Do you remember when......?

Question

we only had three tv channels to chose from? And when you would want to watch a tv station like tv38 you would have to put tinfoil on the antenas? And even still you always saw a shadow. Go Bruins......Chief and Bobby Orr!!!!

Answer 1

Yes, and we actually had to get up and walk across the room to turn channels or change the volume.

Answer 2

I tell my two daughters the same thing. My youngest daughter asked me what my favorite cartoons were when I was young and I explained there were only 3 channels and usually cartoons only played just before school time so we couldn't watch or on Saturdays until 12 noon and then we would watch Creature Feature (Godzilla and other Asian made scary movies) she just can't grab the concept. I also remember when my dad called the cable company and we were told we couldn't get cable because there had to be a certain number of people living within a district and when my grandmother got cable it was this bix push button box with a long wire that ran from the box to the television and that the television had to stay on channel 3 but the roller on the channel knob was loose so she had to use a matchbook to wedge it into place.

Answer 3

I remember the three channels ,channel 6, 8 ,and 13,and putting foil to try to get the extra station. Can you remember channel 8 and 13 for along time before channel 6. When I saw channel 6 for the first time, I saw flipper.

Answer 4

Yes I do, here's some other things. Hope you enjoy!

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the
1930s '40s, '50s, '60s and ‘70s!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.


They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.


Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright- colored, lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.


As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.


Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and NO ONE actually died from this.


We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day. And we were okay.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes! After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.


We did not have Play stations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video-tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS, and we went outside and found them!


We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.


We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.


We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!


Little League had tryouts, and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!


The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!


This generation has produced some of the best risk takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.


We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

Answer 5

Yes I remember those days. Or how about when you had to go outside and turn the antenna? How long ago was that? LOL!!! Those were the good old days even though we didnt have 100 channels. We had a lot more fun things to do outside.LOL!!!

Answer 6

Yes, what Basscatcher said!

We didn't have a TV when I was growing up, but one summer (I was age 13) and saw hers. We listened to radio. I still do, on internet old time radio. Using your imagination listening to radio drama is much more fun that actually watching it. :)

Answer 7

Yes I can remember that. I can also remember when gas was under a dollar a gallon, cigarettes were 45 cents a pack. Most rents for apartments were under 100.00 dollars.

Answer 8

And the "snow". We never got to watch The Wonderful World of Disney without it. And the greenish cast to the "screen". That was our color!

Answer 9

Yeah, and I think I really like you!! Great question!

Answer 10

yep. i was always the designated antenna mover.