Do you remember how many channels we had growing up? Or depending on where you lived how you got you programs? I remember our lil 13” Magnavox. It had UHF and VHF. And even growing up in SF we had to adjust the rabbit ears and even wrap aluminum foil around them to get decent reception. And we would have to use the secondary knobs to eliminate the fuzz. HECK sometimes we would have to turn the dial halfway in-between 4 and five to get a channel in.
I can remember my grandparent’s lil Sony Trinitron Digital Color TV. Then My Aunt got it and a hundred years later I got it. Man this thing was fancy. If the channels were jacked up ya just opened it up and used the lil plastic Philips tuner driver to get it in. That thing was DOPE!!
We didn’t have DVR to watch our shows. Ya wanted to watch Falcons Crest, Dynasty, or who remembers the miniseries The Day After? Or V? As any of you growing up then ya can remember the looming threat of nuclear war. And that was what The Day After was about.
That was all the rage back then. For a few weeks up to the airing of it. We had a viewing at my grandparents’ house. My aunts, mom, brother, the ancient ones of course. After all it was their house. That was some pretty wild shit. We all tripped out on it.
What about the show V. That was what was up. Crazy ass show. Aliens taking over human’s n shit. WOW. I loved to watch the World’s Greatest American Hero with my grandfather. Or the Rockford Files. And FOOTBALL.
But back to what I was saying. If you wanted to watch something ya best are home and parked before the show started while baby john has to move the rabbit ears and stand with his left arm out and his right leg up and head cocked off to the right because of his fillings.
I can remember when my grandparents got their first VCR. DUUUUUUDE!!! That thing was the size of a freaking ford pinto!!! The tapes got inserted from the top. And when ya ejected them it opened up with such ferocity!! It was so forceful that it did a lil bunny hop! My grandfather wasn’t much of a technical kind of person. But he sure did like having the gadgets. The VCR even had a remote!! Attached to it was a 10 foot cord that plugged into the back. LOL it was still hella cool tho.
OH WAIT!!! We did have DVR, err VCR!! Grandpa started to record shows! WHAT RECORD LIVE TELIVISION?!?!??! What kind of demonology black magic is this!?!?!?!
OH boy that was fun to experience. AND THEN we figured out how to set a time to record!! Man how times have changed. It got to a point that my mother was starting to record her soaps. All My Children, General Hospital, the Young and the Restless and DARK Shadows! Or towers I can’t remember. I liked that show. I would get pissed that we would have to watch those stupid soaps!!
General Hospital was always the last soap. Then after that I could stop the VCR and watch a cpl hrs of cartons after school. We watched GI Joe, Transformers, G-Force, and a cpl whose names escape me. Then after that my buddy Bill and I would go kick it outside with our dolls… err transformers. They weren’t dolls the were FREAKIN ROBOTS THAT KILLED!!
Oh man there’s another one for ya. We watched some pretty violent shit for young’s. All the Death Wish movies. But when I was in 3rd-4th grade in San Carlos Ca We played war, we played cowboys and Indians, house and DR too ;)
I remember the kids from the hood and I gathering us all up to go play war. We did like Kelly’s Hero’s, The Big Red One. I had to be Chares Bronson or Lee Marvin, LOL. But we had so much fun fighting in the creeks and in this weird lil jungle.
And Saturday cartoons were when it was poppin. I couldn’t wake up to Goto School but boy would I get up early for cartoons!! “I’m Justa Bills, Sittin on capitol hill…” School House rocks baby!!!!
Well that’s about it for this chapter down memory lane. Again if ya been here before thx for swingin by again. If you’re new. HOLA!!!
Have A Happy Day And Don’t Forget To Be Awesome!!!
Says,
Yeti
