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Originally Posted by Einar72
Some of us simply came of age with these very sets being discussed on this site. My parents had a 17" Bendix, then a 21" GE with a book-sized remote. Our two Silvertone 23-inchers, bought in 1962 and 1967, were the typical "big screen" sets seen in most homes at the time. My grade-school had Admiral 23-inchers on tall carts. Dad bought a CTC-38 in 1969 when I started high school.
Imagine, if you will, spending the first 40 years of your life NOT having internet, cell phones or HDTV. I worry your head would explode from the boredom!
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I am 54 years old and did in fact spend the first 41 years of my life without the things you mention; however, I was not bored in the least.
I grew up with black-and-white TV, as that was all we ever had until 1972. I had a Silvertone (Sears) 21" roundie I got from one of my neighbors in 1970, but that set was in the basement most of the time. The first color set in our living room (a Silvertone 25" console) actually belonged to my grandmother, who moved into our house in '72 (very long story and OT).
The elementary school and middle school I attended in the '60s-'70s also had RCA Victor "New Vista" b&w 23" TVs on carts in the classrooms, fed by a master antenna system in grade school, but my middle school was still using rabbit ears on the sets. My grade school is long gone (the building was demolished several years ago), so I don't know what happened to those RCA NV sets; as to my middle school, I don't know whatever became of its TVs, either. They also had RCA New Vista TVs, 25" table models on carts. My fondest memories of those sets are of watching the morning news (the last few minutes of NBC's Today Show, decades before it went to four hours [!]) in my world-affairs class on one of those TVs in the back of the classroom. Being b&w and of course analog, there were no reception problems on any of the sets, even on indoor antennas; however, today, I would think (and would not be the least bit surprised if) the local high school, middle school and elementary school in my hometown are now wired for cable, and use flat-panel HDTVs.The RCA New Vista sets, unfortunately, may have been trashed, sent to a landfill, or goodness only knows what,
when the elementary school was demolished.