hollydolly
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Fascinating look at 100 years of Television. Can you remember your first tv from these shown in the video...
My cousin lived in Guam... did you know her ?We got our fist tv shortly after coming back from Guam when I was a little guy. I remember watching Howdy Doody with my grandfather.
Sure . . .My cousin lived in Guam... did you know her ?
..ain't that the truth..What I remember wasn't so much the actual tv but rather the delivery. I think it was 1953 when a big truck pulled up in the driveway with two men and our black tin box RCA 21 inch TV. They had driven for over an hour to get to our house in the first place. These men assembled the antenna and spent hours moving it all around the yard to get the best picture. Then they drilled a hole in the wall and installed the twinlead wire. Finally they carried the TV (it was heavy) into the house and set it up.
All of this must have taken the better part of five hours to accomplish. Today you can't even get someone to carry your new TV out to your car.
Those folks should have bought a broom before a TVour first TV which we bought in December, 1955 was similar to this:
We used an old rabbit ear antenna to boast the signal.