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To: Bitsy
LOL! I was born in 1946. My earliest childhood memories are watching my grandmother's B&W 13 inch Admiral television...especially baseball...with the single camera upstairs behind homeplate. I can still 'see' Willie Mays making that running basket catch in deep centerfield with his back to the infield. And, Warren Spahn and White Ford.

After the World Series was over, we'd run outside and play catch. IN THE SNOW! {Buffalo, NY}

Yes, the 50's seemed so peaceful...but then again, I wasn't a teenager until 1959. LOL!

88 posted on 03/03/2008 11:46:44 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: DCPatriot

Yes, the 50’s seemed so peaceful...but then again, I wasn’t a teenager until 1959. LOL!
So you’re the person who shattered our ‘50’s peace when you became a teenager! :). It is so good to have those memories of a “gentler time”. The kids today can’t even imagine what a great time that was. We were allowed to be kids and our environment was safe. Now parents have to worry about their kids playing on the front lawn without a pervert scooping them up. I didn’t have TV till I was 11 when we finally moved to a small city on the Mississippi gulf coast - then it was the 13” B&W like everone else. We later got a color TV which my father was dead set against because he said color TV would never work. Did your parents buy the color thing that fit over the B & W TV that had the blue for sky the pink middle and the green bottom for grass? I miss Ed Sullivan!!!


96 posted on 03/03/2008 12:12:02 PM PST by Bitsy
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