Transistor is Sixty!

At one point, the group talked about doing our version of "Transistor Sister" ["the boys sure love her a lot / you can't resist her / at 15,000 watts"] but decided not to. We already have to explain what photographic film is when we play "Kodachrome."

Wow, 60 years.

Little known fact: the "tranny" made pop music and, ultimately, the British Invasion of the 1960s possible when early transistor radios were [temporarily] exempt from the radio/TV license because the law was written to say that the appliance was plugged into the wall. Rock 'n roll and tax evasion; gotta love it.

As long as I'm into history, the mini-skirt was also a tax-evasion device. Children's clothes were either exempt from sales tax [or were taxed at a lower rate]. Children's dresses were defined as those with skirts no longer than a certain length [7.5 inches as I remember]. A clothing designer named Mary Quant put out a line of very cheap dresses/skirts for young women exactly at that length. For those of us who spent the late 60s in the UK, this was our very favorite example of tax evasion.

Hmmmm; mini-skirts; HatterDon in his early 20s; sigh.