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...

http://www.kingoftheroad.net/KARD_html/kard4.html

 

[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

 

[petek]

How about

the Motorola tv's with "Works in a drawer". Those were a neat idea for the time. The front control panel slid out like a drawer and all the circuit boards were lined up for easy replacement.

 

[geoffdelp]

Sunday nights were special at our home ... and it always involved Bonanza "in living color".

For those of you who wondered what the words were to the theme song, follow this link ...

http://bonanzaworld.net/lyrics.php?s=

 

[david]

My stepdad owned a curtis mathes

It was in our living room for years-fianlly went out and pur chased an RCA, sometime in the late 80's. It was a nice set, well made in Athens, Texas which is about 120 miles west of where I live. My understanding is that the employees of CM bought the company when it was put up for sale, but that they couldn't make a go of it. I don't know the present status of it. We also had a Motorola which was also a good set.

 

[launderess]

Which television maker had that odd sounding woman in their commercials. Think her name was Rula Lenski

As for "vintage" television shows,give me Carol Burnett, All In The Family and Sanford and Son anyway.

Lots of laughs but nothing a family couldn't sit around and enjoy.

"Lizabeth" I'm coming to join ya honey, this is the big one!.

Launderess

 

[veg-o-matic]

Ah, Rula...

I remember Rula Lenska doing commercials for Alberto VO-5 hairspray, but not for TV sets.

Interestingly (or not), Carol Burnett did a parody of the VO-5 commercial on one of her shows with Rula watching from backstage. I don't think Carol knew she was there.

It's amazing, the kind of crap I remember...

 

[MrX]

Very early BBC Colour

Here's a a very early BBC Colour Test broadcast from the 1950s in a colour system that they played around with before PAL was adopted in the 1960s.

They were really trying to include as much colour as possible in the production and it all looks a bit "wrong".

(real player required for the link below)

http://www.apts.org.uk/colour.rm

 

[petek]

Rula Lenska

I remember the shampoo commemrcials where she was intro'd dashing out of private jet bejewelled and wrapped in a fur, as star of films and tv..huh? No-one had a clue who she was, but apparently she was/is famous over in Europe.
Have to take a look at a "where are they now" site..lol

 

[jetcone]

I want Monopolies Back!

Bell Telephone--it worked, it was simple and they NEVER called you everyday asking to upgrade your service!

Pan Am -- they had large seats and aisles and FRESH AIR on board.

3 Channels to choose from and a remote control with fewer than 2,000 buttons
( Of course we'd have to update alittle and include the SCI FI channel!!)

Powdered detergents that stayed on the market for years instead of months!!

Reel Lawnmowers that really cut the grass!!

Coke made with ALL sugar and in GLASS BOTTLES!

TV TIME Popcorn with its own "buttery Butter"!!

Rolos' that were as round as quarters.

American Muscle Cars.