Other people only got one channel, unless their brother stood on top of the TV with an antenna in each hand :-).
And the TV was big enough for him to do that, and weighed 250 lbs.!
A critical thing to remember about the sixties was:
There was Cathy, who'd lived most everywhere,
From Zanzibar to Barclay Square.
Patty had only seen the sights
A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights --
What a crazy pair!
But they were cousins,
Identical cousins all the way.
One pair of matching bookends,
Different as night and day.
Where Cathy adored a minuet,
The Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette,
Our Patty loved to rock and roll,
A hot dog made her lose control --
What a wild duet!
Still, they were cousins,
Identical cousins and you'd find,
They laughed alike, they walked alike,
At times they even talked alike --
You could lose your mind,
When cousins were two of a kind.
Oh yeah no pants- and no shorts except for gym.
I recall it was 6th grade when they changed the rule where I lived (Bethesda, MD). Most everybody wore jeans or casual pants...me I only had slacks (my mother said jeans were farmer pants and she wasn't going to buy them). Of course alot of the time I wore homemade clothes so I already was the weird one lol
--Most people got up to change the channel on their TV's.--
Behind the TV, a box of extra tubes. On top of the TV, a pair of pliars or wrench to turn the channels and a screwdriver to adjust the colors.
Remember "reverberators" which gave you fake stereo on the AM radio?
That's what caused the baby boom.
People had kids so someone could change the channel for them.
The reproduction rate has gone down considerably since the invention of the remote control.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
It still does.
And had to go outside to turn the antenna pole for better reception. Ah, those were the days! I'd trade all our modern conveniences to go back there. One more thing. I was watching a documentary about the assassination of JFK and there was a courtroom scene in it. The people were smoking cigarettes in the courtroom, durring trial!!! And no one complained!
The sixties were when popular music transitioned from AM to FM. Remember when FM was a big deal? Most radio recievers were AM only. FM receivers were a lot more expensive than AM and most FM programming was “long hair”, meaning classical, since the kind of people who owned FM recievers in the 1950’s were the kind of people who own Bose Wave receivers today, older and more prosperous. Technology made FM receivers competitive with AM and rock migrated to the FM band.