As far as age goes, at 85, I am likely the oldest on this forum. My grandparents Kansas house did not have running water as late as 1950. There was a pump near the back door and an out-house (toilet) at the far rear of their property. To bathe, they set a large metal tub on the kitchen floor on Friday night and filled it by carrying in buckets of water from the pump. A bath was a special occasion. I remember our first telephone. It was after World War Two and I was probably in the first or second grade. When I decided to try it out, I was startled to hear a woman on the phone ask, "Number please." when I lifted it off the carrier. I quickly replaced it and got away from it. In the 1970s, my sister moved to Boone, NC, renting an old house. It had a wood-burning oven with the water-heater beside it. The pipes from the water heater ran into the oven, so the heat in the oven heated the household water. Each morning, my brother-in-law would start a fire in the oven to heat the water for our morning washing up. In 1974, when I was teaching Public Health Nursing at Western Carolina University, many of the houses in the rural areas there, still used that style of wood-burning stove and water-heater.
The cellphone has not only replaced the tape-recorder, VCR, film camera (I had some beauties), desk-top computer, dictionary, library and other ancient things I can't think of at the moment, but a lot of history that went with them.
Things have changed and I think that is the beauty of the CB1100. It reminds us of one of the most beautiful of those things we enjoyed when the motorcycle first began to appear around the world.
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