Question For Senior DISsers

[maxaroni]

1966. My mom was shopping in town, passed by a color tv in the window and came home so excited. She begged my dad, took him to see it and that was that. I was so excited to have a color tv.

 

[GAN]

Oh, man, been there. I had a little set in my tiny bedroom and a broke off the top of the antenna. I clipped a coat-hanger and used it inside the antenna to hold it then wrapped it in foil at the break. It seemed to do just fine.

Man, it's no fun these days where we can't really MacGyver our electronics and all.

Nahhh …that was too much work. If you pounded it on it just right it improved reception

 

[ncc1701]

Sometime in 1970-71. Our neighbor got theirs in 1969 before the Moon landing. My sister & I went over to their home to watch. Even though the Moon picture was black & white , Walter Cronkite & Wally Schirra were in Color.

 

[loves to dive]

It was somewhere around 70 or 71. I don't remember the exact year but I do remember the first thing I saw in color on it. It was the opening to Disney with tinkerbell. I also remember the first time I saw Wizard of Oz on it. Up to that point I had seen it only in black and white so when it went from black and white to color, I was amazed. Boy, do I feel old now.

 

[disykat]

I'm guessing around 1972?

I got my own tv the first time in 1983 (after college) and it was a 13inch black and white. I did have roommates with color tv's though at times. When I married, my husband also had a black and white and we bought our first color tv and vcr in 1991 with wedding money. My husband had a computer, but neither of us had a microwave. It was very common (in my group of friends anyway) to live very low budget in your 20's and put off those kind of purchases until you were "settled."

 

[amcnj]

I can’t say the exact year, but it must have been in the 1960’s. I do remember they were not yet common in my neighborhood, and the only reason we got one was because my mother won it in a raffle. Otherwise I don’t know how long it would have been till we purchased one. About ten years later I won a portable tv at my high school graduation and it was black and white.

 

[jo-jo]

It was somewhere around 70 or 71. I don't remember the exact year but I do remember the first thing I saw in color on it. It was the opening to Disney with tinkerbell. I also remember the first time I saw Wizard of Oz on it. Up to that point I had seen it only in black and white so when it went from black and white to color, I was amazed. Boy, do I feel old now.

Better feeling old than stupid. For years, I believed the reason the movie was part black and white and part color was because right in the middle of filming, color film/tv was invented. I had no idea it was for effect.

No idea about the tv. I remember at someone's else house seeing the NBC peacock for the first time. Remember how shows would say "in living color" I don't remember this, but was told with my older sister, they had a plastic screen with colors on it, you would place on your tv. So you could watch Wagon Train with a blue sky and green grass. Never mind you also had blue people and green horses.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Mid 60's I'm thinking.

 

[disneyseniors]

As far as the antenna goes, sometimes we had to hold the rabbit ears out away from the tv for good reception. Then the tv console was moved closer. I remember standing with my arm stretched out trying to get a better picture.
This might be slightly off topic, but does anyone remember playing pong on your black and white tv??? We could only play it for a little while(don't remember the exact time but it wasn't long) or it would "hurt" your tv set. We really thought it was exciting, LOL.

 

[Babs Johnson]

I was out furniture browsing today and chanced upon these antennas.

 

[AprilsZoo]

I was born late ‘60’s… I don’t have a specific memory of getting a first color tv. We just always had one— I can narrow it down to prior to 1970 because one of my earliest memories is watching Sesame Street [‘69] and the Electric Company [‘71] in color.

Also in the early 1970’s there was a local morning kids’ cartoon show known as Wallace & Ladmo. I only remember ever watching it in color.

I think 1969. My Father had a huge Decca tv, and spent hours playing with valves. I recall when the first man landed on the moon, the whole village crowded around the television to watch.

Do you mean he liked to fiddle with vacuum tubes? Can’t say as I’ve ever heard of a tv with valves?

We also had more than one of the console-type TV’s over the years. Those puppies were *heavy* !!

I was out furniture browsing today and chanced upon these antennas.

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I’ll admit… it took me a second to get it.

 

[Jangles]

I was born late ‘60’s… I don’t have a specific memory of getting a first color tv. We just always had one— I can narrow it down to prior to 1970 because one of my earliest memories is watching Sesame Street [‘69] and the Electric Company [‘71] in color.

Also in the early 1970’s there was a local morning kids’ cartoon show known as Wallace & Ladmo. I only remember ever watching it in color.


Do you mean he liked to fiddle with vacuum tubes? Can’t say as I’ve ever heard of a tv with valves?

We also had more than one of the console-type TV’s over the years. Those puppies were *heavy* !!




I’ll admit… it took me a second to get it.

In the U.K. they are called valves, but they are the same as the tubes that you are referring to.
In those days, children were required to be as silent as a mouse when the television was on, particularly the BBC news!

 

[lovesmurfs]

We were late adopters. Must've been about 1977-1978. The first color show we watched was The Love Boat. Don't know why we first turned it on in the evening?

 

[ronandannette]

About 1965. A Magnavox. A great looking piece of furniture and but a very good TV, it constantly needed repairs. Because the cabinet looked so good, my mom still had it in 2013 when she passed away, decades after the TV had stopped working.
My mom was so excited to see the NBC Peacock in color for the first time.

My grandma kept the Zenith too, although it still was in decent working order. When I moved out on my own in '88, I asked her if I could have it. Hauled the big, dumb lump all the way to Calgary only to realize it didn't have any cable inputs (duh), so it ended up as a stand for the modern TV I then had to buy, just like it had been at her house.

 

[tvguy]

My grandma kept the Zenith too, although it still was in decent working order. When I moved out on my own in '88, I asked her if I could have it. Hauled the big, dumb lump all the way to Calgary only to realize it didn't have any cable inputs (duh), so it ended up as a stand for the modern TV I then had to buy, just like it had been at her house.

All you needed was a $2 adapter to hook it up to cable.