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merle van osdol Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 809 Credit: 1,980,117 RAC: 0 |
I got that one. What was the commercial for? White undershirts? :-) Says we can't get it (youtube) here! merle - vote yes for freedom of speech |
Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26 |
When I was young, TV was something that was lacking. We had only one black and white TV and with a younger brother and sister, I was outvoted by them and overridden by my parents. I didn't see Star Trek until it was in it's second or third round of reruns and I lived by myself. Most of my time was spent reading or working with electronic projects/ideas. One special thing from my childhood was Wallace and Ladmo. You wouldn't know anything about it if you didn't live in the Phoenix Arizona area, but most of the population in Arizona from that time knew about it and watched it. The show targeted children and adults with the ability to outrank the ratings of the major networks. I think many people missed something great because the show never went national. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36257 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Mr. Ed and Francis the talking mule. Cheers. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
I got that one. What was the commercial for? White undershirts? :-) K-rauta is a leading retailer of hardware and furnishing products and related services. And white undershirts are needed when building houses:) And sauna and vodka. And knifes... Hyvää päivää:) |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
Mr. Ed and Francis the talking mule. I have to be very careful in commenting on that show. My wife's middle name is Frances. |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
50 years ago the fireplace was always considered the focal point in a room, and furniture was arranged to face it. But you couldn't move a fireplace! Modern flats and houses these days tend not to have fireplaces any more, so the TV has become the focal point, which is easier to move. My dad did!!! We tore down the fireplace from the Southeast corner and built a new one on the East wall during our 1996 remodel. To me, that's moving a fireplace. ;-) :-) TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30906 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Sometimes the chimney breast that the fireplace is in, is classed as a structural wall, so all you can do is to block it off with an air brick left in for ventilation. A lot of people then put a wall mounted electric fire there. Sort of rather defeats the object of blocking it off in the first place really, but we also did it! Well, since in a lot of places wood fires are illegal due to pollution something gives .... |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Why not? |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Acid!? They put acid on music? Nawwwww...... next your gonna say some of them people were taking acid while they played their songs. How do they do that with out burning their lips? Julie, some people in here grew up on Acid Rock. Not me of course, but I don't think others will mind. Some might even get all Déjà vu on us. Have at it Pal! (Still it is not my thread eh?) |
wingdi Send message Joined: 28 Apr 14 Posts: 451 Credit: 4,541 RAC: 0 |
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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wingdi Send message Joined: 28 Apr 14 Posts: 451 Credit: 4,541 RAC: 0 |
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
LSM and I like it ok. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Acid is the name of the music, like Goa and Trance, Seppe liked Ambient very much. General name would be Techno music I think. Acid? I Think I like bases more:) |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
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Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I watched the funeral of King George VI and the Coronation in 1953 on a neighbours b/w set. We got our first tv in 1956, a 19" b/w 405 line one. 625 line colour came in 1967. And yes I prefer the 4:3 aspect ratio sets to the 16:9 ones of today, but to be fair they are more true to life as you have better peripheral vision left to right than you have up and down. My new 40" flat-screen is so slim you can hang it on the wall like a picture, that is the only advantage that I can see, a 40" CRT set would need scaffolding!! That's true; I hadn't thought about that... But I'm sentimental for the old console tv style. My mom still has her console stereo, too. :~) The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Back then we had stereograms that were the size of a small sideboard. These days you'd get better sound out of a Walkman! Well, these might help: The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Cool! Genuine or modern retro? I don't know how or where to classify them, but they look like something that came out of H.G. Wells' steamer trunk. :~) The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
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