Old Fogeys

Hi green, thanks for responding. You must be about 54-55 yrs. old, right? I was in the 8th grade. I remember I was in the library when they came over the loudspeaker and announced it. It was such a shock! Yes, we had black and white TV until sometime in the '70s. Then dad broke down and bought a color TV. LOL I remember that jingle jump thingie. I was too old to play with it, but I remember it. Yes, I liked snakes also. I can remember watching roman candles, but never held one.

you were very close i'm 53. and the same with us. i didn't get a color tv until the 70's. living with black and white whenever we were in a store and saw the color tv on i was mesmerized. and wasn't it funny when the announcer would say this program is brought to you in living color. like you had to be told if you have a color tv and if you didn't what good was it? also did you experience the test they ran during rat patrol when tv was still black and white. on a commercial they used a chemical so that an object came thru in color. i was blown away by that. and i wondered why they didn't do it all the time.

A year old thread...hopefully someone (greenglitterturtle, possibly) will see this. I have a question. I'm trying to find out more information about the commercial that ran on B&W televisions that allowed you to see color. I'm to young to have seen it, but I'm interested in finding out more about it. I've searched the internet and this is about the only thing I can find that remotely points me in the right direction. Do you remember anything more about that, Turtle? Any info is greatly appreciated.

yes you are right oh what we thought we knew back then, I would give all I got to go back and redo, I still play those songs and we made cd for my grand daughter of all the songs that was aroung when her mother was growing up, the really intelligent one's like Purple People eater, Don't mess with my Ding A Ling, Along Came Jones, she said what stupid songs the was, and they think we like the Rap! I remember going to my grandmother's every Sunday for dinner and playing with my cousins that was there, now they are scattered all over and I never see them. I remember the fight when my father sent my mother to town to trade off the car for a 50 something and she came home with a new 57 Chevey, she fell in love with it. i remember getting in grandpa's garden all us kids and throwing the tomatoes at each other, boy did we get it for that. And grandma ringing the chickens necks and throwing them in the yard and they would flog around, we thought it was so funny. Clothes was hung out on the line. And well water, god to just have one drink today, not this bottled stuff. Oh to go back and be a kid again.

Oh, thank you, bd. You have brought back some beautiful memories for me. I remember all these things you mention. Bobby Rydell, Del Shannon, Frankie Avalon, Dion and the Belmonts, Paul Anka (Put Your Head On My Shoulder.....). Oh, to be able to go back and live those days again! And, to know what I know now. LOL Thank you so much for taking me back 50 yrs. to my happy childhood, which I thought anything but happy then. If only I would have known what the future held for me, I would have held onto that childhood as long as I could.