Anyone Remember These?

HiDesertHal

HiDesertHal

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Southern California's High Mojave Desert
Those "junior" Seniors in their 60's won't remember these items.

We got our first TV in 1951, and stopped curling up around the old Philco Console Radio in the evenings for Amos 'n' Andy.

The item I refer to is the tinted plastic filter you fastened in front of your B&W TV screen to simulate a Color picture!

It was tinted green on the bottom and blue on the top, which was fine if your 17" Packard Bell was showing a scene with green grass and blue sky, but all other scenes were a joke!

Ahhh well...there was always Uncle Miltie on Tuesday nights, and he was always funny in black & White!

Historic Hal
 

Back in the 50s, I remember how excited my buddy got when he told me that his family was the only people to have color tv. When I walked in and saw what kburra posted, I couldn't help but laugh out loud. Of course he wouldn't speak to me for a couple of days.
 

It must've been around 1957 when my father brought home our first black and white TV, I was just a little one and the whole family was excited to watch the shows.
 
Before we got our first TV in 1951, we and many others would go down town on Tuesday nights where some appliance stores had a TV in the widow, so we could all stand on the sidewalk and watch Milton Berle and his Texaco Star Theater Show.

HiDesertHal
 
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