I Remember.......

[Slydell]

I remember when we slept in our beds and didn't even lock the front door

That and I remember when we'd leave in the summer for our cross country trip of two months and not lock the doors.

 

[Abe Hoffman]

I remember when our telephone was on a party line with four of our neighbors.

 

[Coastypop]

I remember party lines and each time the phone rang you had to listen to make sure it was for you...

 

[Abe Hoffman]

I remember party lines and each time the phone rang you had to listen to make sure it was for you...

Things have really changed. Now it is the NSA listening to your phone calls.

 

[Coastypop]

I remember when being made to come inside the house was considered cruel punishment by children..... now it is being made to go outside

 

[vol_in_ar]

that's a fact, I've created an electornic nightmare with Game consoles, Ipads, and laptops

 

[Slydell]

 

[Abe Hoffman]

I remember when you needed a church key to open a can of beer.

 

[BadJerry20]

I remember when being made to come inside the house was considered cruel punishment by children..... now it is being made to go outside

Yup. I went inside to eat and sleep, that was it.

 

[LouderVol]

I remember calling up a girl and being terrified that her dad would answer

 

[Coastypop]

I remember calling up a girl and being terrified that her dad would answer

ha ha ... you called a girl? likely story

 

[LouderVol]

ha ha ... you called a girl? likely story

yeah sorry its not as exciting as you using smoke signals back in the day. usually they were the ones calling me.

 

[Abe Hoffman]

I remember when the Milk Man delivered milk to your door.

 

[Slydell]

So do I. Good times. The milkman, Jewel Tea man and the same postman every day.

 

[northknoxvol]

I remember 6 8 and 10 being the only channels on tv.....and when 43 came on it was epic

 

[LouderVol]

So do I. Good times. The milkman, Jewel Tea man and the same postman every day.

I remember when you could set your watch by the postman. 10:35 every fricking day

 

[Coastypop]

I remember 6 8 and 10 being the only channels on tv.....and when 43 came on it was epic

I remember when we had the only television on our old country road and the neighbors would all come over and watch wrestling on Saturday night...

Seems we could only get two channels and I think it was 6 and 10

 

[Slydell]

I remember when we had the only television on our old country road and the neighbors would all come over and watch wrestling on Saturday night...

Seems we could only get two channels and I think it was 6 and 10

26?

 

[Coastypop]

26?

I was thinking that those first televisions only came with uhf(?) and vhf(?) and we could not get 26 at the time

26 was an ABC channel and 10 and 6 were CBS and NBC

at anyrate we only recieved CBS and NBC iirc

 

[Slydell]

My first TV memories are of 6 and 26. Channel 10 came later.

 

[Coastypop]

My first TV memories are of 6 and 26. Channel 10 came later.

You proablly have a better memory than mine and I may have the channels mixed a little. What I do remember is one of the channels we could not get because of our set and I was thinking that was 26?

At my steady rate of decline in mind that could be wrong

 

[Slydell]

You proablly have a better memory than mine and I may have the channels mixed a little. What I do remember is one of the channels we could not get because of our set and I was thinking that was 26?

At my steady rate of decline in mind that could be wrong

6 and 10 were the ones that always came in clear. 26 was a bit touchy.

 

[Coastypop]

6 and 10 were the ones that always came in clear. 26 was a bit touchy.

I did a little research and this is why I remember it the way I did

WVLT-TV debuted on October 18, 1953 as WSKT-TV on channel 26. It was Tennessee's first UHF station, and the second television station in East Tennessee, signing on just a few hours after WROL-TV in Knoxville (channel 6, now WATE-TV). The station was a CBS affiliate, but also shared ABC programming with WROL-TV.

Channel 26 found the going difficult at first, since television manufacturers weren't required to build in UHF tuning capability at the time. Viewers needed an expensive converter to watch WSKT, and even then the picture quality was marginal at best

WBIR-TV signed on the air on August 12, 1956 as an affiliate of the CBS


The problem with 26 was out in the mountains we could not recieve it and didn't have the proper television so that is why I remember 10 and 6 as first...It was first for Me LOL

 

[Slydell]

Yeah, I remember 26 as being UHF and hard to receive. Wasn't aware a special set was needed. Our first TV looked something like this.

 

[Coastypop]

That one looks kinda like ours

This is the best television I ever owned...lasted about 26 yrs and was working fine when I bought another