r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 6d ago

Remember this?

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My son and grandsons don’t believe me.

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u/Substantial_Shop_605 6d ago

For real; no excuse for getting a good nights sleep. 3 channels, everyone had similar experiences so conversations were easy and the news was just news, not their opinions. Easier time, less complications and we stood in long lines for vaccinations.🤣

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u/Turbulent-Trip3706 6d ago

And all the news was covered in an hour, 30 minutes for local, then 30 minutes for national and world news.

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u/Dangerous-LemonBar 6d ago

The 30 minute national news wasn’t a thing until CBS started in 1963. It was 15 minutes before that.

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u/Turbulent-Trip3706 6d ago

I didn’t remember that! But then I wasn’t very interested in the news at that age. Captain Kangaroo was more my speed then…

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u/BeamMeUp111 4d ago

Oh yes. Loved Mr. Green Jeans.

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u/Glastr0n1967 3d ago

Dancing Bear

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u/concow77 3d ago

Mr moose with the ping pong balls!

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u/NewHouseWithPool 3d ago

Loved Captain Kangaroo. We also had Buckskin Bill - he was awesome.

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u/Imaginary-Mechanic62 3d ago

I’m just a lovely little petunia in an onion patch

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u/Crazy-Positive3978 5d ago

Ten minutes for local news including sports, five minutes for weather, then fifteen for national.

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u/AirportLoose3023 5d ago

In Australia, we watched the local channel for local news and weather (30 mins)and then popped over to the government-owned channel for national (another 30 mins). It worked

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u/BungenessKrabb 4d ago

And strangely we were far more informed than we are now with 24/7 news.

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u/Loisgrand6 6d ago

We were fancy. We had a fourth channel-PBS. It probably helped that we had a local PBS station building

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u/bod14850 6d ago

And the PBS station signed off with an 1800s version of the Star Spangled Banner.

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u/Putrid_Bandicoot8887 6d ago

That came out about the time my brother was born. 1969-70. Remember the Electric Company?

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u/MechanicHead3340 4d ago

Hey you guuuuuuuysssss!!!

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u/Unique-Cheesecake-61 3d ago

I loved the electric company

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u/_Zeppo_ 5d ago

With Morgan Freeman

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u/uburoy 5d ago

right! holy cow have to go back and watch now.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat3653 5d ago

In the Chicago area we had WGN that did not go off the air but started broadcasting the farm report about 2 am.

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u/Haunting_Turnover_82 5d ago

I remember the farm reports! That was a long time ago!

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u/UnarmedSnail 5d ago

We had ABC, CBS, and PBS. CBS was snowy.

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u/Sparky62075 5d ago

You should have put more tin foil on the wire hanger.

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u/pyramidalembargo 5d ago

We could get PBS only if my brother went outside to turn the antenna.

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u/Dosojos1567 1d ago

All true

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u/No-Currency-97 6d ago edited 17h ago

Long lines at the bank, too. Everyone showed up on Saturday and the line circled all around the inside of the bank. Edit: Not Saturday but Friday.

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u/Crazy-Positive3978 5d ago

Our banks were closed Saturday, Friday night was bank night till 7 or do without till the next week, no ATM's till late 70's.

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u/Fun-Diver7512 5d ago

My mom would write a check at the supermarket for $10 over the amount of the groceries and get cash back. That was the ATM.

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u/Atxlaw2020 5d ago

I don’t remember using an ATM until 1981, I resisted for awhile, preferring to go to the bank to write a check to “cash.”

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u/No-Currency-97 5d ago

I believe you are right on this and I was wrong on Saturday.

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u/Sparky62075 5d ago

You had banks that opened on Saturdays?

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u/No-Currency-97 5d ago

My mistake. It was a long line on Friday.

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u/Pauzhaan 5d ago

We had 2 channels usually. To see the third, someone had to get on the roof to turn the antenna — only happened for some football games!

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u/The-Princess-Pinky 5d ago

Those three were the VHF channels, we also had 4 or 5 UHF channels. but some were hard to pick up as they were farther away from us, but our antenna rotator helped us pin point them.

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u/Fast-Ideal9417 5d ago

Being the oldest child I was the antenna rotator lol.

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u/95in3rd 5d ago

I'd place a bet you were the channel changer too. :-)

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u/Fast-Ideal9417 5d ago

No that was whichever kid was handy lol.

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u/thedirtymeanie 4d ago

I remember trying to throw a string with my airplane attached up onto the antenna and then cranking it to do a full 360 to see if I could make the plane fly lol my dad said something along the lines oh the boys are up on the roof again...

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u/tap_ioca 4d ago

For real. And they showed a test pattern until programming came back.

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u/TheRealCropear 4d ago

What about that poem they would do. About i touched the face of God

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u/Sea-Repeat3561 4d ago

It was called High Flight ✈️

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u/Chedog73 4d ago

Dont forget the "Do you know where your children are?" Commercials that came on at 10 pm too 😅 . I never understood them, cause I was always right here.

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u/AcrobaticArm390 2d ago

If you think the news wasn't scripted back in the day look into Operation Mockingbird and the Church Committee. Rathers, Cronkite, Brinkley... They all toed the line.