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Summer Practice Highlights June 2023 ... 7/27, it's now "I went from Silent Movies to Black & White T.V to Colored T.V." Apologies to I Bleed Blue

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We were the only family that I ever knew who had a Beta VCR. According to my dad, the quality was better…but it was nearly impossible to find a video store that rented Beta movies.

We had to turn the rotor/antenna on top of the house toward NY to get Yankee games on Channel 11.
 
StllH8L8ner said:
We were the only family that I ever knew who had a Beta VCR. According to my dad, the quality was better…but it was nearly impossible to find a video store that rented Beta movies.
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StllH8L8ner said:
We had to turn the rotor/antenna on top of the house toward NY to get Yankee games on Channel 11.
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Except when that crappy metal contraption on the roof was frozen solid in the winter and would not budge!
 
Huskygrad88 said:
Except when that crappy metal contraption on the roof was frozen solid in the winter and would not budge!
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Yup this is us. The BY Boomers. Imagine how much the world has changed in our lifetime. Although an 88 grad year would put you right on the edge of the Boomer range. I remember they changed the dates as for awhile I was Gen X but then they moved the birth year up to 1965 so that made me a Boomer right on the cusp.
 
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SoCalCanine said:
I grew up in Fairfield, we got NY TV and Hartford and New Haven TV so relatively lots of channels. Had to listen to my Red Sox on the radio though, just about no TV.
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same here
had to use the antenna turner to get channel 3
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I watched the Dallas Vs Denver Super Bowl on a 12” Black and White television I got for Christmas. With todays options and technology, that seems like 100 years ago. You kids are spoiled nowadays
 
SoCalCanine said:
I grew up in Fairfield, we got NY TV and Hartford and New Haven TV so relatively lots of channels. Had to listen to my Red Sox on the radio though, just about no TV.
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You guys were lucky, I grew in Bridgeport. We could not afford a TV until I was 9/10. We did radio. I would listen to those far away stations which came in after sunset.
 
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It just occurred to me that if Cam Spencer earns nba money they’ll be a glitch in the matrix when Rutgers adds it to their total of earnings of players coached or cheered for by Rutgers coaches for at least one game…and we may reverse time
 
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SoCalCanine said:
BTW, our TVs had only VHF channels. We eventually got a UHF converter box that sat on top of the set, so we could then get channels higher than 13.
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We actually had subscription TV service through Channel 18 for about two years. One black and white TV for the entire house. I remember all the relatives coming over for the Cassius Clay vs Sonny Liston fight. What an upset that night! I had never laid eyes on a fighter like the winner. The Rangers had games on there but billing was basic service and add on for anything you watched. My family didn't have any hockey fans so we never watched any Rangers games. Channel 18 would send a monthly mini book out that had the program times and codes needed to input into the decoder box in order for the encrypted content to change to something watchable. I remember the first blockbuster movie I watched on there was "Mysterious Island" where some prisoners escaped from a civil war prison in an air balloon. Does anyone remember looking at Channel 18 programming when you did not decrypt it? The sound and picture were scrambled but you could still make out digitally scrambled images. I lived in Hartford. Channel 3 (CBS) was crystal clear. Channel 30 (NBC) was grainy clear. Channel 22 (NBC) slightly more grainy than 30. Channel 40 (IND) more grainy than 22 and Channel 8 (ABC) even more grainy. I can remember holding the rabbit ears in order to get a clearer picture on Channel 8 watching Wide World of Sports and the Olympics. I moved to West Haven during my high school years and the apartment complex had cable so I was thrilled to watch Channel 2 (CBS), Channel 4 (NBC), Channel 5 (IND), Channel 7 (ABC), Channel 9 (WOR/IND), Channel 11 (WPIX/IND) and Channel 13 (IND). The Mets were always (virtually every game) on Channel 9 (Ralph Kiner Lead) and the Yankees sometimes on Channel 11. Getting all the channels clear via cable was awesome to me. There were many late night movies on 9 and 11 and also late night was the Joe Franklin Show which showed old time movie clips from the early days of TV. My parents watched Channel 7 News because my parents loved Roger Grimsby the lead anchor and a young Geraldo Rivera who was always doing some expose work including a series on a mental health institute call WillowBrook (Upstate New York ) where his documentary was straight out of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest infamy. Being from small city (Hartford) and being exposed to all the NYC news was very interesting. I never imagined cable would become what it has became. I remember cartoons were on from about 08:00 to 11:00 every Saturday morning on the three major networks head to head and no other times during the week. There was no Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. There were no movie or sports channels. The kids today just don't know how great they have it with TV and the internet these days.
 
Sailor111 said:
We actually had subscription TV service through Channel 18 for about two years. One black and white TV for the entire house. I remember all the relatives coming over for the Cassius Clay vs Sonny Liston fight. What an upset that night! I had never laid eyes on a fighter like the winner. The Rangers had games on there but billing was basic service and add on for anything you watched. My family didn't have any hockey fans so we never watched any Rangers games. Channel 18 would send a monthly mini book out that had the program times and codes needed to input into the decoder box in order for the encrypted content to change to something watchable. I remember the first blockbuster movie I watched on there was "Mysterious Island" where some prisoners escaped from a civil war prison in an air balloon. Does anyone remember looking at Channel 18 programming when you did not decrypt it? The sound and picture were scrambled but you could still make out digitally scrambled images. I lived in Hartford. Channel 3 (CBS) was crystal clear. Channel 30 (NBC) was grainy clear. Channel 22 (NBC) slightly more grainy than 30. Channel 40 (IND) more grainy than 22 and Channel 8 (ABC) even more grainy. I can remember holding the rabbit ears in order to get a clearer picture on Channel 8 watching Wide World of Sports and the Olympics. I moved to West Haven during my high school years and the apartment complex had cable so I was thrilled to watch Channel 2 (CBS), Channel 4 (NBC), Channel 5 (IND), Channel 7 (ABC), Channel 9 (WOR/IND), Channel 11 (WPIX/IND) and Channel 13 (IND). The Mets were always (virtually every game) on Channel 9 (Ralph Kiner Lead) and the Yankees sometimes on Channel 11. Getting all the channels clear via cable was awesome to me. There were many late night movies on 9 and 11 and also late night was the Joe Franklin Show which showed old time movie clips from the early days of TV. My parents watched Channel 7 News because my parents loved Roger Grimsby the lead anchor and a young Geraldo Rivera who was always doing some expose work including a series on a mental health institute call WillowBrook (Upstate New York ) where his documentary was straight out of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest infamy. Being from small city (Hartford) and being exposed to all the NYC news was very interesting. I never imagined cable would become what it has became. I remember cartoons were on from about 08:00 to 11:00 every Saturday morning on the three major networks head to head and no other times during the week. There was no Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. There were no movie or sports channels. The kids today just don't know how great they have it with TV and the internet these days.
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Actually, I think that Willowbrook place may have been on Staten Island and it included both physically and mentally disabled people.
 
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Waquoit said:
Imagine a world without Gene Scott! I can't.
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It's a travesty that Melissa refuses to let Gene's old shows proliferate out in the wild so that current and future generations could enjoy the comedy as much as those of us born in the 50s and 60s. I'd actually pay to rewatch the episode where he told the band to keep playing the same song over and over and over until his viewership kicked in enough $$ to meet that night's goal.
 
I remember we had an 11” admiral TV and then we got a color with a 25” screen. Coolest thing ever. I also remember channel 18 being a pay station and my grandparents had it. I have no idea why they did, didn’t speak a word of English (French). Those were great days. When I was 8 I would leave the house at 9am with instructions to be home for dinner.
 
I was lucky. From East Haven we got channels 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,11,13 and the CT NBC
Channel. Although a few of those would only come in on a very goof day
 
I remember when my family got cable. Can't remember the provider. Cable box had about 15 push buttons and a toggle switch for a total of 30 stations. I'm think late spring of '73. Cable package came with a free month of HBO which was less than a year old. So I'm sitting in our den checking the cable box out and I get to HBO. First movie I ever watched on HBO was A Clockwork Orange! That movie literally blew my mind.
 
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