Long Shot Question on What this Sign means? or made for??
We love old Signs, road, street, advertising, etc.
We bought this old sign at an old estate sale recently, no one there knew what /where/why this was used.
Guessing 1940s-1950s- 1960s ---Just a long shot asking here but just maybe someone will know.
It's metal and we can't figure out what the -- 3'S and 8'S -- would mean or stand for???
Anyone have any knowledge on this? Thanks.
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I believe it was for a casino, but I could be wrong.
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CB radio slang. 3s and 8s is best wishes (so long). Possible that was someone's CB handle.
From Daddy Rabbit- KADW 4901
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There's a drop-top in the hammer lane with a seat cover headin' for the owl.
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CB handles and where they are from?
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I agree , cb radio handles and their location .i was KZR 0376
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Looks like you guys nailed it. Found these 2 patches on an auction site.
We never linked it to CBs. What's funny also is way back then, we too had a CB and our handle was--HELL ON WHEELS-- a logo we took from a patch that I had in the Army Reserves from Texas. Thanks all for the info.
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In the day , before it was corrupted and compromised my cb handle was The Rainbow Rider . The name was from the song Joy to the world by 3dog night .
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CB radios has me thinking back they were the hot item to have . and a lot of fun . I remember calling many times you in the "brown chevy " or what ever it happened to be at the time get the heck out of the way .. I wanting to pass
some what embarrassing .. ☺️I had a truck driver once called how about the blond beaver in the mustang 😲 I responded take another look, not a beaver , at the time I had really long blond hair and t-top mustang , so I can see how it got it wrong
I remember my dad most likely one of the very very few that actually sent off and got his licenses when the 4 wheelers ( cars) started getting cb's mostly for bear reports and I am sure Smokey and the bandit movie added more to sales to CB's along with all the trans ams
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Truckers had trouble with roller skates getting in their way. Saying "you shake the trees and I'll rake the leaves", hammer down, peddle to the medal, catch you on the flip flop, seen any smoke, hauling a load of post holes, got your ears on, squirt the dirt, were some of the sayings they used.
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In the day , before it was corrupted and compromised my cb handle was The Rainbow Rider . The name was from the song Joy to the world by 3dog night .
Mine was "Wallbanger"
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Mine was "Wallbanger"
Harvey????????
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Back in the early 80's when my best friend and I got our licenses and first cars.............we put CB's in them because we thought it would be cool. We had no idea what we were doing.
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I was into cb's hobby radio before it exploded. Pretty good group of folks in my area . Sadly not many of them left . Still have a base. station and several mobiles and an amp around
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I was into cb's hobby radio before it exploded. Pretty good group of folks in my area . Sadly not many of them left . Still have a base. station and several mobiles and an amp around
Uncle Jesse ran the base station in Hazzard.
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Back in the day I had a white face Johnson, chicken choker, and a 400 watt pair of boots. Neighbors knew when i fired it up, TV would go bonkers. Sometimes you could find the skip and ratchet jaw half way around the world.
Ever reach in and grab one of the driver tubes in a linear?
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No to grabbing the tubes . Caught the skip running the day Elvis died . Talked with a trucker in Memphis who told me the news .We called the local radio station .,they knew nothing about it .While on the phone with them it came in on their teletype machine from AP .
A buddy ran a set of moonraker beams on a 60 foot tower with a 2000 watt Palamar . You knew when he keyed up
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Still have a standing wave meter .
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