[AT] OT: Flashback - Early Farmers Building County Roads

[Rob Gray]

I'm younger than many on this board, but I'm starting to get old enough 
to tell "old timer" type of stories to the new, younger employees at 
work. I thought the reaction of disbelief was  funny when I told about 
how when I was a kid you would turn on the black and white TV on a 
Saturday morning anticipating cartoons and you had to wait for the TV 
station to begin broadcasting for the day. They couldn't believe the TV 
stations weren't broadcasting 24 hours a day. They really thought I was 
making things up when I tried to explain the test pattern that came on 
before the first show of the day. lol




DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:

>I was in the 8th grade when we got our first TV it was an Admiral 17 in. I  
>remember in those days we had to put a 40 ft. pole on the roof to get the  
>stations out of Frisco about 125 miles away. It was hit or miss sometimes just  
>clean and clear and other days more snow than picture. Kids today don't know  
>what snow on a TV is all about, we should teach them about it so that it will  
>always be a part of the early days of TV. 
>I have a 1947 Magnavox Radio, Record Player and TV.  It cost the  original 
>owners $800 when new. A Chevy cost about $600 back then if you could  get one.   
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>Walt  Davies
>Cooper Hollow Farm
>Monmouth, OR 97361
>503 623-0460 
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