Here's your typical 1952 family.

My mom always made us sit far away from the TV. She was convinced it was going to ruin our eyes or we'd get cancer or something.....

My grandparents had the first TV in the family. It was a great big upright cabinet like the old upright radios, with a small circular screen.

The first TV my family had was a little one that sat on a small table. We got three channels, all of which signed off at midnight or it might have even been 11 p.m. My dad was often up on the roof, twisting the antenna around while my mother shouted out the window, "IT'S BETTER, NOW IT'S BETTER, MUCH BETTER.....NO, IT'S BAD AGAIN!!!!"
 

Advertisements have never depicted the real world accurately. They are designed that way. It's to make you feel deprived of happiness because you do not have what the people in the ad do, but if you would just buy their product, then you would be happy aand successful like they are. It's the psychology of marketing. And it works on many people. Which is why they keep doing it. So go out and buy a top of the line Magnavox TV. On credit. And maybe then you can be one of the beautiful people too!
 
When I was a kid, it was appointment tv.

The tv would get warmed up a few minutes before the news came in or a must see program like Ed Sullivan, Bonanza, The Wonderful World of Disney, etc… and then it would be turned off.

The TV was only in during the day for something special like a NASA moon launch, a state funeral, or the Thanksgiving day parades.

These days my TV is on almost nonstop, even if I’m not paying attention to it.
 
Grampa Don said:
If you look at the fine print in those ads you'll see that the people are show business stars. In mine, it's Peter Lynd Hayes and his wife Mary Healy. In Hollydolly's it's Edgar Bergen and his family. That's why Charley McCarthy is on the TV.
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Repondering said:
We got our first TV in 1958, I was five years old then and we didn't sit that close to it either.
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That’s why there are no family photos of your family with the TV. Or mine. Silly us.
 
We had a similar TV. The only difference was it was lighter wood to match the danish modern living room. It did have the doors. If the doors were closed that meant no TV for kids today.

Although my father wore a suit to work every day, the only time they were both dressed that way was just before leaving for a formal dinner or a New Year’s Eve party.
 

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