When life was in black and white
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Awesome!!! Thanks for the nostalgic trip into TV land!!!
I need it now!!!
Fantastic!!
Ron
Ron
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Wow Peter that was really great.
Thanks
Peter
Wow Peter that was really great.
Thanks
Peter
Sorry, doesn't do that much for me as I came onto the scene post BW TV. Well shouldn't say that as even though our sets were colour, many saw many programs like "Bewitched", "I Love Lucy" and "Leave It To Beaver, oh yes, "The Andy Griffth Show" that were broadcast in all or partially black and white. One of my favourite scary series "The Twilight Zone" was in all BW.
My "problem" is actually seeing things in my mind as existing in colour pre 1950 or so. It wasn't until Happy Days that one believed people lived in those times in actual colour. Weird, yes, but kids eh?
My "problem" is actually seeing things in my mind as existing in colour pre 1950 or so. It wasn't until Happy Days that one believed people lived in those times in actual colour. Weird, yes, but kids eh?
Those were the days
Waiting for that old Admiral set to warm up, and then clunking around to the station, fooling around with the antennas, tuning it in sharper with the round knob, messing with the horizontal knob to stop the picture from rolling, and adjusting the vertical knob to stop the vertical lines. Sometimes it took almost 5 minutes. When all else failed, a swift slap or kick usually worked wonders.
A remote control would have been useless.
Waiting for that old Admiral set to warm up, and then clunking around to the station, fooling around with the antennas, tuning it in sharper with the round knob, messing with the horizontal knob to stop the picture from rolling, and adjusting the vertical knob to stop the vertical lines. Sometimes it took almost 5 minutes. When all else failed, a swift slap or kick usually worked wonders.
A remote control would have been useless.
We were the first people on the block with color TV - a big "Early American" console RCA. It seemed like that thing was always needing the TV guy to come out and fix it.
As far as remotes, my parents had two: My sister and me ;-)
As far as remotes, my parents had two: My sister and me ;-)
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That was really fun. Thanks Peter. Can't wait to share it with others. Funny how I found so much more to watch with 3 or 4 channels than I do now with who knows how many!
Neat and so cool-remember many of those programs and commercials as a kid-Yes, in my growing up days had "Monochrome" sets or B&W.First one us kids in the family used was an old Hoffman-that set was "Green&White"how did we watch the thing-Then we graduated to a "Bucket" model Zenith-a set with a metal cabinet that sat on a table or stand.That thing ran for over 20 years-and my Mom traded it in towards her first RCA color set.My dad didn't beleive in color-US kids got to watch her color set when we visited Mom for the summer.Also this makes me think of the other end--the transmitter sites with RCA TT25L transmitters with the "Afterburner"-"incinerator" visual linear power amp and its 7 tubes.The power supply was in a another cabinet full of mercury vapor rectifier tubes-when a dark scene was transitted-the tubes glowed brighter!and the power transformer was in a cabinet beside the rectifier-it hummed LOUDER during the dark scenes as well.Those rigs and the TV's were fun to work on.the studios with early "Iconoscope" cameras-Flying spot slide scanners,16MM and 35MM film chains with 35MM slide projectors.Live studios with a "sounds effects" man-"Foley" artist!and his variable speed turntables and many sound effect records for sounds.And to top it off early RCA and Ampex 2" Quad videotape recorders.And the studios were lit with "Kleig,"Mole Richardson" lighting equipment.
rinso
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I remember well the 1950's. Hell, not only was television in black and white, but so was the real world, a la Pleasantville. If one wanted color in their life, they had to go to the movies. "Fabulous Technicolor, breathtaking CinemaScope, and stereophonic sound."
washerboy
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I remember well the day Daddy came home with a Zenith color set. We'd had a Zenith black and white that was a dark rust color...the picture tube went out..so we did'nt have TV for the longest. Daddy went to K-Mart and bought the color set. I remember sitting in front of it for so long my eyes were blood shot (according to my mother it was because I sat too close). Any way that set finally got put to rest in the mid 80's...and as far as a remote..Momma said "if your too lazy to get up and change the station..you dont need to be watching TV". Fun to remember happy times in life!!!
I remember well the day Daddy came home with a Zenith color set. We'd had a Zenith black and white that was a dark rust color...the picture tube went out..so we did'nt have TV for the longest. Daddy went to K-Mart and bought the color set. I remember sitting in front of it for so long my eyes were blood shot (according to my mother it was because I sat too close). Any way that set finally got put to rest in the mid 80's...and as far as a remote..Momma said "if your too lazy to get up and change the station..you dont need to be watching TV". Fun to remember happy times in life!!!
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