“telephones or TV”
You’re forgetting party lines and the very small TV screens with the rabbit ears you had to whack every so often.
> “telephones or TV”
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> You’re forgetting party lines and the very small TV screens
> with the rabbit ears you had to whack every so often.
:) :)
Yeah, we got a TV in 1954. It was an Admiral. It came in a heavy walnut cabinet with a phonograph and a big old tube radio. The early equivalent of an “entertainment center.”
The TV never really worked well. Mostly all we got was the tuning pattern, you know, the circle with the bulls-eye and the cross-bars and the 440Hz tone. I remember my dad trying to fix the thing on more than a few occasions. He actually got it to work from time to time, and we were able to see things like John Cameron Swayzey’s news show, and Sid Ceasar’s Show of Shows.
We got our first telephone in 1957, but it was actually a private line. Imagine that! Maybe it’s because my dad waited so long to get one.
:)