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OK Geezers, how many of these characters can you name?

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  • JollyJ Jolly

    @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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    @Jolly said in OK Geezers, how many of these characters can you name?:

    That's four channels!

    We were shittin' in high cotton...

    Same here...and then..UHF! We got two more!

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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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.

      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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      • George KG George K

        @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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        @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."

        Link to video

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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          I could name almost all

          Sam Drucker was the best.

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            I liked Mr Haney, the huckster on Green Acres. But still liked the pig better.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            • Tom-KT Tom-K

              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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              @Tom-K said in OK Geezers, how many of these characters can you name?:

              I spent many a happy evening in and around Hooters.

              For me it was mostly lunches. But yeah, good times.

              "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
              -Cormac McCarthy

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                The one downtown Dallas was spectacular.

                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                  Lisa Douglas was really terrific too.

                  Not many people could pull off that wardrobe in Hooterville. And did you notice how she could outsmart Mr. Haney?

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                    blondie
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                    Oddly I was thinking some of these faces look familiar, but when someone mentioned Petty Coat Junction, I said yes! It was their theme song I remember best. But these were shows dad enjoyed. I liked cartoons on the 2-3 channels we had in the 1960s.

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                      Know all of them. My youth was misspent.

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