Location, Location, Location

[Sandy G]

Another thing I think we fail to realise nowadays is how DIFFERENT it was 50-60 years ago...A LOT of people, at least around here, spent their whole lives in no more than a 25-mile radius of where they were born...I've had quite a few people of my parents' generation tell me that going to Knoxville was a 2X a year extravaganza...A TV at $279 or so, was BIG money, I mean we're talkin' "2nd car big money"...We didn't have county-wide electricity here til 1952, & if you had water outside of a town, it was likely from a well. Many houses still had "little shacks out back", people were desperately poor, a TV was an almost unimaginable luxury. WE had a color set from 1964 on, getting a Porta-Color in '66, but I knew quite a few people who didn't have color TV til the '70s.