My older boys (when they were 10 an 6) had asked me once what my favorite Saturday TV kids show was when I was their age. I replied "I didnt have a TV until I was 12. So my favorite kid's Saturday shows on the RADIO were Tom Corbett of Space Patrol, the Long Ranger, Froggy and His Magic Twanger (Big John and Sparkie), and the Inner Sanctum (a creepy open door sound at the start and finish of each show).
My sons were stunned. Radio? "That's only music, Dad!" It was too hard to believe there was no color TV or cable and entertainment on the RADIO when and I was a kid!
I had forgotten about the screen (blue on top and green on the bottom)! Our neighbor bragged about having a color TV with this screen!
I do recall before KRBC-TV in Abilene, TX started programming they broadcast a test pattern ( Indian Chief with concentric circles) for about 4 hours each evening.
People had coffee and cake parties while they watched the TV test pattern!
do recall before KRBC-TV in Abilene, TX started programming they broadcast a test pattern ( Indian Chief with concentric circles) for about 4 hours each evening. People had coffee and cake parties while they watched the TV test pattern!Glad to know it wasn't just a wstcoast thing. My wifes family got a TV in 53and sat for hours watching the "Test pattern".Their program was...Ta Da... WRESTLING. Some things never change. Our first TV came second hand from her mother the year we got married, 1957.
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----and the Inner Sanctum (a creepy open door sound at the start and finish of each show)."Forgot that wonderful one! Loved it! There was just one radio in the house, and we'd gather near it to listen. No FM, either!
My mother was Canadian, and every Christmas either she would call her family in Montreal, or they would call her. It was a family event, and nothing was more intriguing than to hear the operator say "All the circuits are busy!" We'd all say, hushed ---- 'the circuits are busy'! We were so impressed.
Have we ever come a long way!! When I've been in China, I'd look at an old person and wonder just what they witnessed during their life. I knew they had been through turmoil that I couldn't imagine. I guess I'm now approaching that age where I realize that I've witnessed amazing things. Not life threatening turmoil, but just the changes that have happened over time. What an exciting, sometimes fearful, but always changing times.