From: "Larry Friedman" <[log in to unmask]>
> Man, am I impressed! 3-4 channels? When we got our first television (a
Zenith round screen), we got a grand total of ONE channel. People would go
wherever there was a television set and watch test patterns and comment on
them ("Gee, yours is clearer than ours!"). I was born and brought up in
Utica, NY, and the closest city with another television station was
Syracuse, 50 miles away, but, being a bigger city, they had TWO channels. It
was years before we could pick up Syracuse stations, and when we finally
did, it was as if we could pick up China.
>
As well, most taverns had TV sets...where customers could watch boxing,
or sports events...!
Steven C. Barr
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