How many tvs did your childhood home have?

[Spinneret]

3

 

[citruscurtis]

1..1960s ... today the size of stove top microwave and never larger... family disenfranchised and never have had a tv larger until now

 

[aka Charles]

Two.
One color TV connected to an outside antenna.
One black and white TV with rabbit ears (antenna).
.

 

[goofyernmost]

From 0 to 8 none at all. We went to the neighbors to watch Capt. Kangaroo.
8 to 24 and married equaled 1. Later we got a larger screen for the living room and a small (almost invisible) one for the bedroom.
From age 25 til about 45 I spent more of the time explaining why the kids couldn't have their own. (Because I said so)
54 to present just 1 but it is a big mama jama.

 

[MICKIMINI]

1 black and white until we got a color tv late 1960's? Color tv was a fancy console, likely from Sears LOL. My Dad had to replace tubes all the time. We had to spin the antenna on top of the tv to get channel 38 (Boston) so Mom could watch the Bruins but it was still fuzzy.

DH and I have 5 tv's now including one in the garage for him...didn't see that happening even a few years ago. We got a 32" and mounted it above his tool bench. Mr Fix It can now watch YT on how to fix whatever on the vintage car or listen to music videos. For less than $150 it made him VERY HAPPY!

 

[mort1331]

1 with 5 channels. We were spoiled...but learned to love board games and the great outdoors.

 

[MamaMermaid]

3 - living room, den, and my parent's bedroom.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

One console one, in a cabinet in the living room. Then grandmother moved in with us and she had to have a tv in her room, so we got a small portable one for her.

 

[TippyThomas]

The various foster homes had 1 to 3 tv's from what I can remember. There were no tv's in our home after I was adopted.

 

[NAB]

1 floor model in the basement . With 6 kids there were some fights who got to watch what when…lol

Now we have 2 one in the basement my husband watches and one in the family room I watch.

 

[NannyBeBe]

We had one large black-and-white console TV in the living room. One of our neighbors got a color TV when they first came. She invited everyone over to watch Bonanza. We were amazed.

 

[Mizzoufan]

One

 

[barkley]

one as a kid-first a black and white and when it died mom convinced dad to get one of those big beautiful solid wood consoles with a color tv, am/fm radio and a stereo in it (I think one of my brother's friends converted the unit into a bar when everything had died out about 30 years later ). I remember at some point as a teen my parents getting a small black and white for their bedroom.

NOW? we have 5 with 3 in actual use b/c I don't think my youngest ever watches anything on his and one is a 'spare' that is stored (as the main tv's have 'worn out' or we wanted better they replaced the smaller in the primary bedroom which sent that one to one of the other bedrooms....we are to a point where if one of the bedroom's goes out we have a backup).

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Best I can remember we had the good old "console TV" in the den, and a smaller TV on a cart that we could move from room to room. I think there was also a small b/w TV in the kitchen... so I am thinking the total was 3.

 

[Willow Ufgood]

We had a lot of televisions because Dad had gone to school for TV repair during one of his many layoffs. He would salvage sets from people's trash and then repair them in the garage. Sometimes he cannibalized parts from different sets to make one working TV. There were times that we would have a smaller TV sitting atop of a larger TV to be tested for a week before he would put it up for sale in the local paper.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

ONE and somehow it was just fine!!! and oh, so many years ago!

 

[tvguy]

Most of my childhood, one. Black and white until I was about 7, then we got a color TV. That was about 1965. When the color tv died my mom moved it into the Living room because "it was too nice a piece of furniture to throw out". So we had two then, but only one that worked. When my mom passed away in 2013 I took the nice piece of furniture TV to the dump. It had been in the house nearly 50 years, only the first 10 or so was it working.
And yes, we had 4 channels. ABC, CBS, NBC and NET. NET later became PBS.

 

[bluecruiser]

Two console color TVs, one in the family room and one in the living room. Both were built from Heathkit kits, one by my father alone and the second mostly him with a little assistance by my brothers and me. I was surprised to see that the Heathkit company still exists, although they don't do TV kits now.

 

[Praying Colonel]

We had 1 TV until I was about 13, when we got a 2nd one.

Which brings up a painful moment from my childhood...

Mondays at 8 ET, SWAT came on ABC. I loved that show. When we got the 2nd TV I got evicted and had to watch it on TV #2.

But my sister fell in love with Little House On The Prairie, which came on at 8 ET on NBC. And in the pre-VCR days, there was no way to record a show. So we had to compromise.

My suggestion was one week I got to watch SWAT, and the next week my sister got to watch Little House. Instead, my mother decided that I would get to watch the first 30 minutes of SWAT, and my sister got to watch the last 30 minutes of Little House. Which was a terrible decision, because she got to watch the ending of Little House every week, and I never got to watch the ending of my SWAT episode. Just terrible!

l finally gave up and never watched SWAT again. Perhaps coincidentally--perhaps not--SWAT was cancelled after 2 seasons.

 

[georgina]

We had one black and white TV, and watching was quite restricted. I think my parents got a color TV when my dad retired in 1983, I was in college then.