Tried to save a buck....didn't work out....

[PBJ2500CTD]

We had a wired remote control on a brand spankin' new HUGE 20 inch 1957 Motorola TV. Push big clunky button, electric motor drove a cogged belt and mechanically turned the tuner knob to the next channel. A lot of good that was as you still had to get up and go to the TV to fine tune the channel for the best reception. Definitely got a good workout watching TV. No couch potatoes back then. Of course you had to wait for the aircraft to pass over due to the ghosting of the picture, or the Ford driving within four blocks of your TV creating all kinds of static...non resistor spark plugs. Missed a lot of key parts of the show or punch lines.

 

[TFucili]

Add a can of "tuner cleaner" to the list.

 

[fest3er]

No milk chute, he would leave them on the porch in a metal crate (plastic was not invented yet). ...

I may still have one of those metal crates *with* bottles, if it didn't get tossed in the trash when I was (essentially) evicted from Dad's house after he died. I even rode around with the milkman once on his delivery route. (Unthinkable today, of course.)

One of my brothers came home with a B&W TV with audio-spectrum remote control. Toss a clean-ish copper penny at it and it would change the channel; zinc pennies never worked. Took a lot of pennies to find a show worth watching. (He would watch hockey and basketball games with sound coming from the radio; radio announcers were much more enthusiastic.)

 

[Mikey-KE7LBB]

I'm almost 41 and have 95% of these same memories!!

I'm betting that my parents were pretty much broke when I was growing up.

 

[jhenderson]

I'm almost 41 and have 95% of these same memories!!

I'm betting that my parents were pretty much broke when I was growing up.

Being poor today isn’t what it was when I grew up.

 

[PBJ2500CTD]

Being poor today isn’t what it was when I grew up.

Amen to that! Couldn't afford to pay attention...bartered with the neighbors for services and goods.

 

[Mikey-KE7LBB]

Being poor today isn’t what it was when I grew up.

Nothing like remembering what other people had... I grew up on school lunch, and potatoes cooked with whatever dead animal was in the freezer. Sometimes, mom wouldn't eat so we had enough.

Is that what you're talking about??

 

[mwilson]

Duplicate..