The first black and white TVs I saw were at the homes where I baby sat.
I would stay up and watch until about 1 am when God Save the Queen was played and the screens went to snow.
I could hardly believe that I got to watch TV and was paid as well. I did not think that television could get any better.
When I was married, had two children and we lived in some low rental units near the university, Kelvin and I had a black and white television.
That is where I got most of my news. Still indelible on my mind is the day that I watched the breaking news that J.F. Kennedy had been assassinated…I saw the afternmath on that black and white TV.
Technology has improved.
Now I have a beautiful coloured television and can watch specials on my computer screen as well, casting them to the bigger screen. I can stay up all night. Indeed, all day, all night and again all day if I want to binge watch a programme. I have more hand held controllers than I know what to do with, and they have buttons I am never going to learn to manage. This kind of technology would have been beyond anything I could have imagined as a teen-ager making $.35 an hour while babysitting and enjoying someone else’s black and white T.V., never even imaging that I might own one.
Arta
Your writings always make me smile! You share so many fond memories... Glad for reminders that life is so good~ Jane Milner
ReplyDeleteWell,Jane, my birthday is coming fast and I am not keeping up with my writing. Today I thought I could do 7 bullet posts and get caught up and I haven't done one. Now tomorrow, I will have to try for 8 to get back on schedule. Thanks for saying that you are enjoying them and that they are bringing back fond memories. And I, too, give a big resounding yes to having found so much of life to be good.
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