Who on here is old enough to remember this? Television signing off for the night.

Oh wow! I can't imagine that. It is nice to see someone who that is older and wiser on GLP



Now that you bring it up, I remember that too. Saturday mornings were something to look forward too as a child.

i was there

hate the new tv's

miss the old ones

gimme back my tubes

I remember watching the 1960 Eurovision song contest.

Something from a different era.



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Maybe TV should go off?...give the propaganda a break...MAGA

Now there is a thought! It is funny you posted that because I was thinking the same thing.

With the advancements in technology it has not helped us morally. We are in a decline as nation spiritually and morally. Kids today have lost their identity.

I happened to catch a few minutes of American Idol last week and it was sad. They had a cross-dresser on there that came out and talked to the judges without his costume or alt idenity. You could see the pain all over his face.

Praying for this nation and the world.

and when the Anthem is finished,
the indian chief test pattern.

My older brother bought the family a TV in around 1952......12" screen, on a little table......

WOW what a wonder.....what a marvel!! LOL.

3 channels, B&W, of course, and we loved it.

when I could,I'd stay up late on Sat. nights for a late movie.....then the signoff!!!! then that awful static...

in my city, they would show the same movie the next morning!!!

and having to get up to change the channel? hey, it was all we knew!!! now NO ONE would wanna do it.

thanks for remote control!!!

used to be a few 15 min. musical shows; Nat King Cole had one, Roberta Quinlan, sang and played piano.

ah, those were the days, but as for that old 'technology', you can have it...

still brings back nice memories,though!!!

I remember it. As a little kid in rural Arkansas, we only got 3 local channels by antenna. They signed off, and the screen was an American flag till they came back on.

It was like that till the mid 90s, I believe. Matters not, these were farming communities, and no one was up all night, as they had to rise at zero dark thirty to start the days work.

I Do !!!
As a kid I would wait until I heard my parents snoring in the bed room next to my brothers and my room. Then I would sneak downstairs and turn on the Black and White TV and watch the late night movie. (lol) Then that would come on and end broad casting for the day. And I would go upstairs and back to bed.

I can remember as a kid back in the 50s that if we stayed up to watch a movie and the station went off the air, we stood up while the anthem played. Back then, we figured that if we didn't, somehow we would get in trouble if we didn't.

In the UK most people (of a certain age) clearly remember the BBC testcard shown at day end. I remember as a child, elderly relatives who would always verbally reply to news/weather presenters saying "good night/morning/evening" etc. As a child I always wondered if they actually thought the tv could hear them! I have a vague memory that we would always stand for the national anthem (on tv) but I'm not actually sure if that really happened!?! (I wrote this before seeing post from tibetbill above)

It was a typical gag to bugger up the aerial so that the reception went out and thunderstorms could cause it as well.

The old tvs had adjustments on them to control the scrolling of the horizontal and vertical sync adjustment. So an older kid, say nine or ten would torment their siblings by buggering up the horizontal or vertical or both adjustment. And then watching the program was impossible without adjusting it. Well they would give up and then the older one would watch whatever they wanted to watch.

I remember staying up late to fap to the 'Benny Hill' chase scene before the flag came on...the it was 'FUCK YOU GHOSTS' and I turned that shit off.

"It's 11 o'clock, Do you know where your children are?"

Yes, I remember that fondly..

Maybe that's why this country is headed into the shitter...

Yes and it made us what we are today. Here it is with the subliminal messages we were fed.
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Most homes only had one tv. But as prices fell and people got rid of black and white sets, then kids might get a handmedown from aunts and uncles. So while they were supposed to be asleep, they could hear the tv on downstairs blaring. Then they would turn on their tv but turn the volume down. So they could watch only what was on downstairs since they had to catch the sounds from below.

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The early tv sets available to families at the end of the fifties were not enclosed in wood cabinets and looked very scifi. Then in the midsixties you might get some cast of black and white set like that.

A buddy's family had a tv that went on the fritz and since it was old, his dad removed the set, and inserted an aquarium into the wood cabinet instead.

LOL, me too, in the winter would have to use channel lock pliers to break it free!

Even as late as the end of the sixties, boys would occassionally get an am crystal radio kit, put it together, and that was their radio. That had happened since the thirties. If you were lucky someone would give you an old dynamo powered radio that had shortwave bands and you could get music and programming from all over based upon the weather and time of day.

LOL! I remember that. As the TV got older vertical hold would be the first to go. I got my mom and dad's hand me down in my room and that would drive me crazy.

Those were the days when good people went to bed and others went out and created mayhem.
It was a kinder, cleaner world back then.
After they introduced all night television, the programming overwhelmed the idiots.

I love looking at all these old videos. One thing they had in common was their patriotic theme.

Parents from the Silent Generation called them "contraptions" and when the picture was buggered up, even when it needed a simple aerial adjustment or vertical/horizontal sync adjustment, they would bang on the side with their fist!

When cable first came out, very few people had it and so whatever kid's parents had it, would get a call from a buddy who wanted to spend the night and watch all the channels. And that might be 12. Anyway when the first scrambled tv channels came on, the picture would suddenly come through but the color was messed up, then proceed to be flipping vertically and horrizontally.

You'd catch adolescent boys aged 11 trying to see some boobs.

Yes and describing the the Vietnam War being described in detail every evening

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I agree it is sad what has happened and there is only one thing to blame the FEMINIST MOVEMENT!

'' Liberty and a living planet will only be won when masculinity, its religion, its economics, its psychology and its sex is resisted and finally defeated ''

How could we let the bitches control the show! we failed