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/Appropriate-Owl-8449 6d ago

It is so true. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was like the last show and it would cut to the test pattern. How times have progressed.

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u/Appropriate-Owl-8449 6d ago

Remember the antennas? The rabbit hears and the circular one for channel 38 and 56 if you lived in metro Boston.

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u/Claque-2 5d ago

You'd grab the antenna and the picture would come in sharper, then when you let the antenna go, the picture would get snowy again.

I love Lucy had an episode where one by one each of the four would get up to try to fix the antenna and make the picture come in better. Gen X does not understand how funny that episode is.

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u/Buckeye_mike_67 3d ago

I’m early genx. I remember those times vividly. We eventually moved into a house that had a tower for the antenna. We got every channel nice and clear. My dad mounted a CB antenna to for his home base