[kx250rider]

I grew up in a middle-income section of West Los Angeles... In 1972-74 when I started being fascinated with TV sets, the households near us (mostly World War II vets with children grown & gone), had mainly one console color set (most still roundies), and their old B&W would be in the porch or in a back guest room. Not many had bedroom sets yet. A few; probably 10%, still had B&W-only households. A few (1 in 10) kids my age had a 9" or 12" B&W set of their own. My family had GE 21" B&W console in the livingroom, and my mother had a 12" Hitachi color set which she bought for herself in 1970. We couldn't afford a color console, and my Grandma didn't want one anyway. So that's why my mother bought herself the little Hitachi.

My wife says that in the upper income part of Dallas where she grew up, it was about the same. Most had at least one color set, and the difference being that most of her peers had a little B&W set in the kids rooms; as opposed to very few in my neighborhood. Also she recalls that some of the wealthiest had a TV-stereo-phono combo unit.

Charles