Remember when there were only THREE channels?

We had a 27" Zenith set that broke down about three times a year. So often I remember the repairman's name Eddie Bastic.
 

You betcha!! We were the first in our neighborhood and one of the first in town to have a tv: (my father had a great interest in electronics.) A neighbor's boy would sit on our front stoop and watch it through the screen door and several of my friends who lived a distance away came over just to see what it was like.
 
We got our first TV when I was 5. So that would have been 1952. It was a 21 inch Zenith. It lasted pretty good. I remember watching Star Trek on it when I was in junior college before it finally koncked out.
 
Tommy said:
You were a lucky kid, Trade! 21 inches was a huge screen in 1952. :magnify:
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Oh Hellyeah! It was state of the art at the time. We were ridin high in '52. My old man had made a couple of sweet deals in Florida real estate. We had an almost new 1951 Buick that he had paid cash for, a pretty decent house in a middle class neighborhood and I remember my old man bragging about how we had $3,000 bucks in the bank. But things went downhill pretty fast from there on. My old man took to pursuing his favorite activities of drinking gambling and womanizing. By the time his lifestyle caught up with him and he died of a heart attack in 1957 he was living in that 51 Buick and my mom and I were living in a dumpy apartment in Lodi New Jersey where she was supporting us by waiting tables for nickel and dime tips. But we still had that 21 inch Zenith TV. Damn good TV. Lasted until 1967. They don't make em like that anymore.

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Our history teacher (and baseball coach) brought a televison to school and instead of history we watched the World Series, Yankees vs Dodgers. Girls were allowed to watch or go to study hall, not one girl stayed to watch. That is a day I still remember, I was on the school baseball team and baseball is still my favorite sport. Mickey Mantle was my favorite player. Many years later I read a story that said he was an alcoholic and sometimes played while drinking and could be rude to fans..
Today my cell phone can be my televison, computer, stereo, I can have a live photo talk to the great grand children. Sometimes I think to myself, surely I have seen it all.... I HOPE NOT!
 
norman said:
Our history teacher (and baseball coach) brought a televison to school and instead of history we watched the World Series, Yankees vs Dodgers. Girls were allowed to watch or go to study hall, not one girl stayed to watch. That is a day I still remember, I was on the school baseball team and baseball is still my favorite sport. Mickey Mantle was my favorite player. Many years later I read a story that said he was an alcoholic and sometimes played while drinking and could be rude to fans..
Today my cell phone can be my televison, computer, stereo, I can have a live photo talk to the great grand children. Sometimes I think to myself, surely I have seen it all.... I HOPE NOT!
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I was a Dodger fan. Duke Snider was my favorite player. I hated the Yankees.

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I was born in a little Massachusetts town of 18,000. So, of course, I am a Boston Red Sox fan. You have to be, I guess it's something in the water. And, it follows, the NY Yankees are heathens.
 
Trade said:
I was a Dodger fan. Duke Snider was my favorite player. I hated the Yankees.

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Speaking of the Dogers, I met Carl Erskine and got a autographed baseball from him. I think he is still alive, but he must have autographed a ton of these because they are not very valuable. I still keep it on display, he was one of the most polite persons I have ever met..
 
My brother was a Yankees fan so we went to Comisky when the Yankees came to town. Watching Mickey Mantle play still sticks in my memory after all these years. He was very special.
 
On a live broadcast, the camera man was scanning the crowd and a couple was sitting close together hugging. Dizzy Dean was announcing the game and said on live television, "He kisses her on the strikes and she kisses him on the balls," He was fired after that broadcast because of the complaints. lol
 
I just read the original Gunsmoke opening had the marshall and a gunman facing each other and the Marshall shoots him down. Well, the anti-violence types of the 70s protested this as too violent so it was changed to showing only Matt Dillon shooting but not the other guy getting shot. Strange that the antiviolence folks did not object to Miss Kitty being a Madame for a whorehouse.
 
norman said:
Our history teacher (and baseball coach) brought a televison to school and instead of history we watched the World Series, Yankees vs Dodgers. Girls were allowed to watch or go to study hall, not one girl stayed to watch. That is a day I still remember, I was on the school baseball team and baseball is still my favorite sport. Mickey Mantle was my favorite player. Many years later I read a story that said he was an alcoholic and sometimes played while drinking and could be rude to fans..
Today my cell phone can be my televison, computer, stereo, I can have a live photo talk to the great grand children. Sometimes I think to myself, surely I have seen it all.... I HOPE NOT!
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I would have been one of those girls who elected to go to study hall. :)
 
norman said:
Our history teacher (and baseball coach) brought a televison to school and instead of history we watched the World Series, Yankees vs Dodgers. Girls were allowed to watch or go to study hall, not one girl stayed to watch. That is a day I still remember, I was on the school baseball team and baseball is still my favorite sport. Mickey Mantle was my favorite player. Many years later I read a story that said he was an alcoholic and sometimes played while drinking and could be rude to fans..
Today my cell phone can be my televison, computer, stereo, I can have a live photo talk to the great grand children. Sometimes I think to myself, surely I have seen it all.... I HOPE NOT!
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We have seen.many many changes over the years havent we?
 
Those were great baseball years werent they? I recall well loving to watch the red soxs while my brother loved the yankees! Do you think that caused any trouble? Haaaahaa
 
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