I sure do. When I was a kid, there was only one house in the whole neighborhood that had a color tv, and all the kids would go there to watch "Star trek" and "The Wizard of Oz" in color.
2006-08-17 14:59:57 · 49 answers · asked by opjames 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
I'm 29 and we had a black and white tv until I was about 10!
2006-08-17 15:05:04 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Stranger In Maine™♥ (Thriller) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 31. In my family, we started out with black & white TV. Going to visit my paternal grandparents was always a treat, because then I could see the shows I watched in color.
I must have been only six or seven but I remember that we tried two different color TV's that didn't work very well before finally settling on a third. (We kept our black & white as backup for a while.) By the time that set needed to be replaced, all new TV's were in color.
2006-08-17 17:06:17 · answer #2 · answered by smoke16507 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think one of our three channels came in black and white but the rest were in color most of the time. It was an old tv so sometimes the color sort of went. I remember only having abc, nbc, cbs and on very lucky days (my dad used to say when the wind was just right,) we could get Fox from across the lake. I grew up right along Lake Michigan.
2006-08-17 15:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by KMCsmiles 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My grandparents on the ranch in Montana got a black and white TV in 1957. I believe it was a Packard-Bell.
There was one channel (KXLF) from Butte, Montana. This was the only channel for many years. The first thing I ever saw on it was a Hekel & Jekel cartoon. The weather was done buy a guy everyone referred to as "Can Head" because he looked like he'd had his head stuck in a can.
If an airplane would come over, the picture would flip and roll. If the wind came up and shook the antenna, it would also cause it to flip and roll.
2006-08-17 15:12:07 · answer #4 · answered by expatmt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep- my parents bought the TV for the Lunar mission, and we didn't get a color set until 1980 when cable came to the neighborhood. So we were the only house that DIDN'T have color until then...
2006-08-17 15:06:00 · answer #5 · answered by HearKat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I'm old enough.
Our first TV was black & white. I was in high school, and I hated the thing because before the TV, we did homework, played games, and read in the living room. After the TV, no one wanted to play games with me and mom and dad kept sending me to my room to do my homework. I do not even remember when I saw the first color TV.
2006-08-17 15:07:02 · answer #6 · answered by wbecca52 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who could afford a color TV? We were way too poor to do that. We had a B/W TV well into the 1980's when I was growing up!
2006-08-17 15:04:01 · answer #7 · answered by Capn Jon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember when we bought our first color tv. Mammaw and Pappaw had one for years...and finally we got one too. I was probably one of the last people in our school to have a color tv.
2006-08-17 15:08:25 · answer #8 · answered by zil28ennov 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yeah. We never got a color TV until about 1972, when I was 15.
2006-08-17 15:05:14 · answer #9 · answered by oceansoflight777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
man we had color long before Star Trek and we were lower middle class ( i would think that you would be referring to 62-63 and i think Trek was 66 maybe 65 ) ( to keep plugging away the Wiz was a color MOVIE and that was its fame )
2006-08-17 15:03:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋