madjack wrote:My uncle got out of the service in the early 50's, came home and openned one of the first radio and TELEVISION shops in the area...we bought our first TV(used) from him in 1958.....
madjack
Chris C wrote:Not certain exactly when, but I remember seeing a little tiny rounded screen that was flat on the top and bottom around 1949. Families from all over gathered at this house (the home of my aunt's soon to be husband's parent's) to watch this "new-fangled" thing called television.
angib wrote:In the mid-50s my parents got their first TV - a beautiful wooden cabinet about 4ft high whose double doors were opened to reveal a black/white (OK, dark grey/ light grey) screen maybe 9" across - honestly, the speaker below it was bigger! All of two channels were available. I too watched The Lone Ranger at home, and got a terrible crick in my neck from lying on the floor, since the tiny screen was near the top of the 4ft cabinet!
I was still quite young when all us kids were allowed to stay up in order to see our father appear on a current affairs prog (like 20/20, I think) - I would not go to bed afterwards, but insisted on waiting around the back of this huge cabinet for my father (not a big man) to come out, so I could tell him he'd been on TV.........
Andrew
Only two channels? Where did you live? Let's see, in the late 50's in Los Angeles we had channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13. That was CBS, NBC, KTLA, ABC, KHJ, KTTV and KCOP. KTLA, KHJ, KTTV AND KCOP were local channels at the time.Larry Messaros wrote:<snip>
I think ours was from the early '60's. Only 2 channels and I would watch Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Dressup, and the Friendly Giant.
My Dad was never important enough to be on TV though.
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