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Did you read TV Guide in the supermarket as a kid?
Posted on 9/29/24 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 9/29/24 at 10:26 pm
I got 3 channels and PBS so if I had any hope of catching a decent movie I better go to the store with my mom at least once a week.
My favorite was when there was a James Bond movie coming up in the next couple weeks.
Man that was the highlight of my week and come hell or high water I was going to have a tv dinner that night and watch that chopped up bitch loaded with commercials.
Kids today
y'all suck.
My favorite was when there was a James Bond movie coming up in the next couple weeks.
Man that was the highlight of my week and come hell or high water I was going to have a tv dinner that night and watch that chopped up bitch loaded with commercials.
Kids today
y'all suck.This post was edited on 9/29/24 at 10:29 pm
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Posted on 9/29/24 at 10:28 pm to CAD703X
We got a TV guide in every Sunday paper so I could make my plans at home.
Posted on 9/29/24 at 10:40 pm to CAD703X
I still have some newspaper supplement TV Guides that came with both the Shreveport Journal and the Times. Those things are now 50 years old or so. Similarly, I have hundreds of the national magazines, from the 70s/80s, which I always kept. Bought them each week. Even enjoyed picking up older issues, dating back to the 1950s/60s at flea-markets and antique shops.
First thing I'd do when I'd get a TV Guide was to immediately scan the local channel's movie listings for the weekday afternoons and the late shows. Always hoping for things like 'monster' movies, or Tarzan films. Not to mention comedies, usually starring the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, W.C. Fields, and such. Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto were also a plus. You just never knew what would turn up. It was an exciting high, getting that first look at the listings in a new TV Guide.
First thing I'd do when I'd get a TV Guide was to immediately scan the local channel's movie listings for the weekday afternoons and the late shows. Always hoping for things like 'monster' movies, or Tarzan films. Not to mention comedies, usually starring the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, W.C. Fields, and such. Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto were also a plus. You just never knew what would turn up. It was an exciting high, getting that first look at the listings in a new TV Guide.
Posted on 9/29/24 at 10:43 pm to CAD703X
Had a small TV Guide mag/book come to the house. Subscription i guess. We must have been pretty well of for luxeries like that.
Posted on 9/29/24 at 10:48 pm to CAD703X
We were classy, we had a subscription
Posted on 9/29/24 at 10:48 pm to CAD703X
Just the one that came in the Sunday paper. The actual TV Guide "magazine" never.
Posted on 9/29/24 at 10:48 pm to HooDooWitch
Asked my dad one time as a kid if we could get a subscription and he just laughed at me.
Posted on 9/29/24 at 10:53 pm to CAD703X
I was too busy stealing cigarettes
Posted on 9/29/24 at 11:21 pm to JimmyMcGoo
Always got my smokes out of machines. No id...no problem. All ya needed where some quarters and no adults around the machine.
Me and a buddy heard that if you turned the cigarette machine upside down and then stood it back up....all the smokes would fall out. Not only did the smokes come out....but all the quarters filled the front glass making it obvious what happened. I got banned from the state park for a year for that stunt.
Me and a buddy heard that if you turned the cigarette machine upside down and then stood it back up....all the smokes would fall out. Not only did the smokes come out....but all the quarters filled the front glass making it obvious what happened. I got banned from the state park for a year for that stunt.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 12:33 am to CAD703X
That brings back good memories I liked reading the TV guides. 70's and 80's were great years to grow up in. I also remember what a big deal it was when the Christmas catalogs from JC Penny and Sears came out.
This post was edited on 9/30/24 at 12:34 am
Posted on 9/30/24 at 12:35 am to HooDooWitch
quote:
Had a small TV Guide mag/book come to the house. Subscription i guess. We must have been pretty well of for luxeries like that.
We had one called “Cablecast” that came every week. The format was much better and it had all the local stuff with the actual correct channel numbers.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 12:35 am to OK Roughneck
I spent so much time picking out stuff in the sears Christmas book. I don't think I ever got a single damn thing from sears but I always studied the gift book hard lol
Posted on 9/30/24 at 1:04 am to CAD703X
Thinking of TV Guide, I immediately thought of Frank Constaza in Seinfeld.
On the topic of generic versions of TV guide, I think every regional paper included a local TV listing guide as a weekly special. It also published the local cable channel listings so I could see how crappy Callais Cable was as a cable provider when they only had 36 cable channels while other providers in the area like Time Warner, Renaissance or Helicon had a much better channel line up. I think the cable providers paid for these versions as an advertisement for their services. The death of this was when digital cable started rolling out with an EPG. Even before the advent of the EPG, these localized generic TV listings magazines were on life support as you had channels like the PreVue channel. Eventually, newspapers only published daily programming grids once papers killed off these generic versions of TV guide. Now you are lucky if they include any TV listings.
On the topic of generic versions of TV guide, I think every regional paper included a local TV listing guide as a weekly special. It also published the local cable channel listings so I could see how crappy Callais Cable was as a cable provider when they only had 36 cable channels while other providers in the area like Time Warner, Renaissance or Helicon had a much better channel line up. I think the cable providers paid for these versions as an advertisement for their services. The death of this was when digital cable started rolling out with an EPG. Even before the advent of the EPG, these localized generic TV listings magazines were on life support as you had channels like the PreVue channel. Eventually, newspapers only published daily programming grids once papers killed off these generic versions of TV guide. Now you are lucky if they include any TV listings.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 1:07 am to CAD703X
quote:
Asked my dad one time as a kid if we could get a subscription and he just laughed at me.
+1
Your dad was ahead of his time.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:01 am to HooDooWitch
We had a TV Guide subscription. I loved that thing and could draw the best TIppy the Turtle… and pirate.
This post was edited on 9/30/24 at 6:03 am
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:22 am to CAD703X
You forgot the one independent station that your rabbit ears would always have problems getting in clealry...unless....you held it just right and lifted a leg to a certain height.....then you could see Mid South Wrestling.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:25 am to JimmyMcGoo
.....and the choices of cigarettes. Every place had those machines.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:28 am to KiwiHead
I loved spending a week with my grandmother in the summer because she had TBS and WGN. Big deal back then..I think TBS is where I first started watching wrestling.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:30 am to CAD703X
The Monday night football game would have the rosters in the TV guide. Thought that was awesome
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:42 am to CAD703X
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