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(15,801 posts)Also, Liberace and Your Hit Parade.
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Ptah
(33,028 posts)Follow the dot
csziggy
(34,136 posts)rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)Glamrock
(11,799 posts)I remember when MTV played music videos....
MustLoveBeagles
(11,599 posts)Same here.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Only 3 black and white channels, all of which went off the air at midnight, they played the National Anthem and then you got silence and snow. Later on you got a picture, because seeing snow on a tv could also mean something was wrong with your reception , so they put up a picture.
Tv went back on the air at 6 am.
cloudbase
(5,513 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Altho my memory sez it used to be the Indian head in the center, bigger.
cloudbase
(5,513 posts)Different companies used different patterns. RCA had theirs, Dumont had theirs. . .
Ohiogal
(31,989 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)I remember when my grandma came to visit us from time to time and she'd always want to watch Lawrence Welk, and we kids would whine and complain but Mom insisted that grandma should watch her show. I thought he was hopelessly square even then.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Saw a few minutes of re-run in recent years.
Wow!
csziggy
(34,136 posts)When I finally told her that it had been in re-runs for over thirty years. Even then she'd watch many weeks while it ran on the local educational channel.
The original Lawrence Welk show was last made in 1982 though they did make family specials through 2011.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)Mid-70s til she died in 84. If you went to visit her in a Sat. evening, 7:00 was Lawrence Welk Time for the whole place and the hour was sacrosanct.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)My poor misguided mother thought his show gave her great insight in to...classical music.
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)...were fun for the whole family.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Decisions, decisions...
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)All that walking to the gas station vending machine, I guess.
Arkansas Granny
(31,516 posts)Saturday morning cartoons were on the radio.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)we had to draw our own cartoons on cave walls.
red dog 1
(27,797 posts)chillfactor
(7,575 posts)another favorite of mine growing up...but maybe you are not as old as I am.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)That was such a thrill.
GReedDiamond
(5,312 posts)...I saw THIS on YouTube!:
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)MissMillie
(38,555 posts)My folks would mostly let us choose what we wanted to watch (Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, etc) but only if they got to see Lawrence Welk every week.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)We lived in a dictatorship. Adults chose the tv shows. Us kids got watch Sat. morning cartoons, if we were very quiet and let the adults sleep in.
Sundays there was noting on except boring old talk shows. TV people assumed everyone was in church then Sunday family dinner.
We heathens suffered, I tell you. Suffered!!
Ohiogal
(31,989 posts)We watched what the adults wanted to watch, case closed.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)It was his most prized possession. He'd run around the house wearing the hat and singing the Davy Crockett song.
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)A toy sword that held a piece of chalk so you could write a Z
steve2470
(37,457 posts)I did not dare question why
I'm so old, there was no such thing as FM radio, at least not to me. Maybe they had it "up north", but not in my area.
red dog 1
(27,797 posts)which had a mostly black cast, and often used scripts from the old Amos & Andy radio show.
It ran from June 1951 to April 1953, was sponsored by the Blatz Brewing Company, and was very popular according to Nielsen ratings.
The show was widely repeated in syndicated reruns until 1966 when, in an unprecedented action for network television at that time, CBS finally gave in to pressure from the NAACP and the growing civil tights movement and withdrew the program.
in 2012, "Rejoice TV," a small independent television & Internet network in Houston, started airing the show weeknights on a regular, nationwide basis for the first time since CBS pulled the series from syndication in 1966.
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)Original eps in 51 and 52 of another show....let's see..something called..."I love Lucy" yes
..Monday nights..................oops..........
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)Season 1, Episode 1
sl8
(13,759 posts)"A modern spiritual"?
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)Ohiogal
(31,989 posts)Archie and Edith both seemed so OLD. A while back, I watched a rerun where Archie said he was 49! I was astonished!
NBachers
(17,108 posts)Texasgal
(17,045 posts)but MTV is also OLD!
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I remember my dad and older brothers going to an Eisenhower rally in the mid-1950s.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)So that had to have been in 1952...We lived near Ruby Beach on teh Washington state coast, real isolated area, only shortwave would get any reception and that came in and faded out.
Heard something called "The Grand Ole Oprey" on that radio, my Mom was real impressed it came thru, she told us it was being broadcast from somewhere "clear across the country".
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I was about 10,
I could listen to the Eddy Arnold Show (country music) on the radio In rural Pa.
He also had a TV show, but I don't remember that.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)Bayard
(22,063 posts)But I would only watch Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and Ed Sullivan with him. We saw the Beatles debut together. Dad was scandalized.
My mom always watched the Porter Wagner Show with Dolly Parton.
edbermac
(15,939 posts)We had to watch TV by candlelight.
IggleDuer
(964 posts)PJMcK
(22,035 posts)...there were only 48 stars on the flag when I was born.
DFW
(54,370 posts)I MISS saber-toothed tigers. They were cute (when they were little, anyway).
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)benld74
(9,904 posts)Weather Channel
Was a continuous radar image
With the radius going around
Refreshing the screen
STL blizzard of 82
Showed blue radar image
With wall of white descending from the NW
Next morning
Entire tv screen was white
With the radius still turning its cicle
😂