Can You Recall When Your Family Or You Got A Color TV?

In my childhood home, the early 70's.

As for remotes for televisions, that was unheard of, yet one of my grandmas had a remote control television (early 70's), and I remember her remote was about the size of two packages of cigarettes stacked on top of one another, and it had two push buttons.

I still remember the loud audible CHA-CHING that would emit from the remote when you pushed a button.
 
Aunt Marg said:
In my childhood home, the early 70's.

As for remotes for televisions, that was unheard of, yet one of my grandmas had a remote control television (early 70's), and I remember her remote was about the size of two packages of cigarettes stacked on top of one another, and it had two push buttons.

I still remember the loud audible CHA-CHING that would emit from the remote when you pushed a button.
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Yes I recall the loud clicking sound as well.
 

Absolutely. It was the summer of 1979. My wife and I had a cheap little 11" B&W set which was fine since we barely watched any television. One day, out of the blue, the Sears delivery guy showed up at our door with a new 19" color TV. Apparently my parents couldn't stand the fact that their son and DIL didn't have a color set. :rolleyes:
 
I was already out of the house and in my own apartment and working. My brother and I put our money together and for a Christmas present bought a used one from his friend. It was one of those in a wood base. My parents came to my apartment for an early Christmas Eve dinner and then left. My brother, me and my son, who must have been around 3 at that time. So must have been about 1973 or could have been he was 4 and it was 1974, not sure. Anyway, the three of us took off in my brother's car and took a back road to my parents' and got the television inside the house before they even got there. My mother was SO surprised to find us there and see the television! I think it was the only time in my life that my brother and I ever did something like that. I didn't have one myself, just a black and white.
 
old medic said:
LMAO.... Thanks for the memory......
My 1st dealing with a TV remote was at my Grandmothers house....
She also had an exercise bike... and if you pedaled hard and fast, and pulled the handlebars back quick It would change the channel
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ROFLMAO!

That's the craziest thing I ever heard! :ROFLMAO:

This is my laugh of the day, Old Medic!
 
Aunt Bea said:
In the early 70s.

It was an enormous wooden television from the GE employee store at the factory where my mother and stepfather both worked.
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That was ours, too, an oversized wooden box of a thing.

I'm not sure which was uglier, the large wooden box-like television or mom's stereo console. LOL!
 
Tommy said:
Absolutely. It was the summer of 1979. My wife and I had a cheap little 11" B&W set which was fine since we barely watched any television. One day, out of the blue, the Sears delivery guy showed up at our door with a new 19" color TV. Apparently my parents couldn't stand the fact that their son and DIL didn't have a color set. :rolleyes:
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I'll bet that changed hockey night in your house, Tommy! :)
 
It was 1980 and we had a big black and white TV but were longing for a color set. The non-profit for which I was working had been donated all the color TV sets from a local hotel. They were HUGE and weighed, I swear, 500 pounds each. But we were selling them for only $50 each, so I bought one.

We were so excited! A color TV! It had a great picture and we greatly enjoyed it for a few days until that day I sat a large glass of iced tea on top of the set and promptly knocked it over. The contents poured down into the grill on top of the "boot" on the back of the set. FIZZLE! SNAP! CRACKLE! POP! I quickly unplugged the set and wept.

We let it sit for a week with a fan pointing down the grill and then cautiously plugged it back in and turned it on. YAY! The picture appeared! Alas, no color, just black and white. Bummer. Now we only had a 500-pound black and white set. Oh, well.....

A few days later, I started to see hints of color in the screen. Gradually, the image turned back to full color. We used that set for another 10 years or so until we bought a "sleeker" color TV and donated the old one.
 
Fall of 1966. I was a freshman in college. I had the worst flu ever. It was so bad I couldn't lift my head. I was on the couch and watched a Western movie. The colors were so vivid. We were connected to a roof antenna and the reception was very good.
 
Not sure of the year, but we were living in a house trailer so it had to be late 60s. It was one of those consoles with the record player, radio and the tv. The first show in color we watched was the Wonderful World of Disney. I remember when Tinker Bell fluttered up, it scared the hell out of my youngest son.
 
The first color TV I saw was a neighbor's TV to watch the moon landing in 1969. Before anybody gets on me that it s in black and white, yes the moon video was, but everything else was in color. I went around on this in another forum, which I now longer subscribe to, when the subject came up, so hopefully this helps all of us avoid that.

I don't know when my family got a color TV because I was in the Army by then.

As for remote control, families with kids had those as long as there have been TVs - kid, change to channel ... :)

Tony
 
Furryanimal said:
Yes....it was about 1972.And the rental company repairman seemed to be almost a new family member!
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So was ours to the point I still remember his name was Eddy Bastic!! Occasionally he would have to haul off the picture tube so me and my brother would get inside and dad would take pictures. Those were the only days I was "on TV".
 

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