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homeless · 12-21-2013, 06:49 AM

Before the Internet all we use to have was just TV!! Life was much simpler then....
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Thebaldeagle · 12-21-2013, 07:17 AM

Back when the term "family" really meant something! We spent time with the family actually talking out loud, not not texting!

Tha_Rooster · 12-21-2013, 08:18 AM

It seems like we did just fine before cell phone. Now just to go to WM I ask my DW do you have you phone so I can find you.

greezykid · 12-21-2013, 08:23 AM

Don't forget the good ole radio days.

WAGM · 12-23-2013, 05:10 PM

I remember in the early 40s we had no electric yet, so we had to watch TV by oil lamp light.

See yall in the funnies, Warren

Flair30h · 12-23-2013, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by WAGM

I remember in the early 40s we had no electric yet, so we had to watch TV by oil lamp light. See yall in the funnies, Warren

you had a tv that ran on oil ?

sdennislee · 12-23-2013, 05:47 PM

The Good Ole days weren't always that good, I had to walk uphill in the snow to school both ways.

Dunner · 12-23-2013, 08:21 PM

I remember when late night TV was only a test pattern... in B/W only

sdennislee · 12-24-2013, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Dunner

I remember when late night TV was only a test pattern... in B/W only

And they played the National Anthem when the test pattern came on

Dunner · 12-24-2013, 12:37 AM

Can I still get a test pattern to adjust the colors on my kinda new HDTV?

focker · 12-24-2013, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Dunner

Can I still get a test pattern to adjust the colors on my kinda new HDTV?

This would do the trick: Amazon.com: Digital Video Essentials: HD Basics [Blu-ray]: Joe Kane: Movies & TV

Dunner · 12-24-2013, 01:22 AM

I think ~$40 used is a little more than I want to pay. Think I'll just set it to what looks good for flesh tones. That's all the matters to me. Thanks anyway.

LeeRevell · 12-25-2013, 02:04 PM

I remember my first look at color TV. An Aunt had it. Colors were horrendous and way too bright! I preferred black and white. ;-)

njs42 · 12-25-2013, 02:36 PM

The first TV I ever saw belonged to a neighbor. We lived in a project and the houses (duplexes) were back to back with wood porches. The neighbor dragged the TV to the porch, it had an eight inch screen. it flickered and rolled in a 3'X4' veneer cabinet with wood scroll work on the front covering the speaker behind black cloth.

The kids in the neighbor hood gathered on the common grass area in front of their duplex as he turned on the TV. Someone sliced watermelons and laid them on the ground in front of us and we ate and watched. The juice from the water melons collected on our tummies as we were always without a shirt in the humid summer.

MUst have been about 1947 or so. I wonder what we watched, maybe Howdy Doody?

Until then and after because we did not get a TV until about 1953 we listened to Gunsmoke, The Shadow, The Green Hornet, Big John and Sparky, Inner sanctum, Amos and Andy, Fibber McGee and Molly, Arthur Godfrey and Groucho Marks. We gathered in one room close together and listened together from an off white Silvertone radio, no doubt from Sears and Roebuck, It had a big dial and a long needle pointer on the front.

I remember well that was the winter of the blue snow when the lake froze so fast the frogs were caught jumping in and their legs were stuck above the ice. My dad got the lawn mower out and mowed them and we had frog legs three times a week for the winter. The following summer was not so fortunate our corn got so hot it popped and our cow thought it was snow and froze to death.

Or something like that............