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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Who remembers cranking the winder to ring the operator to make a call from your wall mounted phone?

Who remembers phone party lines?

Who remembers Kukla, Fran, and Olie?

Who remembers the iceman dropping off 5 lb blocks of ice for your icebox?

Who remembers the junk man coming around in his horse-drawn wagon to collect your junk?

Who remembers using a hammer to smash lumps of coal for your furnace?

Who remembers the coal man dumping coal down you home coal chute?

Who remembers the first color TV broadcast by RCA’s three color system?

Who remembers not wanting to be seen in public without a suit and tie?


204 posted on 12/09/2025 1:39:27 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
Who remembers the first color TV broadcast by RCA’s three color system?

I do. The guy a few houses down worked for RCA on the color TV system, and he had a prototype color set on temporary loan. January 1, 1954, he called my parents and said to get to their house at a certain time. I had no idea why, but we got to watch the Rose Bowl parade in color. Very few people got to see it in color.

247 posted on 12/09/2025 3:35:27 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Charlie Kirk: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine")
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