10-Four, Good Buddy Board Game

Don't laugh! The radios were the cellular phones of the time when an actual mobile telephone was prohibitively expensive. I have two, a handheld portable and an in-car type. Both still work and there is plenty of traffic still among the truckers on the highways.

Reminds me, there's a photograph in one of my mother's albums of me as an infant wearing big 'can' headphones, holding a CB base station mic sitting up on a counter next to a 'bench model' CB radio...

Next to disco, CB’s were the hottest fad of the 70s. Everyone either had one or wanted one. I had a “base station” that was basically a toy but could pull in some CB channels. I was able to use it to talk to truckers and other randos— a good thing for a 10 year old to be doing...