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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/23/17 07:01 PM
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We had 3 channels at the house. Granny was a mile up the road and she got 6 out of Birmingham and PBS on 25. Not sure why she could and we couldn't. We got excited when 48 out of Huntsville added a taller antenna. We could pick it up better. And when Fox 54 came to Huntsville, my dad got all excited. "We're going to get all kinds of good movies," he said. A TV was a piece of furniture back then too, in a big old wood or faux wood cabinet. I watched more TV then than I do now. I've about give up on it. Except for college football in the fall.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/23/17 07:05 PM
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I remember it,I am 39.You knew that you were up late when the stripes came on the tv..lol..My ol'man would send me outside to "turn the antenna" during football season and CBS would have half arse picture.He'd be knee deep in some Shiltz.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/23/17 08:14 PM
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I've got a ton of Beta cassettes, somewhere out in the shed, I think. I remember 8-tracks in cars being state-of-the-art stuff...and cassette tapes after that. News at 6:00 and 10:00, the "It's ten o'clock, do you know where you're children are?" PSA's, National Anthem at sign off/sign on, and test patterns in between. We had 2 channels, plus PBS...3 channels if the weather was just right and we could get channel 7 out of Panama City. That didn't happen often, usually it was 12 in Montgomery and 4 in Dothan, and of course PBS was 2. I grew up on military bases, so at the theatres they always played the National Anthem before movies, too, and everyone in the place stood and held their hand over their heart. There were gas stations where you'd pull in and an attendant would pump the gas, check the oil, and clean the windows for no extra charge, plus you got S&H Trading Stamps, a drinking glass (collect the whole set!) or some other gift just for doing business with them!
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/23/17 10:01 PM
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I'm 51 and I remember when TV signed off for the night.
I remember Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. I also remember The Midnight Special that came on late Friday night.
Kids now have no clue. Three regular channels and PBS were all we got. If you didn't see a movie in the theaters you might never see it period unless years later one of the networks decided to air it. No vcr's, no cable, no satelite, no netflix.
There was a great show that the ABC station out of Pensacola aired late Saturday nights when I was a young kid called popcorn theater. I would slip back out of bed and sit inches away from the TV with the sound turned way down so my parents wouldn't hear it. They showed movies. Mostly comedies and horror films. Because of that show I got to see most of the old Hammer Studio horror films with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, the Mummy, etc, etc. Also got to see a lot of the classic comedies by Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers, W C Fields, etc. Good memories.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Clem]
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03/23/17 11:29 PM
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Midnight, "Station is signing off for the day" message and the national anthem.
5 a.m., "Station is signing on for the day" message, national anthem, morning news.
I remember when the NWS weather forecasts started being played all night and then cable began. HBO movies? Cool. MTV videos at night? Same rotation every hour or two, but it was something to watch. ESPN, sports and Australian Rules Football on 24 hours a day? Holy cow.
(BTW, Aussie Rules Football was ESPN's top-ranked show for many years because it was different, brutal and appealed to the young male demographic. Back then, in the olden days of the early 1980s, they got huge ratings when they showed a match.)
Remember back when ESPN used to show PKA Karate. "Bad" Brad Hefton was one of the top fighters.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: DEADorALIVE]
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03/23/17 11:33 PM
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...There were gas stations where you'd pull in and an attendant would pump the gas, check the oil, and clean the windows for no extra charge, plus you got S&H Trading Stamps, a drinking glass (collect the whole set!) or some other gift just for doing business with them! That was one of my first jobs at the Citgo on the corner in Cahaba Heights. I had a shirt with my name on it, I would pump gas, clean the windshield, check the oil and fluid levels, and check the air in the tires and get a tip too. Seems like I made something like $1.35 an hour.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/24/17 12:17 AM
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"Oh, the stations up here they don't sign off with Dixie,
Well they did in Sweet Home Ala-bam".
Younger ones won't get that. I think signing off with Dixie might have been a radio thing. Anyone remember? I ain't as old as Troy, but pretty close.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
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03/24/17 12:23 AM
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When the Chattanooga stations signed off at night they played the video of John Wayne talking about how he loved America before the national anthem. I need to look for that on YouTube I remember The Duke at sign off too. We could get 2 of the Chattanooga stations pretty well but the other one we had to go outside and turn the antenna just a little. So it was back and forth . Then we got UHF and could pick up Huntsville.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: BhamFred]
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03/24/17 12:43 AM
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I remember when we had to sit and look at the same old cave drawings every night. Do you remember seeing the first fire and wheel also.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Shaw]
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03/24/17 12:50 AM
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I remember when we had to sit and look at the same old cave drawings every night. Do you remember seeing the first fire and wheel also. He prolly started the first fire!
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/24/17 01:19 AM
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I remember when they did it with... This is the end of our broadcast day. TVs had to warm up too. LOL!
"I'm not near as critical about how big they are as I once was. Smiles are more important now! We will grow more deer." Jimmy G.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: poorcountrypreacher]
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03/24/17 01:35 AM
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"Oh, the stations up here they don't sign off with Dixie,
Well they did in Sweet Home Ala-bam".
Younger ones won't get that. I think signing off with Dixie might have been a radio thing. Anyone remember? I ain't as old as Troy, but pretty close. leroycnbucks Online happy Booner Registered: 11-12-2010 Posts: 12727 Loc: All in Alabama I'm 54 and I remember it. I always thought it was cool to get to stay up that late with my Daddy. I also remember when I was a kid WBAM would sign off at night playing Dixie. Are you ignoring me?
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/24/17 02:28 AM
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I know you old timers will. A buddy and I were talking about this yesterday. Do any young folks remember when tv went off at night? The stations quit broadcasting late at night and the tv had different colored stripes on the screen. Early in the mornings, fighter jets came across the screen and they played the National Anthem, then they started broadcasting again. The young guys at work didn't believe us. Yep
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/24/17 03:29 AM
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The sign off was easy.
I remember the first color TV we got. Dad was transferred to Leanvenworth Ks. after getting back from Nam. We got a new color TV the day before Superbowl I, all the neighbors came over to watch Len Dawson and Otis Taylor lose to Greenbay.
Walter Cronkite reading the list everynight with Mom saying prayers on his 2nd tour. That sure was a long list at times.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/24/17 03:36 AM
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Be kind please rewind. I remember renting movies at Hoods Drug Store in Scottsboro. I think you got charged an extra dollar if you didn't rewind.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
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03/24/17 03:41 AM
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Yep, but then again I've seen all of this in my life time:
-First VCR -First Video Game System -First CD -Cell Phones -Personal Computers -Cordless Phones -DVD's -Cable TV -Fish Finders My great grandmother died last year. She was 100. She remembered the first radio their family had and the first time a light bulb came on in their house. She could tell you about the Great Depression and before TVA backed up Guntersville. They used to go off sand mtn to Scottsboro on a horse and wagon. It was an all day trip. She had a sharp mind up till the last year she lived. I loved to listen to her tell stories.
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: ford150man]
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03/24/17 03:42 AM
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I remember them signing off at night with the National Anthem and the video of the American flag waving in slow motion. This.....remember it like yesterday
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/24/17 03:45 AM
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Yep I remember that well. We had two stations and sometimes three if the weather was fair
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/24/17 03:52 AM
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My great grandmother died last year. She was 100. She remembered the first radio their family had and the first time a light bulb came on in their house. She could tell you about the Great Depression and before TVA backed up Guntersville. They used to go off sand mtn to Scottsboro on a horse and wagon. It was an all day trip. She had a sharp mind up till the last year she lived. I loved to listen to her tell stories.
My great-grandmother was born in 1892 and lived to be 94. She lived out in Danville. I asked her once what she remembered as a little girl and she said that she remembered people talking about men flying in the air but it sounded far-fetched. She was talking about the Wright brothers and the first air flight. I wish I'd asked her more about what she remembered and tape recorded or videoed it. She saw the inventions of airplanes, expansion of electricity, radio and television, expansion of telephones, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, the Depression and everything else. Her husband died in 1959 so she was a widow for the last 24-25 years of her life. Tough as a nail and sweet as could be.
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Re: Do y'all remember when TV went off?
[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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03/24/17 03:57 AM
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How about WLS Chicago or WWL New Orleans on AM late at night for Rock and Roll. Larry Lujack was the DJ at night on WLS. He was kinda the Wolfman Jack of the mid-west.
Anyone else listen to those?
Now this goes way back , you youngsters born after about 1970 don't know late night AM.
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