“… some kids microwaved some junk food and then sat on the couch with a TV remote”
I’m at the tail end of boomer grew up in NY suburbs
I didn’t even know anyone who went home to an empty house. Not only was mom there but everyone had siblings. A lot of them
I didn’t see my first microwave until 1982. And my father had everything new. He was big up in the Motorola exec world
So I call BS
The push for the home market was started in the 60s and they were getting more common during the 70s, and of course the 1980s.
“Sales volume of 40,000 units for the U.S. industry in 1970 grew to one million by 1975.” “By 1972, Litton (Litton Atherton Division, Minneapolis) introduced two new microwave ovens, priced at $349 and $399, to tap into the market estimated at $750 million by 1976”