WEBVTT 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:08.439 All right, hello and welcome to "Hangin' Out with 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:14.960 Bob," a podcast hosted by me, Bob Edholm. Thanks 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:19.019 for joining and let's get started. "Hangin' Out 00:00:19.019 --> 00:00:21.480 with Bob" is a podcast where guests tell us their 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:23.660 stories, where they grew up, what they're doing 00:00:23.660 --> 00:00:26.760 now, which shows they stream, which books they 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:29.199 read, which teams they cheer for, and yada, yada, 00:00:29.260 --> 00:00:31.539 yada. And the more laughs we can have telling 00:00:31.539 --> 00:00:33.479 stories and hanging out together, the better. 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:38.219 That said, let me introduce my two guests today. 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:42.619 Maybe I should call this episode "All in the Family," 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.140 because these two guys just happen to be my brothers, 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:51.979 Dave Edholm and Tom Edholm. Same last name, 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:54.750 same parents. And all three of us are Boomers. 00:00:54.990 --> 00:00:57.329 Boomers with Millennials for kids and Generation 00:00:57.329 --> 00:00:59.590 Alphas for grandkids. Thanks for being here, 00:00:59.649 --> 00:01:01.310 guys. Appreciate it. Can't think of a better 00:01:01.310 --> 00:01:03.509 way to begin my broadcast than with my two brothers 00:01:03.509 --> 00:01:05.930 as guests. So for the next few minutes, we're 00:01:05.930 --> 00:01:07.329 just going to be telling each other a little 00:01:07.329 --> 00:01:10.730 bit about ourselves. I'll go first, and I promise 00:01:10.730 --> 00:01:12.370 none of us will go for more than two minutes. 00:01:16.469 --> 00:01:19.250 So let us know if we're getting long in the tooth. 00:01:19.769 --> 00:01:23.189 Again, my name is Bob Edholm. I'm a Boomer. 00:01:23.290 --> 00:01:26.250 Like I said, I turned 71 in April. Whoa. I live 00:01:26.250 --> 00:01:27.950 in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, which is also 00:01:27.950 --> 00:01:30.500 where my brothers and I grew up, I was born 00:01:30.500 --> 00:01:32.879 in Minneapolis, but then when we were nine years 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:34.519 old, we moved up to Columbia Heights, and that's 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:37.599 where I ended up going to school and you know 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:39.760 went to a Highland Elementary and then Columbia 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:41.879 Junior High School and then Columbia Heights 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:44.260 Senior High School and then afterward we went 00:01:44.260 --> 00:01:46.280 to college, went to Anoka-Ramsey for a couple 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:49.359 years, and then we also went to the University 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:51.719 of Minnesota where I graduated with a degree 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:55.170 in journalism. I worked on a newspaper for three 00:01:55.170 --> 00:01:57.650 years after college and then I came back to the 00:01:57.650 --> 00:02:01.069 Twin Cities and got a job in communications and 00:02:01.069 --> 00:02:04.590 public relations for about 16 years and then 00:02:04.590 --> 00:02:06.909 stayed in insurance at that company as Prudential 00:02:06.909 --> 00:02:12.330 for 24 years total. I started over a few times 00:02:12.330 --> 00:02:15.229 in different jobs and then I got a job with the 00:02:15.229 --> 00:02:16.849 Voya Financial Insurance Company. I was there 00:02:16.849 --> 00:02:18.990 for almost 10 years and I was there till just 00:02:18.990 --> 00:02:23.270 this past April. My job was eliminated. So right 00:02:23.270 --> 00:02:26.530 now, I'm just getting into the podcast thing 00:02:26.530 --> 00:02:28.610 that was recommended by a few people to try that. 00:02:29.490 --> 00:02:31.090 And if I can find work as a proofreader, I'll 00:02:31.090 --> 00:02:33.770 do that as well. But I'm enjoying retirement, 00:02:33.969 --> 00:02:37.569 so to speak, and doing a lot of reading and streaming 00:02:37.569 --> 00:02:40.270 and spending time with my daughter and son -in 00:02:40.270 --> 00:02:46.370 -law and granddaughter and my brothers. Okay, 00:02:46.909 --> 00:02:49.960 Dave, you can go next. And we've got a quick 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:51.860 joke for you. What do you call a monk with a 00:02:51.860 --> 00:02:58.719 podcast? An "air friar." Thank you very much. Go 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.979 ahead, Dave. And with that, anyway, so I'm Dave. 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:06.400 Yeah, Bob and Tom are my brothers from the Heights, 00:03:06.460 --> 00:03:09.439 from northeast Minneapolis. Actually, that's 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:13.330 where I lived my first seven years. Yeah, fond 00:03:13.330 --> 00:03:16.430 memories of growing up when I did. Obviously 00:03:16.430 --> 00:03:21.150 I'm a boomer as well. I taught for 42 years. 00:03:21.650 --> 00:03:25.669 Have a family, have lots of kids. Still very 00:03:25.669 --> 00:03:28.590 busy with them. Still actually sub -teaching 00:03:28.590 --> 00:03:33.129 on occasion and currently just staying real busy 00:03:33.129 --> 00:03:36.330 with like remodeled stuff and so forth. Yeah, 00:03:36.430 --> 00:03:38.909 what you've been working on this year? Just... 00:03:38.889 --> 00:03:43.090 Kind of, I'm doing a bathroom, doing a whole 00:03:43.090 --> 00:03:48.370 bunch of landscaping. So, but obviously I don't 00:03:48.370 --> 00:03:51.129 recover like I used to, so the projects are taking 00:03:51.129 --> 00:03:54.229 considerably longer. But yeah, looking forward 00:03:54.229 --> 00:03:56.949 to doing this and talking about some of the old 00:03:56.949 --> 00:04:03.409 days growing up in Heights. Good for now? Okay, 00:04:03.509 --> 00:04:06.530 good. And Tom, here's another bad joke. Why don't 00:04:06.530 --> 00:04:09.930 boomers like to use AC or DC? They hate anything that 00:04:09.930 --> 00:04:22.259 is current. Wrong one. Okay. All right, and Tom, 00:04:22.259 --> 00:04:23.980 you take it away. You get you get two minutes, 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.600 two-minute warning with no timeouts. Well, I'm 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:29.800 Tom, and I'm the younger and better-looking of 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.519 the three brothers. But yeah, same background, 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:37.759 same schools and everything. As my brothers mentioned 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:41.879 before, I grew up in the Heights until I was 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:45.620 about 22 or 24, actually. And then I moved out 00:04:45.620 --> 00:04:48.290 to the northwest subarbs and have been there ever since. 00:04:48.790 --> 00:04:51.310 I spent 38 years in the heating and air conditioning 00:04:51.310 --> 00:04:58.310 business. This is a contract versus a contractor 00:04:58.310 --> 00:05:02.790 the last 15 years as on the sales side, distribution 00:05:02.790 --> 00:05:04.990 sales after I got too beat up to do the work 00:05:04.990 --> 00:05:09.069 anymore. I have, as Bob mentioned, I have some 00:05:09.069 --> 00:05:13.089 kids in their 30s and a bunch of grandkids and... 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:17.480 Just still do a lot of work around the house 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:22.319 and we do a lot more traveling now. Love Florida 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:25.519 and we've been all over the place the last few 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.420 years so we enjoy doing that and look forward 00:05:28.420 --> 00:05:30.180 to doing more. I still have a few years left 00:05:30.180 --> 00:05:35.120 before I retire. But we're empty nesters now. 00:05:35.740 --> 00:05:41.139 We've always had dogs and we... we started taking 00:05:41.139 --> 00:05:44.160 in rescue dogs a few years ago. So we're we enjoy 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.620 that. That's the challenge, obviously, but but 00:05:46.620 --> 00:05:49.019 yeah, have a good time with that. And yeah, looking 00:05:49.019 --> 00:05:51.180 forward to looking forward to talking about the 00:05:51.180 --> 00:05:57.420 old hood. We just drove through it on the way 00:05:57.420 --> 00:05:59.879 here, actually. So just to clarify time, did 00:05:59.879 --> 00:06:02.279 you indicate which suburb you're in? No, I didn't. 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:05.300 Okay. I'm in the northwest suburb. No, I'm up 00:06:05.300 --> 00:06:07.810 in the Anoka area. Okay. Okay. And then Dave's 00:06:07.810 --> 00:06:12.649 also in there. Andover and Ramsey. Okay, again, 00:06:12.730 --> 00:06:14.430 the name of this podcast is "Hangin' Out with 00:06:14.430 --> 00:06:16.589 Bob." I'm your host, Bob Edholm. And my two guests 00:06:16.589 --> 00:06:22.970 are my brothers, Dave and Tom Edholm. And now 00:06:22.970 --> 00:06:24.649 that you've heard a little bit about us, the 00:06:24.649 --> 00:06:27.550 three of us, we're all going to talk a little 00:06:27.550 --> 00:06:29.790 bit about the house where we grew up in in Columbia 00:06:29.790 --> 00:06:32.769 Heights. It was on a street called Chatham Road. 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:36.500 Just arbitrarily, Tom, I'm gonna ask you first. 00:06:36.740 --> 00:06:38.980 Just kind of tell us about the house as you remember 00:06:38.980 --> 00:06:41.959 it, on Chatham. Well, a lot of fine memories 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:46.920 of that place. It was a small house, but I, you 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:49.449 know, I... still marvel at the fact that the 00:06:49.449 --> 00:06:52.009 three of us shared a bedroom that was about eight 00:06:52.009 --> 00:06:58.730 by 10. It was just a your typical late 50s rambler 00:06:58.730 --> 00:07:02.629 track home detached garage. Yep. We had an unfinished 00:07:02.629 --> 00:07:06.089 basement for years and years. And like I said, 00:07:06.850 --> 00:07:11.930 it's flooded every time it rains. So there wasn't 00:07:11.930 --> 00:07:14.310 much we could do with that. But yeah, it was 00:07:14.310 --> 00:07:19.800 it was small. One thing I do miss about it is 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:22.420 the house I have now, I mow about an acre and 00:07:22.420 --> 00:07:25.740 that lawn I could mow in about three and a half 00:07:25.740 --> 00:07:27.800 minutes. You know, it's just a postage stamp 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:30.639 compared to what I've had my whole adult life. 00:07:31.339 --> 00:07:35.110 But no, it was awesome. The only thing that was 00:07:35.110 --> 00:07:37.389 funnier than the three of us sharing that bedroom 00:07:37.389 --> 00:07:39.970 was the fact that we'd all eat around all five 00:07:39.970 --> 00:07:42.910 of us a kitchen table and even a smaller area. 00:07:44.970 --> 00:07:47.689 Yeah, it was it was crazy. You know, different 00:07:47.689 --> 00:07:50.410 times now. And it was nice having a neighbor 00:07:50.410 --> 00:07:52.750 literally eight feet from you on each side. You 00:07:52.750 --> 00:07:59.540 know, you hear their arguments and stuff. Yeah, 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:02.660 a lot of fun memories in that house, obviously. 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:06.019 Spent most of my life there, right? For 20 years 00:08:06.019 --> 00:08:08.060 of my life, I stayed in that house. Right, you 00:08:08.060 --> 00:08:10.180 never did live in Minneapolis. Dave and I, we 00:08:10.180 --> 00:08:13.240 were northeast to when we were little boys. I 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:15.220 was nine and Dave was seven when we moved up 00:08:15.220 --> 00:08:17.500 the Heights. Yeah, you did everything in the 00:08:17.500 --> 00:08:18.680 Heights. You even got married in the Heights. 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:26.779 Yeah, well, my wife's from the Heights, so. Okay, 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:30.120 go ahead, Dave. One thing I remember about that 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.820 house, you know, I was just talking to some people 00:08:32.820 --> 00:08:34.980 from Heights who I golfed with this last week, 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.720 but I thought this was always pretty funny. None 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:45.480 of us had air conditioning. And at least I think 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:47.600 my parents may have gotten air conditioning when 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:54.879 I was like 20. And when I would go over there, 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:59.120 I thought it just felt great. So we were talking 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:03.980 about the fact that if there was a heat wave, 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:07.779 what would end up happening usually is that you 00:09:07.779 --> 00:09:10.039 wouldn't sleep for like three nights, even as 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:14.139 a kid. And you'd be like just super exhausted. 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:22.129 You'd wake up and just sweat like a pig. And 00:09:22.129 --> 00:09:24.590 so you'd go about three or four nights without 00:09:24.590 --> 00:09:26.889 sleeping but then about the fifth night you'd 00:09:26.889 --> 00:09:29.529 be so exhausted and kind of used to it that you'd 00:09:29.529 --> 00:09:31.789 actually fall asleep but by that time the heat 00:09:31.789 --> 00:09:34.009 wave had actually broken so it started to get 00:09:34.009 --> 00:09:36.950 cooler again. The other thing that I'll never 00:09:36.950 --> 00:09:39.690 forget about that house is that we lived on Chatham 00:09:39.690 --> 00:09:42.090 and there was a time when there wasn't a stop 00:09:42.090 --> 00:09:45.669 sign on Chatham. They put a stop sign on Golf 00:09:45.669 --> 00:09:48.330 Place in Chatham which is I want to say probably 00:09:48.330 --> 00:09:51.340 about a couple hundred yards, maybe an eighth 00:09:51.340 --> 00:09:54.299 of a mile from Fairway Drive. And what would 00:09:54.299 --> 00:09:56.720 happen, because you'd have to have the windows 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:59.440 open in the summertime, what would always happen 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:03.399 is that guys who were older than us who had hot 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:07.000 rods would take a right on Fairway and they would 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:15.049 literally drag race. Going on Chatham Road and 00:10:15.049 --> 00:10:18.409 I mean you absolutely could hear it It was impossible 00:10:18.409 --> 00:10:20.610 not to because all the windows in the house were 00:10:20.610 --> 00:10:23.429 open but and then eventually they ended up putting 00:10:23.429 --> 00:10:26.789 the stops on I think that that Helped it cut 00:10:26.789 --> 00:10:30.190 yet it cut down considerably on the number of 00:10:30.190 --> 00:10:32.210 drag races But I can't imagine what would have 00:10:32.210 --> 00:10:33.929 happened to those cars when they would have been 00:10:33.929 --> 00:10:41.129 going up that hill after Golf Place, because 00:10:41.129 --> 00:10:43.450 there was a slight incline, it wouldn't surprise 00:10:43.450 --> 00:10:46.649 me if some of those cars probably got air, because 00:10:46.649 --> 00:10:52.809 they would really wind it up. I'll share a couple 00:10:52.809 --> 00:10:55.570 things about the house, too. Actually, this is 00:10:55.570 --> 00:10:57.210 before you were born, Tom, just before you were 00:10:57.210 --> 00:10:59.610 born, but that house did not have a garage. It 00:10:59.610 --> 00:11:03.610 had a gravel driveway, and it was just a three 00:11:03.610 --> 00:11:06.039 -bedroom rambler. I remember I think it was painted 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:10.039 green with, you know, white trim. Shakes. Yeah, 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:12.840 shakes. Yeah, shakes. Yeah. And yeah, obviously 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:17.120 no air conditioning until I was like 21 or so 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:19.419 before I put that in the base in the house, which 00:11:19.419 --> 00:11:21.460 was great. But I can remember. Do you remember 00:11:21.460 --> 00:11:26.529 we had no fences? You were talking about the 00:11:26.529 --> 00:11:30.070 no fence. Right, and we could burn trash. Yes. 00:11:30.409 --> 00:11:32.730 And I can remember, I remember one time, I don't 00:11:32.730 --> 00:11:34.429 know if it happened more than once, but I remember 00:11:34.429 --> 00:11:36.669 one time where, you know, I can remember dad 00:11:36.669 --> 00:11:39.730 telling us never to put aerosol cans in the, 00:11:39.850 --> 00:11:41.490 you know, like a right guard deodorant, spray 00:11:41.490 --> 00:11:44.250 deodorant. I remember I accidentally emptied 00:11:44.250 --> 00:11:46.129 out the trash and put it in, it was burning. 00:11:46.250 --> 00:11:48.899 And I go, dad, I think, uh, There's an aerosol 00:11:48.899 --> 00:11:51.879 can in there. He took that really well. And he 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.519 says, get away from that trash burner. And we 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:57.139 were by the house. And about 10 minutes after 00:11:57.139 --> 00:11:58.620 the fire was going on, I was sitting here to 00:11:58.620 --> 00:12:02.220 boom. And then it did pop. It wasn't going to 00:12:02.220 --> 00:12:05.659 tear. Did we throw a cherry bomb in there? No, 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:08.440 I think that there were some people behind us 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.139 that had cherry bombs. And we thought it'd be 00:12:11.139 --> 00:12:14.539 kind of cool to see what would happen. And I 00:12:14.539 --> 00:12:17.379 think we put the lid on after we threw the cherry. 00:12:17.259 --> 00:12:19.559 bomb in and it soon ignited and I don't know 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:22.559 if it blew the lid off but it was it was created 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:28.159 quite a ruckus. Oh, that's funny. But I remember 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:30.039 that house and I remember it was, it was, it 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:32.720 was, Chatham Road was a busy street in our neighborhood 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:34.799 or in Columbia Heights because a lot of times 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:36.779 kids that would drive to high school would go 00:12:36.779 --> 00:12:38.500 up Chatham Road. It was kind of a main drag. 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:41.299 I got a lot of traffic, so a lot of people would 00:12:41.299 --> 00:12:43.779 end up going by our house that we knew from school 00:12:43.779 --> 00:12:47.240 or whatever. Well, it was a shortcut for people 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:49.799 to get to Apache, too. Oh, yeah. Apache Plaza 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:51.519 was a shopping mall not far from my house. It 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:55.879 was very, very popular. Exactly. And Silver Lake. 00:12:57.990 --> 00:13:04.350 Okay, well, I'm going to go on to the next topic 00:13:04.350 --> 00:13:06.909 now guys. We talked about the house we grew up 00:13:06.909 --> 00:13:09.850 in, but let's just leave the house in the yard 00:13:09.850 --> 00:13:12.309 for a little bit and just talk about our neighborhood 00:13:12.309 --> 00:13:14.830 where we actually live, that part of Columbia 00:13:14.830 --> 00:13:17.669 Heights. I was going to start with the fact that 00:13:17.669 --> 00:13:20.690 our whole neighborhood there, you know, for blocks 00:13:20.690 --> 00:13:25.139 and blocks, was once a golf course. It was called 00:13:25.139 --> 00:13:27.519 Hilltop Golf Course. It was gone before any of 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:30.100 us were born. I think it was there till about 00:13:30.100 --> 00:13:32.600 the mid -40s. But it was an 18 -hole golf course, 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:36.259 and it had 18 holes. And I've shared with my 00:13:36.259 --> 00:13:39.220 brothers just some maps of the course, hand -drawn 00:13:39.220 --> 00:13:42.100 maps. It kind of shows how the course is laid 00:13:42.100 --> 00:13:45.279 out. And it went as far west as almost like where 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:49.039 the high school was, and up to kind of the neighborhood 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:52.379 known as Innsbruck, all the way to Stinson Boulevard, 00:13:52.460 --> 00:13:54.379 where the seminary. was in it so it took up a 00:13:54.379 --> 00:13:56.919 lot of area and I've often wondered but what 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:58.899 how cool that would have been if you could somehow 00:13:58.899 --> 00:14:01.279 walk those 18 holes right you know I've heard 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:03.259 it said that our house we were kind of at the 00:14:03.259 --> 00:14:07.279 bottom of Chatham Road or level part that was 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:09.860 like a green to a hole or something you know 00:14:09.860 --> 00:14:13.840 the first hole it was it was it was close to 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:16.549 the clubhouse but that was it was a It was right 00:14:16.549 --> 00:14:19.830 down the fairway or a hole where we were. So, 00:14:20.230 --> 00:14:22.070 do you guys have any other? Well, speaking of 00:14:22.070 --> 00:14:24.350 the clubhouse, the clubhouse was actually on 00:14:24.350 --> 00:14:27.769 45th. Yes. In Chatham. Yes, still there. And 00:14:27.769 --> 00:14:30.769 several families that we knew, at least a couple 00:14:30.769 --> 00:14:32.710 of families that we knew fairly well, because 00:14:32.710 --> 00:14:34.970 the Philippi's lived there for a time. Yep. 00:14:35.330 --> 00:14:39.830 And the Lahti's lived there for quite a while 00:14:39.830 --> 00:14:43.190 as well. So, that was actually the old clubhouse, 00:14:43.330 --> 00:14:46.559 right? It would be the... northeast corner of 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:52.299 45th and Chatham. I don't believe our dad ever 00:14:52.299 --> 00:14:54.759 played that course either because I know he played 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:56.720 like Columbia and Gross I think when he was growing 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:58.840 up but I would have just loved to talk to somebody 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:02.539 that I remember. Doug Latawiec told us his dad, 00:15:02.860 --> 00:15:05.820 Chet, who was a golfer really enjoyed golfing. 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.750 I think he caddied or played that course. Fore! 00:15:10.049 --> 00:15:11.509 Well, anything you have to remember, like that 00:15:11.509 --> 00:15:14.649 course has been gone for like eighty years. Yeah. 00:15:14.809 --> 00:15:17.549 I mean, so anybody that had played it would be, 00:15:17.549 --> 00:15:19.409 you know, a hundred or more now, so there's no... 00:15:19.409 --> 00:15:22.129 There was a developer who developed all the land. 00:15:22.330 --> 00:15:24.769 Wasn't his name Jessup? He was the guy that built 00:15:24.769 --> 00:15:27.029 our house. Yeah, there was about 10 or 11 houses 00:15:27.029 --> 00:15:30.769 on our street. I think he built, well, the floor 00:15:30.769 --> 00:15:33.309 plan, I think, was the same for half the houses 00:15:33.309 --> 00:15:35.269 on the block. Well, all the ramblers had essentially 00:15:35.269 --> 00:15:37.210 the same layout. There were a couple of one and 00:15:37.210 --> 00:15:39.389 a half stories, weren't there? Yeah, and those 00:15:39.389 --> 00:15:47.529 were built earlier. Grant's house was, I think, 00:15:47.590 --> 00:15:50.549 one of them. Yeah, right. Ours was, I think, 00:15:50.590 --> 00:15:53.610 the first one, or at least at that end. And then 00:15:53.610 --> 00:15:56.009 the second or third house from the corner also 00:15:56.009 --> 00:15:58.850 had that same, they all had that same look to 00:15:58.850 --> 00:16:03.149 it. Yeah, they were identical. But let's talk 00:16:03.149 --> 00:16:04.769 about some other memories that you guys can think 00:16:04.769 --> 00:16:07.990 of. I mean, there was that park. Yeah. It was 00:16:07.990 --> 00:16:14.049 a huge part of growing up there. That's where 00:16:14.049 --> 00:16:17.389 everybody hung out. It was a great place to take 00:16:17.389 --> 00:16:22.590 your bike and jumps and wipe out. And you didn't 00:16:22.590 --> 00:16:27.090 have far to go home crying after that. But remember 00:16:27.090 --> 00:16:31.669 the baseball games down there? Sandlot baseball? 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:34.820 It's disappeared. It doesn't exist anymore. I 00:16:34.820 --> 00:16:36.940 don't see anybody using it. There was no hockey 00:16:36.940 --> 00:16:40.440 rink, but in the winter you get the skaters. 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:50.679 It would be packed. Do you guys remember that 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:54.059 it would be east of Hilltop Park? So that would 00:16:54.059 --> 00:16:58.059 be Upland Crest. But one of the families, it 00:16:58.059 --> 00:17:01.850 was a very steep hill. I mean, really steep and 00:17:01.850 --> 00:17:04.049 they had they tried to grow lawns on that hill, 00:17:04.049 --> 00:17:06.710 but there was a I remember one time we were up 00:17:06.710 --> 00:17:09.210 there playing baseball and there was a guy who 00:17:09.210 --> 00:17:15.710 had his lawnmower on a rope. And he was like 00:17:15.710 --> 00:17:19.490 he was gently letting the lawnmower down down 00:17:19.490 --> 00:17:22.369 down the rope and then he pull it back up. But. 00:17:25.950 --> 00:17:28.329 Anyway, yeah, just to give you some indication, 00:17:28.950 --> 00:17:30.789 the other thing that I remember is that there 00:17:30.789 --> 00:17:33.789 was a path where there wasn't, there weren't 00:17:33.789 --> 00:17:38.569 any homes, and that path ran from up on that 00:17:38.569 --> 00:17:41.930 little hill on Chatham all the way up to the 00:17:41.930 --> 00:17:43.950 water tower. That was obviously some kind of 00:17:43.950 --> 00:17:45.809 a water main. Well they had pipes, there were 00:17:45.809 --> 00:17:47.890 these giant pipes. They had these gigantic pipes, 00:17:48.190 --> 00:17:51.390 and that was the place where I swear that... 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.539 John Ellison probably saved my life there because 00:17:54.539 --> 00:17:57.420 we'd get these pipes that weighed like several 00:17:57.420 --> 00:18:00.420 tons and because it was hilly you could you could 00:18:00.420 --> 00:18:03.779 push them down a hill and I thought it was I 00:18:03.779 --> 00:18:05.359 thought it would be kind of fun to just kind 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:08.980 of jump jump on the pipe as it was rolling and 00:18:08.980 --> 00:18:11.359 luckily he grabbed me by the belt because I think 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:13.500 if I would have gone over that pipe I just would 00:18:13.500 --> 00:18:18.619 have been crushed but anyway but yeah and then 00:18:18.619 --> 00:18:21.920 over where Roddy's lived that was an opening 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:24.660 there, but that went all the way to the water 00:18:24.660 --> 00:18:27.039 tower, which was the coolest water tower ever, 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:29.880 because you could bang rocks off of it. The old 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:33.059 one. It almost sounded like bullets. It did, 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:40.420 yes. The rock would hit it. And you knew you 00:18:40.420 --> 00:18:43.539 could really throw it. throw a ball far if you 00:18:43.539 --> 00:18:45.880 could throw a rock on top of that water tower. 00:18:46.460 --> 00:18:48.819 I couldn't tell you what year I could finally 00:18:48.819 --> 00:18:52.079 do that, but that was always the goal. Do you 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:54.799 remember that hill, speaking of that hill? I 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:56.660 can remember for a couple of winters, at least 00:18:56.660 --> 00:18:59.359 when the skating rink was open, they turned it 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:02.220 into kind of almost like a ski track. They got 00:19:02.220 --> 00:19:05.460 the snow to harden and guys would go up on their 00:19:05.460 --> 00:19:08.059 skates up that hill and then to ski down the 00:19:08.059 --> 00:19:11.119 hill on their skates. And I remember one time 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:13.900 our Uncle Joe did that. I don't remember that. 00:19:13.900 --> 00:19:16.220 He came skating with us up at the rink. Yeah. 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:18.279 And then he went over with all the teenagers 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:20.279 and they were going down the hill. You know, 00:19:20.619 --> 00:19:23.549 if I did, I'd always wipe out or something. because 00:19:23.549 --> 00:19:24.730 it was one of those things where it was kind 00:19:24.730 --> 00:19:27.829 of a daredevil thing. Yes, yeah. The other thing 00:19:27.829 --> 00:19:29.890 that you can't forget about that skating rink 00:19:29.890 --> 00:19:33.990 is that first of all, the bullies. I mean, there 00:19:33.990 --> 00:19:36.690 were bullies like everywhere and it was absolutely 00:19:36.690 --> 00:19:39.609 commonplace to just get your head just stuffed 00:19:39.609 --> 00:19:43.589 into a snowbank for no apparent reason at all, 00:19:43.589 --> 00:19:47.329 but you just kind of shook it off and that's 00:19:47.329 --> 00:19:48.789 just kind of what you did. And the other thing 00:19:48.789 --> 00:19:50.549 too is that there were a lot of kids that were 00:19:50.549 --> 00:19:52.369 smoking when they were about eight. Oh yeah. 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:55.460 If you weren't playing pull away, you were smoking 00:19:55.460 --> 00:19:59.559 until Clayton came out and chewed you away. And 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:01.059 then while he was out shooting you away, you 00:20:01.059 --> 00:20:03.859 go and steal candy out of his little office there. 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:09.910 I can still smell that. Tom Moore soda. Yeah, they 00:20:09.910 --> 00:20:13.650 had the old pop machines. And then it was before 00:20:13.650 --> 00:20:15.390 our time, even before we even moved up there. 00:20:15.849 --> 00:20:18.529 But I remember mom telling us that our grandpa 00:20:18.529 --> 00:20:20.890 was one of those warming house guys. Right. He 00:20:20.890 --> 00:20:22.970 was yelling at the kids all the time. But this 00:20:22.970 --> 00:20:25.829 was like in the 50s or, you know. and there was 00:20:25.829 --> 00:20:28.490 some dude named Ambrose who had a very strong 00:20:28.490 --> 00:20:31.410 either northeast or Polish accent and he kept 00:20:31.410 --> 00:20:34.529 he'd always tell people to close the door closed 00:20:34.529 --> 00:20:37.029 the door yeah because if he kept it open he was 00:20:37.029 --> 00:20:39.710 he had a chair right by that door and it's freezing 00:20:39.710 --> 00:20:42.549 out you know it's like close zero and he'd be 00:20:42.549 --> 00:20:44.930 wondering about that so yeah good memories oh 00:20:44.930 --> 00:20:46.970 and one last place i'm going to bring up and 00:20:46.970 --> 00:20:48.589 and Tom he probably spent that time there too 00:20:48.589 --> 00:20:51.130 because it was still open was the area we called 00:20:51.130 --> 00:20:53.789 the "Tabletop" right across the street from over 00:20:53.789 --> 00:20:56.640 the water tower It was great for toboggans. It 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:59.039 was great. And then in the summertime, it was 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:08.400 taken over by motorcycles. I mean, there were 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:10.559 just guys that were going up that hill because 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:12.940 it was laid out perfectly. It was very steep. 00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:14.920 It's like a plateau on top that you could take 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:17.460 these steep hills up and it got a lot of use. 00:21:17.700 --> 00:21:20.019 So the "Tabletop," I just remember calling it. 00:21:20.019 --> 00:21:23.119 Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Good memories. Okay. Again, 00:21:23.180 --> 00:21:24.839 the name of this podcast is "Hangin' Out with 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:26.660 Bob." I'm your host, Bob Edholm. And I'm with 00:21:26.660 --> 00:21:28.940 my two guests and my brothers, Dave and Tom Edholm 00:21:28.940 --> 00:21:35.180 And the last topic I want to bring up, 00:21:35.180 --> 00:21:37.920 um, I think it's be kind of fun. Well, we're 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:41.319 all Boomers. Um, Dave and I are pretty close 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:44.000 in age. I'm 71 and Dave will be 70 in November. 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:47.160 Whoa. Uh, but Tom was, he's a, he's a younger, 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:49.740 he's a BABY Baby Boomer. He was born in 62. 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:52.869 Whoa. So there's nine and a half years between 00:21:52.869 --> 00:21:54.789 him and I. So we might have different favorite 00:21:54.789 --> 00:21:57.589 memories of growing up, or favorite things, I 00:21:57.589 --> 00:21:59.369 guess. What I wanted to ask, and we don't have 00:21:59.369 --> 00:22:01.930 to go in order, we can just bring up stuff like 00:22:01.930 --> 00:22:05.130 favorite places to hang out, favorite teams, 00:22:05.549 --> 00:22:09.109 favorite bands, favorite TV shows, radio stations, 00:22:09.410 --> 00:22:11.990 the kinds of things that we remember while we 00:22:11.990 --> 00:22:14.509 were growing up. I think you might have mentioned 00:22:14.509 --> 00:22:17.509 already, Dave, or Tom did, Apache Plaza was a 00:22:17.509 --> 00:22:20.740 real popular place for kids. It was in an area 00:22:20.740 --> 00:22:23.559 where you had kids from Heights, Northeast Minneapolis, 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:26.220 St. Anthony, New Brighton, so you'd see a lot 00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:28.660 of kids there on weekends. It was a good place 00:22:28.660 --> 00:22:30.619 to go and see people and you could just, you 00:22:30.619 --> 00:22:32.880 know, walk around and try to stay out of trouble, 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:35.839 I guess. It was always fun to have special events 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:38.160 there like trailers, you know, you could hitch 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:40.539 your cars and people would go in there and sit 00:22:40.539 --> 00:22:42.460 down inside those trailers and people would kick 00:22:42.460 --> 00:22:45.579 you out until you get lost and have special events. 00:22:45.980 --> 00:22:48.440 But that's one place I thought of, Apache was 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:51.019 a great place. There weren't places in Heights 00:22:51.019 --> 00:22:53.940 that I remember specifically hanging out until 00:22:53.940 --> 00:22:57.180 I got older. Like, McDonald's was fun, but I 00:22:57.180 --> 00:22:58.839 didn't really drive until I was in high school. 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:00.680 So it's not, you just, I needed to walk there 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:03.220 and hang out, but. And Chatham Road, cause we 00:23:03.220 --> 00:23:05.720 ended up going to Columbia. It seemed like, I 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:08.140 don't know, you know, we lived a long distance 00:23:08.140 --> 00:23:11.140 from any place on, like, Central, you know, which 00:23:11.140 --> 00:23:14.150 was obviously. I think a lot of kids hung out 00:23:14.150 --> 00:23:16.990 at places on Central, but we were a long distance 00:23:16.990 --> 00:23:20.049 from there. Apache was probably even closer. 00:23:21.289 --> 00:23:24.049 Yep. Yeah, Apache and Silver Lake Beach, obviously, 00:23:24.589 --> 00:23:26.910 was, at least when I was growing up, was real 00:23:26.910 --> 00:23:28.910 popular. I think the beach got more, you know, 00:23:28.930 --> 00:23:30.789 the beach wasn't always open when we were kids. 00:23:31.210 --> 00:23:33.150 I don't think it became a beach till I was like 00:23:33.150 --> 00:23:36.630 about a freshman in high school in 1968 or something. 00:23:37.049 --> 00:23:39.170 It wasn't, but once the public beach was there, then 00:23:39.170 --> 00:23:41.529 it got pretty popular. How about, what do you 00:23:41.529 --> 00:23:44.309 remember for TV shows. What were the shows you 00:23:44.309 --> 00:23:46.230 remember growing up looking forward to? Because 00:23:46.230 --> 00:23:49.589 we didn't have cable. We couldn't stream shows. 00:23:49.609 --> 00:23:51.170 We had to watch them when they were on or we 00:23:51.170 --> 00:23:53.569 didn't see them. What were things that must see? 00:23:53.569 --> 00:23:56.809 What popped into my mind immediately was at lunch. 00:23:57.390 --> 00:24:02.529 "Lunch with Casey" and then "Felix the Cat." That 00:24:02.529 --> 00:24:07.490 was playing when we lived on Chatham. Wasn't 00:24:07.490 --> 00:24:10.309 there a "Hercules" cartoon? I think there was. 00:24:11.339 --> 00:24:15.319 "Davey and Goliath." What were some of the cartoons, 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:19.880 Tom? "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids." That was 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:23.759 a little later. I mean, I obviously remember 00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:27.000 "Looney Tunes," obviously it was very popular. 00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:29.400 What I remember, I was pretty young. I don't 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:32.460 even know if I was in school yet, but the "Mel 00:24:32.460 --> 00:24:35.720 Jass Matinee." Oh, sure, after Casey. After Casey 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:39.920 Jones. I think it was always on. with the folks, 00:24:39.980 --> 00:24:44.460 but I also remember seeing "Star Trek" when I first 00:24:44.460 --> 00:24:47.079 came into syndication. It was on every day at 00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:49.440 five o 'clock. I watched that before dinner. 00:24:49.980 --> 00:24:53.700 Yes, I do remember that. 68-ish or something. 00:24:54.200 --> 00:25:00.700 something like that. And still watch that occasionally. 00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:04.079 Today you know yeah it's uh it's still all over 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:06.500 the place which is we watch it every night when 00:25:06.500 --> 00:25:09.579 you think about it you know yeah um and then 00:25:09.579 --> 00:25:12.240 the variety shows "Smothers Brothers" and "Sonny 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:14.660 and Cher" and stuff like that laughter remember 00:25:14.660 --> 00:25:16.660 laughing all the bands all the bands would come 00:25:16.660 --> 00:25:19.059 on it's all of it the beat is that's how i got 00:25:19.059 --> 00:25:23.740 into music yeah "Batman" was huge because 00:25:23.740 --> 00:25:26.779 every, you know, there weren't choices. So every, 00:25:26.859 --> 00:25:29.720 I swear every kid in your class watched "Batman." 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:33.240 So you all had a point of reference. You'd all 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:36.079 discuss the latest "Batman" episode. Sure. And 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:38.220 also growing up, one of my, one of the things 00:25:38.220 --> 00:25:40.759 I remember most would be going to sleep and the 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:44.019 old man was always up late, you know, and you 00:25:44.019 --> 00:25:46.279 know, you'd just be dozing off and tonight you 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:52.779 would start. Yes. Yep, our dad was a bit of an 00:25:52.779 --> 00:25:58.200 insomniac. He didn't sleep much, but yeah, that 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:00.859 was also obviously big back in the day. I remember 00:26:00.859 --> 00:26:04.160 watching "I Spy" with him too. That was like a 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:07.200 late night drama or whatever. I remember watching 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:11.220 that with dad. The one TV memory that I have 00:26:11.220 --> 00:26:15.240 of that house is very real to me. I was absent 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:17.579 the day that John F. Kennedy got shot. Oh, I 00:26:17.579 --> 00:26:20.099 didn't know that. I was literally watching. Because 00:26:20.099 --> 00:26:22.640 I was laying on the couch I was watching as the 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:25.880 world turns with mom when Walter Cronkite actually 00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:29.880 broke in and that was yeah, that's I mean that's 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:32.579 always I remember that day just vividly and then 00:26:32.579 --> 00:26:36.839 we watched TV for like four days. Yeah, Tom your 00:26:36.839 --> 00:26:38.900 birthday was just a couple days before that. 00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:42.599 I remember seeing Bobby Kennedy's stuff on TV. 00:26:44.019 --> 00:26:46.859 I was actually in school at Highland. We got 00:26:46.859 --> 00:26:50.200 sent home. I remember they played the Each room 00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:52.940 had a speaker above the teacher's desk and they 00:26:52.940 --> 00:26:56.019 just put in like CCO radio or CBS News. And I 00:26:56.019 --> 00:26:58.180 remember the look on my teacher's face when they 00:26:58.180 --> 00:27:02.500 talked about Kennedy being assassinated. It was 00:27:02.500 --> 00:27:06.480 something, it was something. Definitely. This 00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:09.299 might depend on our age difference too, but what 00:27:09.299 --> 00:27:11.279 was your favorite radio station, Tom, when you 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:14.140 were listening? Oh boy, probably KDWB back in 00:27:14.140 --> 00:27:17.460 the day. We didn't have FM early at all. What 00:27:17.460 --> 00:27:20.440 was KQ? like when you were a teenager? I remember 00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:25.799 listening to it occasionally, but not as much 00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:31.480 as, you know, KDWB. That and WDGY, 00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:35.640 I think, was a rock star back then, too. KQ 00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:39.839 was KQRS. don't remember that but um and 00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:42.779 then KSTP had some Top 40 for a while and right 00:27:42.779 --> 00:27:44.859 there were three or four I think top 40s days 00:27:44.859 --> 00:27:48.240 and it was all am yes i mean fm was slowly coming 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:51.380 into but you know car radios only had yeah so 00:27:51.380 --> 00:27:53.619 that's one thing i remember too growing up a 00:27:53.619 --> 00:27:58.180 lot was the on as far as radio goes was uh Dad 00:27:58.180 --> 00:28:01.880 always had the Twins. Oh, sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah. 00:28:02.059 --> 00:28:08.660 Yeah. No TV. Well, they would. They did televise 00:28:08.660 --> 00:28:13.039 more games. But yeah, I remember the radio. WCCO 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:15.279 had virtually every team that we would follow. 00:28:15.660 --> 00:28:19.200 The Gophers. Yes. Football and basketball. I 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:21.500 don't know if hockey was on WCCO. I don't remember 00:28:21.500 --> 00:28:23.579 that. Right. But football and basketball for 00:28:23.579 --> 00:28:26.359 sure. And the Twins and the Vikings and. Yep. 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:31.960 Yep. Stars. We didn't have NBA growing up. It 00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:35.299 didn't come till much later. Well, but I do remember 00:28:35.299 --> 00:28:40.619 watching the Lakers and the Celtics a lot. ABC 00:28:40.619 --> 00:28:47.079 would show Sunday games. That was different back 00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:50.140 then. And then Tommy, well, Tommy would remember, 00:28:50.460 --> 00:28:54.140 we didn't even have a color TV until like the 00:28:54.400 --> 00:29:00.339 maybe 72 or 73. That's how we got by. And our 00:29:00.339 --> 00:29:05.200 TVs didn't have remotes. Boomers can remember 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:06.839 this, but I can remember, you know, you have 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:08.640 to get up and turn and click it to a certain 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:11.900 channel and hit, you had to worry about antennas. 00:29:11.980 --> 00:29:13.599 You know, your reception wasn't always good. 00:29:13.619 --> 00:29:15.900 The picture would suck and you just. We had not 00:29:15.900 --> 00:29:18.640 an uncle, Aunt Barbara and Uncle Dan had color 00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:21.500 TV. Yeah. And I remember it was I remember watching 00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:24.119 a hockey game and I thought it was really cool 00:29:24.119 --> 00:29:27.480 to see this. But as I recall, it was like everything 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:29.880 was kind of washed out. The color wasn't real. 00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:32.680 It wasn't high def. It wasn't exactly high def, 00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:34.579 but it was still. You didn't know any better. 00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:36.220 It was still really, really cool to see. Well, 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:38.319 that was dad's rationale. He said that they still 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:40.279 haven't really perfected the color to the tube 00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:42.539 yet, so I'm not going to spend money on it. Yeah. 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:44.920 That was his story. He stuck to it until the 00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:49.079 early 70s. So, yep. But yeah, it was. Bob, I 00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:52.440 remember you would sneak. Did you have a transistor 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.849 radio? Oh, sure sneak that into the bedroom and 00:29:56.849 --> 00:29:59.309 I remember hearing "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the 00:29:59.309 --> 00:30:01.829 Byrds. Yeah thinking that was the coolest thing 00:30:01.829 --> 00:30:04.190 ever I was probably in about fourth grade fifth 00:30:04.190 --> 00:30:06.809 grade or something. So we're about the size of 00:30:06.809 --> 00:30:10.789 a cell phone now, maybe a little thicker. Yeah, 00:30:10.789 --> 00:30:13.049 but about same dimensions and you had to have 00:30:13.049 --> 00:30:15.769 batteries in their batteries and it was strictly 00:30:15.769 --> 00:30:18.430 AM no FM stations You could hear your Top 00:30:18.430 --> 00:30:23.319 40 stuff. So right Uh, yes. Well, the transistor 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:26.420 radio is, um, you know, I had that paper route 00:30:26.420 --> 00:30:29.119 for years, you know, so it was about 10, but, 00:30:29.160 --> 00:30:31.799 um, you know, Star Tribune bags, they would have 00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:35.420 a pouch in the front for your collection. Yes, 00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:38.420 collect. It was the perfect size for, I collect 00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:41.059 210 or whatever it was, you know, for a month 00:30:41.059 --> 00:30:44.819 of paper. But, um, it was perfect size for a 00:30:44.819 --> 00:30:47.059 transistor radio. So when I go do my paper audit 00:30:47.059 --> 00:30:50.160 four in the morning, you know, I'd have it. In 00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:54.440 fact, I had that radio going and left on my paper 00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:55.960 out at, I don't know what it was, five in the 00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:58.720 morning or something like that and turned it 00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:03.400 on and that was the break of news was that Elvis 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:06.559 died. Oh, wow. I remember. Wow. It's just weird. 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:10.519 So that would have been 77. So that was towards 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:12.940 the end of my career. I was like 14 then, so 00:31:12.940 --> 00:31:14.960 I was getting ready to wash dishes somewhere 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:16.720 or something. So that was the end of my paper 00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:20.890 on career. I'll never forget that. And that same 00:31:20.890 --> 00:31:24.089 radio, a few years later, still listening to 00:31:24.089 --> 00:31:28.930 that stinkin' transistor radio was when Lenin 00:31:28.930 --> 00:31:34.170 got shot. While I was 80. I think I graduated 00:31:34.170 --> 00:31:37.980 to a better radio after that. vividly remember 00:31:37.980 --> 00:31:40.079 those two stories coming over. That's interesting. 00:31:40.220 --> 00:31:41.799 I just thinking about that. Do you think anybody 00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:45.339 still has a transistor radio from that era? You 00:31:45.339 --> 00:31:46.720 know, if you're a collector, maybe you do. You 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:48.700 probably find one on eBay. And two, would they 00:31:48.700 --> 00:31:51.480 even work? Yeah. I mean, you can put a battery 00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:53.759 in it, but I would think they would. Those parts 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:56.519 would still work. Sure. Car radio still work. 00:31:57.420 --> 00:32:00.680 As before. Yeah. Long before digital, so. Yes. 00:32:01.180 --> 00:32:04.380 Oh, crazy, crazy. Okay, again, the name of this 00:32:04.380 --> 00:32:06.779 podcast is "Hangin' Out with Bob." I'm your host, 00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:08.720 Bob Edholm, and my two guests are my brothers, 00:32:08.900 --> 00:32:15.680 Dave and Tom Edholm. This is fun, guys. It's 00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:17.359 fun to reminisce. It's always fun to do this. 00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:18.920 And I thought, you know, if I'm going to start 00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:21.240 doing podcasts, I couldn't think of two other 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:23.019 guys I'd rather have with me the first time. 00:32:23.059 --> 00:32:25.960 So I appreciate your being with me today. So 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:28.500 thanks for coming by. It's fun. Again, the name 00:32:28.500 --> 00:32:31.359 of this podcast is "Hangin' Out with Bob." I think 00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:33.279 everybody has a story to tell. And I believe 00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:35.680 most people like to tell stories and talk about 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:37.380 the things that they like to do and the things 00:32:37.380 --> 00:32:40.299 that interest them. And when you ask people the 00:32:40.299 --> 00:32:41.940 right questions, you're going to learn a lot 00:32:41.940 --> 00:32:44.319 of things about them. So I've got a lot of people 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:46.640 in mind that I like to have on my podcast as 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:49.799 future guests. So people that family, friends. 00:32:50.410 --> 00:32:52.910 people that I grew up with, people I worked with, 00:32:53.109 --> 00:32:55.410 people I've drunk beer with. It'd be fun just 00:32:55.410 --> 00:32:57.049 to connect with some of those people. And I think 00:32:57.049 --> 00:32:58.349 they're already aware that I'm going to be getting 00:32:58.349 --> 00:33:00.710 in touch with them. But again, to listeners out 00:33:00.710 --> 00:33:03.190 there, thank you for hanging with us. I'm Bob 00:33:03.190 --> 00:33:06.089 Edholm. And thanks for listening. And we hope 00:33:06.089 --> 00:33:08.950 to have you back for the next episode we have. 00:33:12.809 --> 00:33:13.549 Take care.