Knowledge Is Power
Sometimes when I am not feeling well I think of things from my past. I don't know why my mind runs back through old memories.
One of the better memories I have was watching Saturday morning cartoons. Mixed in was always the Schoolhouse Rock videos. I didn't mind learning a little something from them even though it was a Saturday.
They made learning fun. To this day every once in a while one of the songs will pop into my head. They stuck with me all of these years. One of the better things from that era.
So,
This is actually how I learned about the preamble and remember it.
I'd like to comment but Schoolhouse Rock was after my time. Howdy Doody or Ding Dong School and I'm in.
Yeah, I'm a gen x er.
I do remember seeing reruns of the Micky Mouse Club.
This is what I think they should have named the drone that took flight from the Mars rover.
They didn't have TV when I was a kid.
We just had a black and white TV. We only had 3 channels but my dad had a wireless voice activated remote control. "Hey, turn it to channel 3."
And you rushed the TV...LOL
He was probably already there. Somebody had to hold the rabbit ear antenna to get decent reception.
Add aluminum foil for a sail...
My grandparents lived in a "holler" in WV. They had terrible TV reception, so Grandpa put an antenna on the ridge above their house and ran a cable to the TV. It worked pretty well, but had its drawbacks. If the wind blew the antenna around, somebody had to go out in the weather, hike up the hill (usually in the dark) and adjust it according to yelled instructions out the window. "Better, better - shit, now I can't see anything! Back the other way!" Also, the cable ran across the side yard at about head height, so we kids had to be careful not to clothesline ourselves when we were riding our bikes. Sometimes we forgot.
Haha
I can picture it.
We got 4 or 5 channels. We were close to Baltimore and DC.
Remember old DC channel 5? We got 3(local).and DC 4.5, 7 and 9
I remember that when the TV (a black and white TV, of course) wasn't working quite right we would walk over and give it a swift pound on top with our fist. That usually did the trick.
That would actually work.
Ears, what ears?
Awww just too cute.
I'm just a bill and I'm sitting here on capitol hill....
Love it! Thanks for posting, "I'm Just A Bill (Schoolhouse Rock!)" Because now I am sure I know what you are talking about (the short clips that would run on Saturdays between morning cartoons and stuff.
For a moment (up top) I thought there was some 30 minute show called (Schoolhouse Rock!) Though, I should have know better than to think that - seeing "Conjuction Junction-What's Your Function" should have been my clue!
Yes, I first enjoyed television in Black and White, aww memories. . . "Dark Shadows" in Black and White. It was all so 'simple' then. . . . Or, not. But that's a whole 'nother accounting to set in on!
"Big 3" stations. . . and still they remain so for whole swaths of the country that don't want to participate in the dream of too much 'watching' tv!
This is great! I used to love this when I was a kid!
Anyone here old enough to remember the best of old time radio?
The first TV show I saw was Kukla, Fran, and Ollie on a small round black and white screen coming out of a Chicago station
Old enough to remember that one, "Mr. Ed." and "My Three Sons" too! (Loved, "My Three Sons.")