[Windflier]

I remember this well...

Another day and time. A different country, even.

[muir_redwoods]

Cheech: “What’re you watching , man”
Chong: “It’s a movie about Indians man but its really boring”

[Ezekiel]

Anyone remember the "Movies Til Dawn" on ch. 5 (LA)?

Godzilla, Rodan, Monster X, Mothra... Those were the days, er nights.

I don't remember if Cal Worthington ran his "spots" at those hours, though, lol.

[jy8z]

Can any one remember what this was really used for?

[I still care]

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” - Hartley

What I remember was the sign - off - the national anthem with a waving flag. If you got up early the first program on was a very short morning devotion - usually by a pastor or such.

A different country. We have not improved.

[I still care]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Aq6fhIVzk

Can’t believe I found it.

Channel 11 WPIX (in NYC we were rich in TV fare; we had SEVEN VHF stations - ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and then 3 other stations that showed a lot of old movies and shows.) I often closed on channel 11 because they had a lot of old movies late at night.

As a child I was a movieholic, would get up and sneak downstairs and watch tv and eat out of the fridge all night while everyone else slept. Never needed much sleep.

[jmacusa]

Yes it was a different time and country. There was a feeling of optimism ,innocence even , a ‘’can-do!’’ kind of spirit and a sense of purpose to life with the promise of new and better times to come. A nation and a people sure of their place in the world as liberty loving people and the protector of freedom for those around the world who aspired for it. An America so unlike today as to almost never have existed.

As I move on to late middle age I think back to those days of fifty years ago. I did grow up on Beaver Cleaver's street, or close to it. I lived with my family in a large 3 bedroom, 2 bath Victorian home with a white Pickett fence and my neighbors had similar style homes and you knew each other. Chestnut trees grew on my street and in summertime they would shade the street from the sun. That is until they developed a fungus of some sort and were removed. We had the metal milk box on the porch and the milk truck would come with those thirty ounce glass bottles. There was a guy with a truck selling and calling out, ''STRAWBERRIES TODAY! FRESH STRAWBERRIES and PEACHES!! And I remember the Fuller Brush man too. I remember our family doctor, Doctor Harvey. Doc Harvey had been a medic in WW2 and he made house calls. That America has vanished. I miss those long ago days so much.

[Pelham]

and let’s not forget the ‘blue dot’ in the center of the tube as the television shut down.