Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for May 04, 2009

Elementary, my dear boy.

…and t.v. channels were 2-4-5-7-9-20-36 and 44. And no such thing as a remote control.

hah, we only had channels 3, 6, 7, and 12. and cartoons only came on Saturday mornings.

And we lived for a cartoon on The Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday night!

We had 8 and 13. Or the great outdoors.

We had channels 16, 22, and 28. Plus Disney on Wednesday night.

We only had channel 6 and at the mercy of local programming, alas, on the bright side, friday we had “creature features” and saturday cartoons! (Bugs Bunny)

30-38 years ago, cable-less Calgarians got only channels 2 (CFAC–local), 4 (CFCN/CTV) and 9 (CBC). On cable, some transmogrifications (2->7, 4->5, 9->6) and the following additions: French-CBC 11 and Spokane-based 3 (NBC), 8 (ABC), 12 (CBS) and 13 (PBS). Almost as mfboyd stated about cartoons (mostly Saturday mornings–although 2/7 did have Herc for half-hour 7:00-7:30 am and Marvel Superheroes 7:30-8:00 am).

I guess Skyler is not used to the concept of “chicken-scratch” notes.

We had 3, 6, 10, 12, sometimes 27, and sometimes 33. Once in a blue moon we even had 15!

Great outdoors (especially in AB) is an excellent alternative to moron-box: we actually made Saturday trips to Banff, Drumheller and Gull Lake, full-weekend trip to Waterton–and somewhat longer (and much less-nice) summer roadtrip to Yellowstone (in 1975–when it really seemed funny that we could speed along at 70 down to border, and then had to “hold horses” to 55, especially in MT’s vast vehicle-sparse expanses).

We got 1 channel and only if someone went out and adjusted the antenna

“The Wonderful World of Disney”, good times, good times!

The kids today miss so much! Remember getting caught passing a note? You had to read it out loud to the class then, at least in my class you did! Talk about embarrassing!

You guys all sound as old as I am. I’m quite familiar with the time there was no remote control and we passed notes. Now I even have a remote control with my air conditioner

Oh, I don’t know. Growing up, my dad had a remote. He would say “Donna, change the channel.”

In my house we had a radio. Hy ho Silver, the Shadow Knows, Etc. We listened while doing dishes, etc.

We passed notes by rolling them up and putting them in ink pen barrels.

Silverpearl - My folks would tell us kids about the family sitting around and watching “The Radio”. Said we were too spoiled with modern technology back in the 50’s.

…into the wind and rain….