I was born in the late 60s, but I do have an interesting 50s story. It's a bit of an "urban legend" in my family. My grandfather was a pattern maker, and a very good one at that. My dad and my uncle say that he was the guy who made the pattern for that funky grill on the Edsel. Note - he didn't design it, he just made the pattern for it! At least that is the "rumor" because I have no way of verifying it. It's a cool story though.
My Grandmother use to watch Lawrence Welk every Sat. night back then. Perry Mason was a favorite for my Dad. I remember in the 50's watching Science Fiction Theater, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Amos and Andy, & Howdy Doody just to name a few.
Ahh, technically the Flintstones came out with the first remote control back in the stone age by way of a little bird that flew out of a box and changed the channel! Haha! Fred - "isn't it great?! A guy doesn't even have to get out of his chair anymore! What'll they think of next?!" Wilma - "Something to get a guy OUT of his chair....! I hope!"
Actually, NO, "rabbit ears" advantage was that they allowed TV reception in many areas WITHOUT an outdoor TV antenna which had been necessary up until then. If you were able to have an outdoor antenna, especially with a rotor to aim the directional antenna toward the station you were trying to receive, you still got a better picture, and were able to receive stations from farther away, than with "rabbit ears." Even with "rabbit ears," you had to turn them to face the proper direction to get the best signal. I an old. I grew up with "rabbit ears," so I know from experience. I later became an electrical engineer, so I understand it from a technical viewpoint too.
I grew up north of Chicago where an outdoor antenna really was needed to get good reception. My dad tried to make do with rabbit ears, but they just didn't cut it, so we muddled through with some snow on the screen (most people under 60 don't even know what that is). When we visited my grandparents who still lived in Chicago, we always got clear reception on their TV with rabbit ears. My sister and I were always envious of the good reception, but we could never get Dad to spring for an outdoor antenna.
My first color tele😅was a Zenith and it came with Space Command. Boy did that bring back memories. My dad saw it and had to get the same thing for himself.
So glad and blessed I was to've been born in the 50s. I may be close to the end now, but no matter, I have lived through the best decades of this once amazing and hopeful and proud country. Before the dark times of now. and the 80s shine like no other decade. you just had to be there.......
A friend's father bought a new Edsel and I was lucky enough to get to ride in it when he took us to a Boy Scout meeting. I remember being pretty impressed with the solid feeling and spacious interior. I wasn't old enough to get an impression of the styling, but I remember the unusual horse collar grille. I could say, with a straight face, I miss it -- sort of.
0:43 But the remote control left all those kids with nothing to do. LOL Those of you who grew up in the 50s know what I am talking about. 3:11 The rabbit ears gave all those kids who no longer had to change channels something new to do, adjust the rabbit ears, and in some cases hold on to them and assume all kinds of uncomfortable poses to improve reception.
4:31 I wonder how many of you know that Chester was given the limp because the producers did not want to have two good looking rugged he-men on the show. 5:53 The original opening of "As the World Turns" had a globe of the Earth spinning backwards (clockwise). LOL
I think this guy's just making it up as he goes along the transistor radio came out in 57 the 9 volt battery came out in 56 the Ford Edsel came out in 58 an ran Three years until 60 ,
No the Edsel came out in September 4, 1957 as a 1958 MY. The first transistor radio came out in 1954. In July 1954 the Texas Instruments and Industrial Development Engineering Associates (I.D.E.A.) companies embarked on a six month project to produce a pocket-sized radio for the Christmas market. The result was the Regency TR-1, the world's first pocket transistor radio. The Regency Division of I.D.E.A announced the TR-1 on October 18, 1954, and put it on sale in November 1954.
