[Tax-chick]

Most people got up to change the channel on their TV's.

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.!

[RockinRight]

I do find it funny that people in smaller cities and such considered it a worthwhile expense to buy a TV when there was only one channel to watch.

[willgolfforfood]

Yeah, but you had PBS, "Guilligan's Island" on the second channel, and "The Beverly Hillbillies" on the third channel.

Now really, why in He77 would you even bother to get up and change the channel, if those were your choices. You might as well just watch the channel you're on.

[Renegade]

Better reception if you put a flag of tinfoil on the antennae!

[hinckley buzzard]

For years, color TV was the biggest consumer tech innov- ation.

Cars didn't have seat belts but they did have tailfins and double headlights starting in 1957(except for Cadillac which had tail fins about 1952 if I recall.)

Greeting cards made jokes about A-bombs, an interesting form of counterphobic mechanism.