[boxerblues]

I was born in 1949 and my parents had a tv before I was born.

They may have been around but not very common place. We did not get our first TV until the mid 60's

[Preachin']

"They may have been around but not very common place. We did not get our first TV until the mid 60's"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television

Regular network broadcasting began in the United States in 1946, and television became common in American homes by the middle 1950s.

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That's pretty cool. I did not know TV went back to the 1940s.

[PUGACHEV]

My Dad had a TV from the 40's that I inherited. With a massive cabinet and a small round screen, it must have been one of the first TVs you could buy. I remember my Dad telling me that the Dumont Network broadcast a big band concert from the top of the Shorham Hotel in Washington D.C., and that was about the only thing on back then.