The "From The Road" thread got me wondering who else had a CB handle back in their heyday. Mine was Superlemon. Sounds kinda ghey through a modern filter, NTTIAWWT, but it was the 70s, and I was 10 or thereabouts.
My username here. Back when I was on the road as a Team Suzuki MX mechanic I was given that nickname by another team mechanic after a rather drunken night at a hotel in Monterey (we were actually there for the original GSXR release at Laguna Seca). After a few too many shots of whiskey, Ray Tetherton said that I was "hoopin' and hollerin'" (and some tennis shoes might have even got tossed into the hotel pool). Hooper became my CB handle after that.
Back in the early to mid 70s, I had one and my first handle was "Astral Traveller". I was into Yes, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer type music and Astral Traveller was a Yes song. I didn't keep the handle for very long though as I was chatting one night to a trucker, he though I said "Asshole Traveler". I changed it the next day to Powerhouse.....since I was an Electrician.
Didn’t have one, but there was a dude somewhere near our house that went by “the Yankton slave master” and spewed all types of racist bullshit. I always wondered who the fuck he was talking to. There wasn’t a black person in a 50 mile radius.
LOL! The PA cops I knew used to f@ck with the dopes running raw and hard through the keystone state. My dad (a cop) used "Coal Hammer"
I sold and repaired CB radios at Radio Shack in those days. I never settled on a handle, just made one up for each conversation.
I don't remember my dads, but back in the 70's mine was "Little Harry" based on being his son. That nickname stuck with me for years.