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Ted J 
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 8:58am |
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Could and would have said this??
When I was your age, I had to walk 10 feet through shag carpet to change the TV channel.
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JoeM(GA)
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 9:25am |
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I tell my daughter, I WAS the remote, no telling how many times I had to get up out of the floor and change the channel and or the volume, and to move the tinfoil on the rabbit ears just a hair!
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FloydKS
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 9:49am |
Yea, I think us kids did some remote work too... found out I needed glasses cause I always sat close to the TV in order to see... finally Dad & Mom asked why... and the other detail was family watching cars on highway half mile away and I was asking "you can actually see the cars down there"
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thendrix
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 9:50am |
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Here too. Wasn't shag carpet though. It was hardwood. The screen rolled on ours until it warmed up so we had to listen to an inning or so of the Braves game before we could watch it.
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Scott B
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 10:09am |
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Red Bank
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 10:12am |
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And we had to go outside and pick up the antenna pole and twist it around to tune in other stations while somebody inside yelled when the picture was clear
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 10:45am |
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shameless dude
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 10:55am |
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I always had to go out and feed the critters! family had a TV, but was seldom watched.
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 1:19pm |
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Didn't have a tv back then, no shag carpet either. Would go to my uncle's house to watch westerns on Saturday night.
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john(MI)
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 1:22pm |
I had to lay on the floor and do the channels, volume and horizontal hold. The horizontal would get so bad I had to stand there moving the knob back and forth to try to keep it steady before Dad would call the TV repair guy. Then I would hang over his shoulder watching him work his miracles. Then I got into electronics and it ended up being my career!
I guess being a remote control pays off sometimes, and that's why I always have the remote!!! 
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Dave H
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 1:38pm |
Oh man those were the good ole days. Seems I can still remember those north winds that blew snow up thru the back flap on the out house and how cold the sears catalogue pages were for the fun part. 
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Darrell G (MN)
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 1:56pm |
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TV, what was that
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 3:00pm |
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Thought we were blessed when dad got a battery powered radio .
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Ken in Texas
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 4:58pm |
How many on the forum remember going up town to pull up a chair on the sidewalk with a bunch of strangers and watch Saturday Night Wrestling on a TV in a store window? Black and white TV and no gittin up to change channels or adjust the volume . Wishin all the time Dad could afford a TV for our living room
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Walker
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 8:44pm |
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I remember all them times the electricity would go out completely and we would have to watch television by candle light.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 9:46pm |
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Ken...we still do that! lol
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iowallis
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Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 10:06pm |
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I was amazed when a nieghborhood friend got a remote controlled TV back in the 70s. Push a button a "click-chunk" the channel would change. The TV looked like a space ship. Of course we could only get 3 channels in our area so wasn't a huge deal for me to get up out of the chair every 1/2 hour to see what was on another channel. Then staying up late when my cousin would come and visit and seeing the "test screen" after the national anthem was played, we knew it was time to go to bed.
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JC-WI
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Posted: 23 Dec 2018 at 2:59am |
I remember a short cartoon film while at my grandparents place on
their first tv, husky woman was baking biscuits that were hard as rock
and using her big brazzier to send the biscuits two at a time into the
german army... and then there were the japs gettin a beating from the
same kind of 'home front' defense... Now, does anyone remember the
Beagle Boys? 
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 23 Dec 2018 at 6:53am |
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When I was fairly young our farm water supply was powered by a windmill in to a big holding tank. Not sure what year but dad put in an electric well pump and we got grandpas color tv. He put a uhf antenna on the windmill tower and we could get all three channels.
When I was in high school a kid (who’s mom worked at tha hardware store) came to school telling of a stereo for sale at the hardware store that was controlled by remote. When school was out that day all the kids went to the store to see it work. It had regular knobs and you could see them turn. We were so impressed. Lol
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DMiller
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Posted: 23 Dec 2018 at 7:10am |
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Still remember my first televised astronaut launch, believe that was Glenn on a B&W TV he in a Mercury Capsule. We were close enough to STL that Dad put up a decent antenna on the side of the house, got FOUR whole channels at first then UHF came out and we had FIVE!!! when the weather was not too bad.
Grandmother would listen to ball games on a old RCA Radio at night, Dad was watching the same game on the tube but she did not care for that said she could see the game better in her mind's eye.
First color tv in '68, then the parents actually got cable as Dad was doing pretty good in the late 70's financially.
Great Aunt's farm when the Old House was still up had a cistern for water supply, came off the house downspouts, when weather was real dry or too cold for liquid water they would get a truckload from town where they got a tank full for $5 and could refill that cistern. All the water was boiled before drinking, kept that in the kitchen in a aluminum pitcher next to the sink after cooled.
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Posted: 23 Dec 2018 at 7:30am |
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In 1980, I moved to the big city to go to college, first trip back home two weeks later and my parents had got their first TV the week I left.
In away it worked out, I skipped TV and went straight to computers.
I first used a computer in 1981.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 23 Dec 2018 at 2:15pm |
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Ted....one day my boss came to work really mad! seems he and his old lady.....oooops….I mean his loving wife left for the week end and their kids threw a party at his house while they was gone. they (the kids) got all snockered up and along with about the same amount of weed, drove their dads Cub Cadet mower in thru the sliding glass doors, then into the living room where they mowed off the shag carpet! LMAO
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JW in MO
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Posted: 23 Dec 2018 at 5:41pm |
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No shag carpet here, all hardwood floors and wood stoves. My grandfather had the first remote control tv I knew of, Zenith, the remote was a military style 90 degree flashlight. If you could get the light to shine on the channel selector it would go up one channel. You still had to get up and turn it on and off and adjust the volume, the flashlight just changed the channel.
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Posted: 23 Dec 2018 at 8:15pm |
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Dad bought a 60 combine in 1954 or 55. He paid for a 80 acres doing custom work. He then bought the first TV in 1956 after getting paid for combining. It didn't work. Dealer couldn't figure it out. He went to another dealer, they brought out an antenna on a 2 wheel trailer. We lived down on the bottom. It had a winch on it and a whole lot of pieces of pipe. They would raise the antenna up, check for signal, then raise it up more. They finally got a signal at 90' up. We came home from country school and got to watch a brand new TV that night that was in the fall of 1957. Next year he bought mom a brand new kitchen table and 6 chairs, pink table top and chrome legs. The furniture store would not guarantee delivery before Christmas, dad picked up the cash and started to walk out. Table and chairs were delivered Dec 24th right on time. Second TV was an Admiral brand with the remote control that turned the channel changer. Shag carpet, we lived on a farm. It would never have been in our house, mom would have been afraid we'd track dirt on it.
Edited by HD6GTOM - 23 Dec 2018 at 8:17pm
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Ted J
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Posted: 24 Dec 2018 at 9:56pm |
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The FUNNY part of this guys.........................this was told by my son to his daughters.
Me, I used to go up to my neighbors to listen to the radio. They had this big one that you could get shortwave from all over the world!!
Remember the radio show "Lights Out". Every week come hades and high water. Used to run home so fast the screen door hadn't even closed all the way. WHY do we listen to something that scares the BeJesus out of us when we're young?
Our first TV was a Philco that weighed a ton and had about a 16 or 18" picture. We had the first 'colored tv ' in the area. It was a rolled up piece of plastic that had colored bands across it. WOW,,,,,,,,,and if you could see through the snow (NOT the Shameless kind) you could watch Ed Sullivan on Sunday nights. We got to stay up late that night!
THE WESTERNS back then!! Never thought too much about the 87 shot revolvers that those guys had. Saturday cartoons (AFTER the chores were all done). You can't watch them now, they are too violent now, Tom & Jerry, are bigoted or just plain not politically correct. But then, who had time to watch??
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