Meagain
04-16-2006, 02:47 PM
I remember our first TV set.
Musta been 1955 or so. It was a black and white Majestic. Had a little brass flying eagle between the knobs and was contained in a wooden box. Had a 12" screen I believe.
It sat on the hand built counter in the living room of our foundation. The upper part of the house wasn't built yet, so we lived in the basement. The roof was flat and coated with tar paper so when it rained we'd put buckets and pans around to catch the water that dripped through the leaks.
The house sat on a hill with farms to the north and east, an old strip/shaft mine to the west, a four lane highway south, and across the highway another farm bordered by an old deep shaft coal mine.
During the day you could see for miles in any direction as most of the trees on the hill top were gone, at night the western sky would light up from the steel mills in Pittsburgh twenty miles away.
All the TV stations would sign off about one o'clock at night and return at five or six in the morning. We'd get up early saturdays and watch the test patterns until RFD #4 came on with the farm report. But that was later when we moved upstairs.
Musta been 1955 or so. It was a black and white Majestic. Had a little brass flying eagle between the knobs and was contained in a wooden box. Had a 12" screen I believe.
It sat on the hand built counter in the living room of our foundation. The upper part of the house wasn't built yet, so we lived in the basement. The roof was flat and coated with tar paper so when it rained we'd put buckets and pans around to catch the water that dripped through the leaks.
The house sat on a hill with farms to the north and east, an old strip/shaft mine to the west, a four lane highway south, and across the highway another farm bordered by an old deep shaft coal mine.
During the day you could see for miles in any direction as most of the trees on the hill top were gone, at night the western sky would light up from the steel mills in Pittsburgh twenty miles away.
All the TV stations would sign off about one o'clock at night and return at five or six in the morning. We'd get up early saturdays and watch the test patterns until RFD #4 came on with the farm report. But that was later when we moved upstairs.