[78-L] The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology (way OT)

[Don Chichester]

When I was a kid, my buddy and I discovered that the county was determining the traffic flow with one of those pulse hoses.  So we spent the day jumping up and down on the hose!
 
Don Chichester 
> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 06:45:26 -0600
> From: citrogsa at charter.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology
> 
> On 3/4/2011 4:01, David Lennick wrote:
> > On 3/4/2011 4:52 PM, kil wrote:
> >> From: "David Lennick"
> >>> Here are a few more lost sounds, from the radio-tv list where this thread
> >>> first
> >>> turned up:
> >>>
> >>> gas station air-lines that 'ding' a bell
> >>>
> >> That one is not lost. We have a Hess Station that still does that. It's
> >> still free too.
> >> RayK
> >>
> > I think that was referring to the "ding" you'd hear as you drove onto the
> > property, to alert the attendant (remember "attendants"?), not the air hose
> > (glad to hear there's still free air somewhere though).
> >
> They did run on hoses which were trailed across the drives. One end was 
> connected to the pneumatic ringer and the other end was plugged. When a 
> tired compressed the hose, it would send a pressure pulse to the ringer. 
> I remember. I ran gas stations until the 80's.
> 
> And cars still get "tuneups". When the points, timing and fuel mixture 
> were just right, the car actually made a distinct tone at idle.
> 
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