Thanks for sharing your memories. I feel lucky to have been born in ‘47, with a childhood in the 50’s. I can still remember when the first family on the street got a color TV.
Heck! I remember when the first family on my street got a black and white TV!
I lived in the Central Valley of CA, and we couldn’t receive TV signals there until they built our own stations. The mountain ranges blocked transmissions from San Francisco and LA. In 1952, they brought in dozens of TV sets and a special feed to the Memorial Auditorium downtown, and the townspeople could all go down town and watch the Democrat and Republican Conventions leading to the nominations of Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower. Admission was free.
Ordinary residents did not own personal TVs until about 1954, however. My family got one in 1955.