[78-L] Canadian radio (Was: 78-L mail should be normal now ^)

[David Lennick]

On 9/27/2010 9:28 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>
>> Rewind back a few decades..driving from Toronto to Thunder Bay,
>> and for long stretches there's NOTHING on the radio coz there's
>> no radio. Occasionally you'd see a sign indicating an LPRT
>> (remember those?) which repeated the CBC AM network and had
>> a range of a few miles.
>
> What about the Northern Service?  And Short Wave??

In a '66 Pontiac? Trust me, there was NUTTIN' on the radio for hours on end. I 
think you had to hit the Arctic Circle to get the Northern Service.
>
>> No in-car cassette players coz the cassette hadn't been invented
>> yet. We did a lot of singing in those days.  dl
>
> The cassette itself dates back to 1963 or 64, but before car players
> were developed there was the 8-track, and before that there was the
> 4-track, and before that there was Chrysler's Highway Hi-Fi.  That takes
> us back to 1956.

All true, and hardly any of which was in the average automobile in 1967.

dl