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Iadn...We have very similar backgrounds. I started at 11 as I said in my last post. By the time I was sixteen and had my first car I had my own darkroom and was stringing for the local daily... I guess we're talking late 60s early 70s. I actually had 3 Electra bearcat 101 radios which were AC only so I had a converter on the floor of the backseat so I could reach around and toggle the switch to get AC power LOL.
It eventually led me to a career in journalism as both a photographer and a reporter. We used two way radios until the bag phones and what we used to call Shoe phones came along. The Motorola flip phone with the leather case looks like a shoe. Get Smart. My company car had a mobile phone also and several scanners.
Ended up retiring on a pension from my newspaper as a department editor. I owe it all to my hobby of scanning. It's one thing to be a weegie wanna be, it's another thing to actually be an Arthur Fellig yourself. ...
Love your story... Bob.
It eventually led me to a career in journalism as both a photographer and a reporter. We used two way radios until the bag phones and what we used to call Shoe phones came along. The Motorola flip phone with the leather case looks like a shoe. Get Smart. My company car had a mobile phone also and several scanners.
Ended up retiring on a pension from my newspaper as a department editor. I owe it all to my hobby of scanning. It's one thing to be a weegie wanna be, it's another thing to actually be an Arthur Fellig yourself. ...
Love your story... Bob.
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