Oh let's face it...

[jdinstl]

...we wanna live in the past...

Yeah, I wanna see the NBC Peacock fan its tail to the words "In Living Color...." on the behemoth RCA 25" Console job my folks had...there's a picture of that monster around here I need to scan...

What do you wanna see?

John

 

[partscounterman]

I just wanna look at a program that doesn't have a five minute commercial break every 10 minutes

 

[retromom]

Whatever happened to......

Boy do I miss that peacock and the "ding ding ding" of the NBC chime. Network programming (among other things) has gone down the toilet. Ditto for appliances and cars. I'm glad I got to experience the late 50's, 60's, and 70's. I'm just sorry that my children can't experience the fun, wonder, and innocence of that era. Guess I'll have to pull out my old pics.

 

[jdinstl]

NBC Chimes....

Check out this blurb about 'em

http://users.adams.net/~jfs/chimes.htm

 

[maytagbear]

I'd really, really love a

Magnavox, or Scott, or Voice of Music console with cassette and cd players.

Modern component stereos are just too complicated for me. Likewise modern upper end televisions!

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[Designgeek]

And television programs without endless violence and nastywords, and music on the radio without same, and a two-party government...

Good ol' square innocence and good will and reasonableness all'round.

Some day....

 

[thirtyater]

Well said DG! ... and those days when you could buy a product made in USA and when everyone wasn't out to take you for all they can get. When you could get sick without the fear of the doctors and hospitals wanting your entire estate.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Here's another fun link to check out related to the above posts...

NBC, ABC, and CBS logos from the 1950's and 60's

 

[veg-o-matic]

I want Woolworth's back!

 

[DADoES]

Cool site about the network logos. I saved the files.

 

[geoffdelp]

I loved looking at those again!! Thanks, Robert.

I remember the NBC peacock really well. I always thought it was cool the way the ends of its "plume" would sort of pop-out at you; in "living color" of course!!

Let's see ... was Bonanza on NBC on Sunday nights? Can't remember!!!!

 

[alr2903]

a long forgotten favorite of mine, Jessica

Jessica Savitch, reporting for this NBC station, and for more NBC overnight. ahhhhhhhhhh poor Jessica. Drown in a rain flooded ditch. Anybody remember Jessica? She truly was NBC's golden girl.

 

[cehalstead]

logos and chimes

Yes, Bonanza was Sunday night. And thanks for posting the "color" logos. I only got to see the early ones in glorious black and white. We didn't get COLOR until 1970.

 

[tolivac]

The NBC Peacock makes me think of the RCA TV transmitters and studio gear used to broadcast it.

 

[jasonl]

Being a child of the 70s, seeing a black screen with a blue line expanding to reveal Florence Henderson and hearing the words "Here's a story..." is enough to bring me back to childhood where there were only 4 channels and no remote.

And now, a trip back to childhood is a DVD away.

I want CHiPs and The Patridge Family!!!!

 

[tlee618]

Thanks Robert, what a fun link. Brought back lots of good memories!! Terry

 

[petek]

WOW

I gotta color tv, an RCA Victor Color TV, in our home there's color now..WOW, I got a color TV...
Anyone remember that commercial jingle from the late 50's or early 60s with the little cartoon guy dancing.
Course we bugged and badgered the folks but it didn't happen till quite a few years later.

Anyone here come from a Curtis Mathes television owning home?
Sort of the upscale brand.

 

[kenmore1978]

Curtis Mathes

My Great Aunt & Uncle had a Curtis Mathes B&W TV/phonograph/radio console. I remember seeing a brochure that said some of the modesls were "color convertible" always wondered how that worked.

 

[petek]

Color convertible

It probably meant they brought in a new color picture tube and innards and left with a whole lotta money. CM's were certainly not very common compared to Zeniths and RCA' but they did promote the quality of their sets somewhat like the Japanese did when they arrived, while RCA fixated on how easy it was to get their sets repaired..hmmm