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Posted on 2/3/25 at 6:09 pm to AUstar
Ours was probably 50-60 feet.
Channel master rotar.
No cable in our area at the time.
It was fun to pull stations early AM/Late PM.
VCR and video disc players were important to us.
Channel master rotar.
No cable in our area at the time.
It was fun to pull stations early AM/Late PM.
VCR and video disc players were important to us.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 6:11 pm to Tempratt
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video disc players
Another oft-forgotten tech relic of the time.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 6:36 pm to AUstar
I remember having to hold the antenna to keep the picture clear. My body basically was the antenna. I guess I was around 5 and got to see Madonna rolling around in a wedding dress live at an award show...the look on my dad's face was priceless.
I also remember the warmth and smell of electricity rising up out of the t.v.
I also remember the warmth and smell of electricity rising up out of the t.v.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 7:00 pm to AUstar
I did. I lived in Avoyelles Parish. We could get KALB out of Alexandria really clearly. 2, 9 and 33 out of Baton Rouge was fuzzy most of the time. KLFY channel 10 out of Lafayette came in clearer early in the morning. I used to watch " Passe Partout" (pahs pah two) which was an exclusively Cajun french speaking program on 10. It sucked when you could barely get a cartoon on a Baton Rouge station on Saturday morning. Sometimes a slight turn of the TV antenna outside would make it clearer. A friends dad worked for Zenith and they had a wired remote control that would mechanically turn the stations on the TV so you didn't have to get up and do it yourself.
This post was edited on 2/3/25 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 2/3/25 at 7:27 pm to AUstar
Dad and one of his friends showed up at my house as I was walking out the door. They asked where I was going and I said I needed to adjust my TV antenna. My house was a 2 story house.
Dad offered to get the ladder and I told him I didn't need it. I pulled myself up the antenna pole about 25 feet just using my hands in about 10 seconds , adjusted the antenna with one hand and then came back down the same way.
I walked in the house and checked the TV walked back outside and did the same thing just using my hands to get myself up the antenna pole and back down.
I asked them why the funny looks they said they couldn't believe I could do that once let alone twice going up and down the antenna pole like that.
Dad offered to get the ladder and I told him I didn't need it. I pulled myself up the antenna pole about 25 feet just using my hands in about 10 seconds , adjusted the antenna with one hand and then came back down the same way.
I walked in the house and checked the TV walked back outside and did the same thing just using my hands to get myself up the antenna pole and back down.
I asked them why the funny looks they said they couldn't believe I could do that once let alone twice going up and down the antenna pole like that.
This post was edited on 2/3/25 at 7:28 pm
Posted on 2/3/25 at 7:31 pm to AUstar
Grandparents in Natchez would wear my arse out if I turned the dial too quick.
Posted on 2/3/25 at 7:37 pm to Tarps99
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Here was Callais Cable’s lineup from the early 1970’s from what I remembered seeing in a South Lafourche High School Yearbook.
2-WBRZ
3-KATC
4-WWL
5-Local CCTV/Shared
6-WDSU
7-???-- If you were in south cental la. that was probably KPLC out of Lake charles with NBC
8-WVUE
9-WAFB
10-KLFY
11-KHMA (short lived)
12-WYES
13-???
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