The Buckets by Greg Cravens for March 22, 2014

That’s how TVs used to be; like nice furniture.

Ya gotta build your own, now, or hang it on the wall and fill it with digital goldfish.

I remember my grandparents Curtis Mathis – a good 3’ wide wood cabinet, carved with scroll and lattice work. Great TV and great furniture.

Used to have an old Zenith console tv. Beautiful piece of furniture.

I remember sitting in front of a “big” Magnavox console with something like a 27" actual screen and watching the movie Fahrenheit 451 with the huge wall-screen TV in the house and thinking, someday I’ll have one of those!

Nuff Said…

How big is that screen?

Easy Frank!

On the up side, it no longer takes a forklift to move a TV.

How…old…ARE you!?

You got it!xxx

Sorrry Frank. No more nice furniture to put in the house. No more driving mom crazy by putting a glass of pop on the top. No more dusting. .but tell the kid to stop calling you names!

try finding mixing bowls that are glass. I got the strangest looks from store staff. What? why not metal? why not plastic? …. They obviously don’t bake or cook. .very short rant now done.

I still have one of those in my living room. Magnavox from the early 1980s. Still works but I rarely watch it so not in a big hurry to spend $$$$ to upgrade it.

I have switched to whisk. The wire whisks come in various sizes so can find one that suits your hand. There are a couple of speciality stores that have some wonderful things. But they are local.(Gourmet Warehouse)

It helps to remember the relative cost of that $690 TV in the 1950’s would cost > $6,0000 today. You had to make the TV look like it would last a lifetime to get anyone to finance it then, even though you knew darn well that it would need repair in 2-3 years.

My grandparents console died. They took out the works and put a smaller portable TV in the console so “no one will see the portable and steal it”. :-)

I want a “real” TV. I have a problem watching the the digital/HD TVs and see little squares moving instead of the picture and many faces look like the animated effect of dots for shading. It is not our TV or our service as this happens to me on all of these TVs, even those in the stores.