[ohohyodafarted]

How well I remember those days. I long for them too. I was in my late teens at the time my parents bought a 21" Zenith Roundie. That was 1965. Still have the set, and one day I am going to get it running again.

Prior to when my folks got our set, my younger brother and I would go down the block to the home of one of our buddies. His dad was a dentist and they already had a 21" Admiral roundie. On sunday night we would go to their home 3 doors down and watch Disney and Bonanza. I think our parents figured they better keep up with the Jones down the block so it wasn't long before mom and dad bought the Zenith for our family.

In the beginning we kept a 21" Philco B&W set right next to the color set. We only turned the color set on when there was a color broadcast. We were fortunate in that Milwaukee was a pioneer in Color. The NBC affiliate WTMJ chanel 4 was the 7th station in the country to have color equipment. So chanel 4 had in house local color equipment and all the local programs were in color even in 1965. So the evening news at 6 and 10 and other locally originated programs were in addition to the network color shows.

Before long the Philco B&W was retired and we only watched the Zenith color set. Being an electronic tinkerer by nature, I was always tinkering with the convergence and tweeking the controls to achieve a perfect picture. That set had a fantastic picture, and convergence was spot on.

But I digress.... I think times have changed so much that even the most revolutinary new product would have a hard time making a major impact on our way of life the way color did back in the 50's and 60's. And family is not what it used to be either. Kids don't have the same kind of connection with parents and family as they did when I was growing up. I can't even fathom what it would be like to raise kids today. So many negative forces at work in society that interfere with good family values. And the programs on tv are so lacking in good old fashioned family values today it's no wonder that tv is not the kind of thing that we remember so fondly.

Glad I am so old. The good years are long gone; at least for me, so I like to live in my old memories of what used to be. One of the old AM radio stations (WOKY 920) that I listened to in the late 50's and through the 60's has reseruected it's old top 40 format and are playing all the tunes from my high school days. I think many other people in my age group long for those days too. I am now listening to the old AM station again and remembering all the fun I had as a teenager.