin was arrested for rioting at the Penticton Peach Frstival
Really is a small world
Nice warm sound too I'll bet. Old tube radio's. Grundig huge in Europe. Beautiful old pieces.
Nice warm sound too I'll bet. Old tube radio's. Grundig huge in Europe. Beautiful old pieces.
It was portable with a handle,must of been heavily sentimental it was willed to me.the sound was garbage except when you tuned in to Voice of America broadcasts.
Starter logo on players' jerseys.
The EA NHL 98 and 99 intros (in order). Can't decide which one is better. Make your own choice. But the one with the Bowie prelude probably has an edge: