My father was a Juke box operator and he had " connections " to obtain the 1st TY sets as the were produced. He was getting them for the taverns & diners where he had Juke Box locations. When the very first shipment arrived, they were Olympic 6" round screens & he brought one set home for us. Jay Sonin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven C. Barr" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 6:49 PM Subject: [ARSCLIST] TV--was:: [ARSCLIST] NY City Phone exchanges; was - Tone-Arts Records > 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 >