JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for December 09, 2017

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    sueb1863  almost 7 years ago

    Yep, these days all TVs look alike. They’re all just black plastic rectangles. I kind of miss the days when they looked different and some of them were in wooden cabinets and fashioned like pieces of furniture.

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    Dani Rice  almost 7 years ago

    My parents’ first TV – circa 1950 – was a Magnavox. Solid mahogany, with doors that hid the screen when the thing was turned off. The doors had red fabric behind a brass screen – very attractive. I still have the matching radio/stereo in our living room. Still works.

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    sml7291 Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    My brother has a huge flat screen TV and only gets local on-air digital signals via, you guessed it, a rabbit ears antenna setup inside the house.

    …and they even have the same old problems and solutions. He had to stand there holding one antenna end to get a clean signal until I suggested tin foil… it worked.

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    Pedmar Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    I WISH we coulda used rabbit ears. Our small town was far from the TV stations so we had to use a roof antenna with an electric rotor.

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