Are you old enough to remember black and white tv?

Question

I can remember when I was a kid, and there was only one color tv set in the whole neighborhood, and I would ride my bike 6 blocks to a friend's house so I could watch "Star Trek",
"In living Color".
I can still remember the first time I watched "The Wizard Of Oz" in color, and I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
I have a picture of me taken when I was about 1 or 2 years old, sitting on the floor about 12 inches away from a black and white tv with my bottle in hand.

"In Living Color" refers to the slogan...not the tv show.

Answer 1

I remember ! lol

Answer 2

Yes! And rabbit ears. We had one TV and when it broke we actually had a TV repair man come fix it. We begged dad for a new color TV but dad said we didn't need one because we could see everything we needed to see in black and white. I also remember stations "signing off" at night with the Nation Anthem song and then a "sign off" logo coming on the screen and staying there while a high-pitched humming noise rang. I also remember when programs or movies advertised the fact they were "in color."

The funny thing is: after we finally got a "color" TV, dad absolutely refused to watch anything still broad-casted in black and white. "I didn't spend good money for a color TV so I could watch b&w!" Dad ruled the roost so unless it was in color.... it wasn't watched.

BTW, I also remember your namesake: Grape Ape (cartoon) lol

A few people mentioned remote controls. I remember the first remote controls were attached with an electric wire to the TV. We still thought it was an amazing thing.

I remember playing "Pong" on the TV and mom and dad worrying about the images being "burned" into the screen.

Answer 3

Well hell, I might hate to admit it
but I definitely old enough to remember black and white TV
I used to watch The Mickey mouse club and Lassie. And I too remember the first time I saw the Wizard of Oz in color. The Poppy's were magnificent. They always used to have it on Thanksgiving
Thanks for the memories :)

Answer 4

I am not old enough to remember when most tvs were black and white, but i do remember watching a lot of black and white tv as a child.

Answer 5

I DO remember!! We had an antenna in a tree for reception and every time there was a wind storm my dad would have to climb that tree and swing the antenna back into place.
We only had like 3 stations (on a good day)!

Answer 6

Barely. But In Living Color was in color. I remember my parents wrapping the tv antennae in foil to get a better picture.

Answer 7

Yes, I do. I also remember only two channels were available, and you would have to constantly get on the roof to turn the antenna. At least we didn't have to pay over a 100.00 a month for cable. Drive Inn movies were very popular back then. Alot of people actually put their bar-b-que pits in the back of their trucks and loaded up the kids with their sleeping bags, for a night at the movies. Teenagers use to see how many kids that they could stick in the trunk of their car, to sneak into the Drive Inn.

Answer 8

When I was around four, a TV was delivered to our house. My mom turned it on and there was Kiterick !!! That's really all I remember... how gorgeous she was in that cat suit. Later, my mom and I would watch " Twilight Zone', and I was scared out of my little pedal pushers!!

Answer 9

i remember owning a black and white tv... they were good times.

Answer 10

Our first tv was a black and white job. I was five I think. It was a Crosley, floor model. We used that sucker as our main tv and as a second tv for twelve years.

Answer 11

Yep on a 10" Motorola. But most of all "I Remember Mama" with Peggy Wood and a very young Dick van Patton as Nels, on Friday nites at 8PM.