Grumpy Old Codger #2...What have you to say?
Well Monty...all this talk about them thar fancy picture boxes got me to thinking when my parents got their first color TV. It was about 1972 and they had to buy a whole house to get it. Upon their first move from the big city to the country the Ranch style home they bought had a 24" (huge at the time) Heath Kit TV built into the wall of the living room. The previous owner dabbled in electronics at the time and built it. The large chassis that housed the TV Tubes extended into the attached garage. It was built in high on the wall much like how big screens are now, and saved much room for furniture. My Dad loved it because when he sat in his new fangled Recliner Chair he could see the TV without looking through his bi-focal glasses which he turned upside down to watch TV before.
Must also note for the young-uns here that the measurements of the old TV's were not that of the actual viewing area which was always less that than measurement which were square and not rectangle like now.
Next question Grumpy Old Codgers....
remember the good times that you had when you had to get up from your comfy chair just to turn the dial to change the channel or wait until a family member got up and ask them to. Yes...the great times before Remote Controls. No channel surfing back then....then again...we only had 4 channels to choose from and for me, one of those were from Canada because we lived so close.
Well Monty...all this talk about them thar fancy picture boxes got me to thinking when my parents got their first color TV. It was about 1972 and they had to buy a whole house to get it. Upon their first move from the big city to the country the Ranch style home they bought had a 24" (huge at the time) Heath Kit TV built into the wall of the living room. The previous owner dabbled in electronics at the time and built it. The large chassis that housed the TV Tubes extended into the attached garage. It was built in high on the wall much like how big screens are now, and saved much room for furniture. My Dad loved it because when he sat in his new fangled Recliner Chair he could see the TV without looking through his bi-focal glasses which he turned upside down to watch TV before.
Must also note for the young-uns here that the measurements of the old TV's were not that of the actual viewing area which was always less that than measurement which were square and not rectangle like now.
Next question Grumpy Old Codgers....
remember the good times that you had when you had to get up from your comfy chair just to turn the dial to change the channel or wait until a family member got up and ask them to. Yes...the great times before Remote Controls. No channel surfing back then....then again...we only had 4 channels to choose from and for me, one of those were from Canada because we lived so close.
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