Recently, I wrote an article about the things I was here before and remember when we first used them such as polio vaccine that literally abolished polio. TV dinners, microwave ovens and color TV ... someone brought to my attention there are a lot of things that have come and gone during my lifetime. 

I remember when transistor radios first came on the market and teenagers and grown-ups alike went wild over them. They hung around for some years and we all loved them. Not much bigger than a pack of cigarettes and you could really pick up local radio stations. I doubt if you walked into all the big stores — Target, Walmart, Sam's or any of the others — and you could not find a transistor radio.   Â