OK Geezers, how many of these characters can you name?
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@bachophile said in OK Geezers, how many of these characters can you name?:
I know it’s cliche but really 1960s tv was really something. And since there were limited channels eveyone watched the same thing. So everyone had a common cultural language. Now? A gazillion channels. And who even watches tv when there is tik tok and god know what else. Shame.
We could only get NBC and CBS. Then dad bought a new, bigger antenna, and we could get a ABC channel. A few years later, we got a new PBS channel.
That's four channels!
We were shittin' in high cotton...
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Oh, and we didn't have an electric antenna rotator. We'd driven a pipe in the ground, then put some old small diameter well pipe in that and attached the antenna to it. The antenna was probably 25 feet in the air.
To get the best reception, you turned the antenba to face the station's broadcasting tower. We kept a pipe wrench on the outside window sill to turn the pipe. If mom wanted to watch something on the CBS station (we usually were turned to pickup the local NBC station), I'd go turn the antenna. Since we only had four stations, that wasn't that big of a deal.
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@bachophile said in OK Geezers, how many of these characters can you name?:
Now? A gazillion channels.
Mrs. George: "There's nothing on TV."
@George-K said in OK Geezers, how many of these characters can you name?:
@bachophile said in OK Geezers, how many of these characters can you name?:
Now? A gazillion channels.
Mrs. George: "There's nothing on TV."
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I spent many a happy evening in and around Hooterville. I remember one of Jethro's best remarks about space babes from the moon, "would they print it in a comic book if it wasn't true?"
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