Do you remember the first TV you ever watched? For me, it was a neighbor’s B&W about 1949. What I recall was similar to what Arnold watched on Green Acres, a posse chasing bandits with hooves kaclopping, then the bandits with the same sound effects plus gunfire.
We had radio which gave us Jack Benny and Rochester and Mel Blanc. Also, Gunsmoke with no boring posse chases. The Shadow provided mystery and some “magic” for the imagination.
Instead of walking, we rode our bikes everywhere: to the movies on Saturday (parked them behind the library); to the lake with our rifles on the handlebars; and to school.
I still remember driving home from my Aunt’s house in Tampa to Jacksonville on a Saturday night with Gun smoke on the car radio.
Those were good times... First time watching TV was ‘51 - we had one of the first TV’s in our neighborhood.