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Most of us older folks remember this.

RobertMartin 8 Dec 27
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Level 7

My first records were played on one of these!

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Level 6

They were the bomb! We had component set up though, the TV cabinet but it swiveled, and a small cabinet turntable/AM/FM in the next corner of the room.

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Level 8

My parents had a Dumont.

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Level 9

I do remember.

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Level 8

The Mickey Mouse show that I watched happened to go off the air when my parents got a different tv. I thought each tv had it’s own shows, lol

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Level 8

I remember. Lol

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Level 8

One set of grandparents had the console color TV and the Hi-Fi. We had dinner at their house every Sunday night so that we could watch "The World of Disney". In the 1970s Indianspolis market, we had 3 channels that actually tuned in (with rabbit ears and foil). UHF was pretty snowy, but worth suffering through to watch "Sesame Street" and later, "The Electric Co" and "Zoom".

Zster Level 8 Dec 27, 2018
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Level 8

All I noticed was the little black dress. That hasn't changed much!

it's only as little as whoever is poured into it!

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Level 7

We had one that still worked. - even played '78's!! My grandfather had a basement FULL of cobsole tvs and stereos in various states of working order.

@PalacinkyPDX We had a Close-and-Play that played 78s, 45s, or 33s in the early 70s.

@Zster - I had one of those!
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Level 8

Even gets AM!?

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Level 5

I remember console TVs. Having 6 channels, 4 vhf, 2 uhf. And when Tvs had knobs

@Seeker3CO ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and channel 56 and 38.

...and your kids were the remote control!

Shit, '6 T.V. channels' when I was a kid we only had one, the Australian ABC channel and that was in black and white.
We finally got our own commercial T.V. station in the late 60s and colour T.V. in the early 70s and even that was so cheaply funded it would only transmit from 5pm until 11pm each night and we'd run a household betting system based on how many times in a week it broke down during transmissions.
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Level 8

Hey those were the shit back in the day.

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Level 7

I remember my dad building our first color TV from Heathkit. He also built the first electronic calculator the neighborhood had seen.

I can remember Dad coming home and seeing us watching a black and white movie... Man did he ever get upset...

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Level 9

Yeah, I had one.

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Level 7

Yes, I remember them. Some of them had great sounding Fisher tube receivers in them.

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Level 9

i remember those

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Level 9

Big honkin' Spanish-Mediterranean monstrosity. LOL

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Level 9

We had one.

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