I'm So Old....
Oct 9, 2017 12:39:51 #
I have the feeling there are a lot of folks besides me on OPP who have had this same experience.....
Oct 9, 2017 12:54:20 #
You are so correct. I can remember when our family went into the “big city”, our dad stood in line in the TV show room for about 3 hours for an opportunity to purchase a 16” black and white set on a stand. Big times. Woo Hoo!!!
Oct 9, 2017 12:56:16 #
PaulPisces wrote:
I have the feeling there are a lot of folks besides me on OPP who have had this same experience.....
I've done all those things. Is 44 considered old now?
Oct 9, 2017 13:02:26 #
EL
Loc: Massachusetts
GLR wrote:
You are so correct. I can remember when our family went into the “big city”, our dad stood in line in the TV show room for about 3 hours for an opportunity to purchase a 16” black and white set on a stand. Big times. Woo Hoo!!!
I remember my grandparents buying the first TV I ever saw in the 40's. It was a 3" Stromberg Carlson and it cost $900. There were only a few programs on a week in black and white. Mostly, one got to watch test patterns. Even that seemed exciting back then. Just imagine turning a knob on a box and seeing pictures!!
Oct 9, 2017 13:34:15 #
PaulPisces wrote:
I have the feeling there are a lot of folks besides me on OPP who have had this same experience.....
God, I remember all of that. Sad, just down right sad...
Oct 9, 2017 13:38:52 #
PaulPisces wrote:
I have the feeling there are a lot of folks besides me on OPP who have had this same experience.....
heck Paul
I go farther back than that
we didn't have TVs
all the phones were on a party line
you had to wait your turn to make a call,
and then wait for the operator to make connections
We sat around the radio for entertainment
Oct 9, 2017 13:50:24 #
PaulPisces wrote:
I have the feeling there are a lot of folks besides me on OPP who have had this same experience.....
I'm so old I remember when rotary phones were science fiction
Oct 9, 2017 13:52:27 #
Floyd Brown
Loc: Milwaukee WI
PaulPisces wrote:
I have the feeling there are a lot of folks besides me on OPP who have had this same experience.....
Only after I had been around for a while did I find out that the first TV broadcast was around the time of my birth.
I was a freshman in high school before I saw my first TV. 1950!
It was when I had my first real job about 55-56 that I bought the family's first TV.
My I-pad today has a bigger screen & a lot less snow.
Lived in Racine WI. Had tower with a rotor & picked up stations from Milwaukee, Chicago.
On a good day got stations from Michigan & even Texas on a rare occasion.
In 64-65 bought the first color TV.
I got Roku but have not gotten any reasonable control over it. Too many choices.
I have located the spot in the house now for the 75" TV of my dreams.
Need to relocate wires & such first. Plus need to be sure that it can't be seem from outside of house.
Want to have the world wide web on the big screen. The insanity of 350.000 possible programs.
More time is spent looking for some thing to watch than watching. Please don't bring up my dementia.
Oct 9, 2017 14:34:51 #
PaulPisces wrote:
I have the feeling there are a lot of folks besides me on OPP who have had this same experience.....
You had TV? We had one of those. It only picked up one channel, even with an entire damn roll of aluminum foil on those antennas. We got a big outside antenna and lo and behold, we could pick up TWO channels, and once in a while a third came in; albeit somewhat fuzzy.
All this, and people wonder why I spent so much time in the woods. The Kit Carson National Forest was more entertaining than dumbass soap operas.
Oct 9, 2017 16:01:14 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
badbobby wrote:
heck Paul br I go farther back than that img src=... (show quote)
BB, did you have a C.D. player in your conestoga wagon
Oct 9, 2017 17:49:44 #
slatten49 wrote:
BB, did you have a C.D. player in your conestoga wagon
He was taking poker lessons from some of the older cowboys. They taught him how to lose to Marines without his wife finding out how much he actually lost.
Oct 9, 2017 17:57:58 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
PoppaGringo wrote:
He was taking poker lessons from some of the older cowboys. They taught him how to lose to Marines without his wife finding out how much he actually lost.
Those old cowboys (most likely from Texas) taught him well.
In doing so, they brought in a lot of extra cash for me. Oct 9, 2017 19:10:46 #
slatten49 wrote:
Those old cowboys (most likely from Texas) taught him well. In doing so, they brought in a lot of extra cash for me.
In doing so, they brought in a lot of extra cash for me. you should read that book
instead of dissing those to whom you owe unpaid IOUs
come on guys man up and awaken from your dreams
Pay me!!!
Oct 9, 2017 20:34:02 #
Worried for our children wrote:
I've done all those things. Is 44 considered old now?
Nope, not even close.
RETW
Oct 9, 2017 20:40:20 #
badbobby wrote:
heck Paul br I go farther back than that img src=... (show quote)
Oh yes, and I can still remember our 1st telephone number ( 6541 ) ext 6. I some time listened in on the line. Sure as you no it, one of my parents would catch me. Boy did I get a switching for that.
RETW
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