standard, stick, and rotary party lines
#12
Definately remember the rotary phone; and the standard - although I learned to drive on a car that was a stickshift.
But my boys don't believe that we didn't have "at least" cable TV (we have a dish) - and we had only three channels ABC/CBS/NBC and to switch there was a box that controlled the antenna on the roof. You had to move the arrow on the box and the antenna went zzzclickzzzclick until it reached the direction you wanted to aim it to recieve the TV signal.
They are certain I have made this story up!
But my boys don't believe that we didn't have "at least" cable TV (we have a dish) - and we had only three channels ABC/CBS/NBC and to switch there was a box that controlled the antenna on the roof. You had to move the arrow on the box and the antenna went zzzclickzzzclick until it reached the direction you wanted to aim it to recieve the TV signal.
They are certain I have made this story up!
#13
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Indiana
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I am there with you, too. I remember the day my DD asked, "What do those knobs on Grandma's tv do?". I told her that back in the day, we not only had to walk a mile to school, when we got home, after our chores were done and IF we were allowed, we had to actually get out of our chair to turn the tv on. You should have seen her face when I told her that we had to get up every time we wanted to change the channel. And that it wasn't very often because we only had 4 channels. She is turning 30 this year.
#14
Originally Posted by mcdaniel023
I am there with you, too. I remember the day my DD asked, "What do those knobs on Grandma's tv do?". I told her that back in the day, we not only had to walk a mile to school, when we got home, after our chores were done and IF we were allowed, we had to actually get out of our chair to turn the tv on. You should have seen her face when I told her that we had to get up every time we wanted to change the channel. And that it wasn't very often because we only had 4 channels. She is turning 30 this year.
#20
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Western NY
Posts: 152
I am not really old enough to remember party lines, but the 3 on the tree and 4 on the floor is something my Dad used to say :-) I do remember how excited we were when the Fox channel started, before that we had network and PBS. I also remember watching the world premier of MTV- video killed the radio star by the buggles- back when MTV played music, not that awful faux reality TV
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