Comments on: "I Bet It's Pretty in Color"

By: Mayt

Mayt — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:08:16 +0000

I grew up with a 10 inch black and white (and 7 siblings!). Currently I don’t have a TV – and don’t miss it. I have internet and can watch the fireplace for excitement.

By: marilyn

marilyn — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:07:32 +0000

My grandparents bought a sheet of plastic to put on their tv to turn it into a color picture … and it was … like a rainbow, red, green, and blue! We were all so dissappointed. I remember Grandpa sitting in front of the tv watching a cartoon and shaking his head back and forth saying he just didn’t know how they got it all on there.

By: Greg England

Greg England — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:13:22 +0000

I was absolutely fascinated by color and our first was much like your experience. The color was horrible, but it was color! I have vivid memories (of little else) of that old black and white set with the oval picture tube.

By: Lance

Lance — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:22:35 +0000

I have only ever known color TV’s. I do remember one time when my dad and I were watching a magic show. The magician waved his hands to make the girl disappear….and so did the picture. The TV never worked again after that. Personally I think dad should have written that guy a letter asking for a new TV. We were poor and it was a long time before we got another. Oh well!

By: ashley

ashley — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:13:23 +0000

Some day I’d love for you to help me understand cricket. When I was in Scotland there was a cricket match on for what seemed like a week. I was bound and determend to figure out what was going on. Never did!

By: Dee Andrews

Dee Andrews — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:03:23 +0000

I grew up with small black and white TVs. My parents didn’t get a color one until long after I’d left home in the mid 60s. But, my parents’ best friends at church owned a TV retail/repair business, so they always had the latest, biggest, best color TV in their home one could buy after color TVs first came out.

So, sometimes, on New Year’s Day, we would go over to their house to watch the Rose Bowl parade in grand, glorious color (or so we thought at the time). Of course, looking back now, I realize how poor the color quality really was then, like you say.

Tom grew up without ever having or seeing TV at all because his family was so poor. The first TV he ever owned was after he was a young adult and married with a family. But, he literally grew up in movie theaters with his dad and ran the projectors every day and night once he was old enough, so was – and still is – a HUGE movie buff.

Now, we have a really big HDTV and absolutely love it! But, you’re right, Patrick, that there lies within us all – or at least most of us – a greater creative potential than we’ll ever be able to achieve.

Enjoyed this post – as always.

Happy New Year and many blessings to you all!

Dee

P. S. We didn’t even turn the TV on, much less watch the Rose Bowl parade yesterday morning. We’re pretty jaded about it all any more thinking that if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. My, how times have changed.

By: Jim MacKenzie

Jim MacKenzie — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:06:59 +0000

We had a monochrome as well in the 60’s. I, being the youngest son, had a distinct job on Saturday night. If you are a Canadian reading this, you know there is only one thing on CBC on Saturday night – HOCKEY. My job, because of our TV’s problems with the horizontal hold, was to sit close enough to the TV to bang on it whenever the screen started to “flip”. All the way through the game… flip… bang… flip… bang…

By: Danny Gill

Danny Gill — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:33:47 +0000

When I was little, I thought our TV was a color TV because the case was brown. Being colorblind, I could sometimes see what I interpreted as color on a black-and-white TV. So I’ve always had a vivid imagination.

By: Eric S. Mueller

Eric S. Mueller — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:23:42 +0000

We mostly had color TV’s. There was a point in my early teens when I had a Black and White in my bedroom, and I’d watch Saturday morning cartoons or after school I’d watch Star Trek on it.

One thing I don’t miss about the past are rabbit ears. I hated the TV antenna, which was never in a decent adjustment, and every time a vacuum or microwave ran the picture scrambled. I’ll take a shielded cable input any day of the week.

By: That Girl

That Girl — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:34:21 +0000

We had a black and white but my grandparents had a color TV. I remember my mother calling Mamaw one night to find out what color dress some actress was watching.