I remember when the first color TV's came out.

[Baclava]

You still only had 3 channels...and had to get up to turn the channels with the knobs



Take that you spoiled brats.

[Generic Brad]

1. And don't forget the lovely green skin tones

I thought the people in my hometown were the only ones in the whole world who were not green.

[liberaltrucker]

2. And the HUGE antenna.

Now, I mount a small dish on my right mirror frame
and get God only knows how many channels! Still nothing
to watch, though(till football season), ergo wireless
internet and a laptop sitting on the steering wheel-when
I'm shut down, of course! Ain't technology wonderful?

Back on topic, we got our first color TV in 1969-I was 14.
Since we lived 60 miles from Birmingham, there was a huge
Channel Master antenna on the roof-guy wires and all. Damn,
the house looked like freakin' NSA HQ!

[Baclava]

16. It was my job to "turn the antennae".

We had the thing up on a long pole stuck outside in the yard.
It would move if the wind got too high or the snow too heavy.
Of course, it wasn't near a window, so my dad would yell instructions to my mom who would yell to me...
...you get the picture.

[Broken_Hero]

3. oh yeah

well I remember when cd players came out, when laser discs were all the rage....:)

[WCGreen]

4. I remember the lady who watched us after school until my

mom got home was the first person I knew who got a colored TV...

We went over, all excited, ready to watch Johnny Quest....

And she had on Payton Place...

Talk about a childhood let down...

[Shakespeare]

5. Wow. You're old.

JOKING! I'm joking. ;-)

[Baclava]

19. Damn kids

The best part of the olde timey days...my dad gave me his 1956 Chrysler New Yorker for my first car.

392 hemi engine, 360 horsepower, push button automatic transmission...back then it was just an old car.
Today - I'd have to sell my house to afford a restored one....funny how things work like that.

[maveric]

6. We didnt get one till 1972.

Last house on the block to get one.
And my parents were both professionals that made decent money.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Color teevee's a little older than that

This is the cover of an owners manual for the first RCA model in production. It came out in April, 1954 and cost $1,000.



http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/

[Crabby Appleton]

24. $1000 in 1954

is approximately $7000 in todays dollars.

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. We got one in 1960

Came home after Christmas dinner at my aunt's, and :woohoo: Surprise! A color TV!

We tuned right in to the NBC channel. We all wanted to see the NBC Peacock In Full Living Color!

[Blue_In_AK]

9. We got our first TV about 1951 or so...

My dad was big on gadgets and absolutely had to have this new-fangled contraption. No indoor plumbing, but we had a TV. :rofl:

[Suich]

13. Well, I had indoor plumbing at least!

Do you remember the piece of plexiglass you could put on your black and white tv screen? It was blue on the top (sky), yellow in the middle, and green on the bottom?

[Jamastiene]

10. My family had one just like that, only it wasn't a color television.

And yes, you had to get up and turn the channels with knobs. Plus, you had to hold on to rabbit ears and hold your tongue just right to watch anything.

[Suich]

14. The dreaded rabbit ears!!!

My Dad was always screwing around with the rabbit ears! If we were all sitting around watching "You Are There" or something, and my Dad got out of his chair, we all groaned because we knew he was messing around with the dreaded rabbit ears (antenna) again!

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

15. First you'd finally get the picture clear, but the sound was

fuzzy. Then you'd get the sound clear but there were ghosts in the picture. And if you did it where both were clear, the picture was black and white even on a color broadcast on a color television. Some days it was hopeless and you couldn't watch television at all. How did we ever survive back then?

:hi:

[BrotherBuzz]

11. We had three stations, but only one transmitted in color (NBC)...

so we didn't get a color unit until about 1961 when the other networks started going color. Oh, our very first television was remote control, and that was back in 1953.

[Melynn]

12. I remember watching a baseball game in color for the first time

when I was a kid. I was transfixed.

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. My older brother broke the on off knob on ours when it was about

2 months old. We thought my father was going to have a heart attack... it was his prized possession. Funny thing is, my brother still has it... and it still works!

MrG was his father's "remote" and had to stand there flipping through the 5 channels for ungodly amounts of time. :hi:

[Baclava]

20. Where would you go to get new "tubes"?

I do remember changing out "the tubes".
Seems every hardware store had the "tube tester".

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. I have no idea. He moved it out with him when he left home about

20 years ago. Last time I was out to CA, it was in the corner of his bedroom, and he turned it on. I was stunned.

I remember how expensive t.v. repairs were.

[AirmensMom]

18. And don't forget the rabbit ears!

We had B&W for a LONG time after color came out. And it sat on a cart. No fancy console TVs for us. :( And, remember, only one of the three channels actually came in very well.

[calico1]

21. Ours looked similar but had 4 legs.

Remember how when you shut the TV off there would be this circle in the middle that tood forever to go away? Oh, and if you had to move the TV it weighed a TON!

[Joe Fields]

23. Do you remember the plastic screen coverings that were supposed

to turn your black and white picture into color? ROFLMAO just thinking about those. My father bought one, and it didn't work. He was so mad he went out that week and bought an RCA color console.

[hedgehog]

25. I remember Mom asking Grandpa how he liked the color TV

He said that it was interesting watching people play baseball on blue grass. (Really, blue grass.)

[TrogL]

26. I remember when horses were in common use

They pulled the milk truck and kids rode them to school.

Top that!

[GOPisEvil]

27. We had a remote control when I was a kid: ME!!!

Dad would tell me to get up and change the channel, and I'd go do it. :D

[Midlodemocrat]

28. LOL. I remember that. And, when we got cable, it was

literally a box attached to the TV with a cable.

Good times. Good times.