Anybody remember lights on your antenna?

They just put some antennas with the lights on the truck at the farm. One of the employees had them sitting at home and they figured it was time for a working CB so he brought them in.

 

The set I have has about 15 or 20 lights on each and they are encased in an amber colored sleeve.CLASSY baby!!! I'll probably do like I used to do with them,mount them as gingerbread only and mount my good ant to actually use.AHH LIKES GINGERBREAD,AHH DO.

 

Gingerbread??? Umm...what's that?

 

You've seen how a gingerbread house is decorated ain't you...Old chicken truckers called chrome,lights and other baubles that either flashed,honked,rang or shined as "gingerbread".And I LIKE it.

 

I copy that, hand.

So back in the day, chicken truckers used to have more than just a light at the top of the antenna that'd come on when ya key up? They went all the way up the antenna? Am I catchin' that right?

 

Lot's of guy's use to take a 8-10" long skinny flourescent light bulb and tape it to the antenna....bling bling. I never seen any "rope type" lighting used for this.

 

J.C. Whitney used to sell them...Their kind of like a Firestick(and have about the same amount of give when in the wind) but they have a semi transparent amber casing and lights that run from top to bottom with a single hot wire hook up for the lights and they ground just like any other ant..They work off of a switch instead of keying up....I used to see a lot of them, but I haven't seen any in many moons now....I lost the set I had for awhile and I checked on Ebay for another set( like I really needed them.If I had,I wouldn't have lost the first set) and never seen any come up for sale.I found mine in a old toolbox again a few months back and was tickled to death.It doesn't take much to make me happy I guess.lol To be honest,I think they were intended for custom vans back when everybody HAD to have a flashy van back in the late 70s early 80s

 

Having lived in the vicinity of which you currently live and now living in the area you once did, I can relate completely.

 

LOL...We're in bad shape ain't we...Aw...we'll make it tho' if something don't eat us first.

 

Yup. Just gotta watch out for that Wabash River Monster.

I can't find the pic I was gonna accompany this post with. Anyone who's ever been to Boot City in Terre Haute would know what I'm referring to...