I remember my mother ironing in the kitchen and listening to her "soaps" on the radio. We got a television when I was about six and there were three stations which came in with a lot of snow. My dad would get up on the roof to adjust the antenna and yell down to my mom "HOW'S THAT NOW???" and my mom would stick her head out the window and yell "BETTER!!" or "THAT'S WORSE NOW!!" And then, there was the big wad of aluminum foil stuck on the end of the rabbit ears. The first show that I remember vividly was the Bishop Fulton Sheen show. I thought he was supposed to be the devil. He was very intense looking and would swirl his cape. I wasn't Catholic and had never seen anyone dressed like that.
Born with a TV already in the apartment. We were the first family in the building to have a TV, a nine inch Philco. Not so small when you think that today people watch TV on their phones. I remember well 'Uncle Miltie' Milton Berle. My first memory is my dad diapering me while he laughed at Berle & I suffered a scratch from the pin because of it!
@HEY BEATRICE...That is a Treasure Chest of old radio programs in handy alphabetical order! I'll really enjoy sampling many of them...THANK YOU! Hal
Keep in mind..one reason some may not remember certain shows....they were not shown all over the the US. I saw Bozo the clown while staying in Missuouri...show was not shown in my area of Texas.
No fair! Here I am overjoyed with $3.29....couldn't believe my eyes....my last fill up at the same station was $3.89.
It's hard to compare prices with other countries though... When I lived in Hungary gas was higher than in the US at the same time and wages in Hungary were a lot less too but I could buy a pack of the same cigarettes I smoked in the us for about $1.00 a pack...in th US they were about $4 a pack for my menthol Virginia Slim extra light 120's....that was always a mouthful to say.
Cigarettes here are £9 per pack --- $11.44 USD... Our minimum wage £7.83 - just under $10 USD.... In june 2018...this report.... London is officially one of the most expensive cities in the world for to live in, according to a global study. It now appears in the top 20 most expensive cities in Mercer's annual cost of living city survey.
O My do I ever remember , how about The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet Let's Pretend Bud & Abbot, I Love A Mysterey, ?
How do people afford it? @Holly Saunders Think minimum wage in CA is $10 and although our gas is probably the highest it's still not as high as yours...don't know how much cigarettes are now but I doubt they're more than $10.
Those on minimum wage simply don't afford it CC without help from benefits etc.. private rents in London are scandalously hight, even for a little 2 bed flat in a rundown area the rent can be anything around the £1500 or more upwards, and for anything decent , then 2k and upwards to skies the limit... ... it pays many people not to work at all and let benefits take care of their rent, it's disgraceful really how the government has allowed this to happen .