The Times They Be A'Changin (Read 735 times)

Well, your thread title has much to say about that, and answering your question.

Thimes have changed. Families are scattered from coast to coast & from Canada to mexico Border. Many are overseas also. People now-a-days just don't stay on the family farm.

Many more people spend their evenings on the computer instead of watching TV. I only watch very interesting programs, favorite movie, or a Law & Order as long as it is not a repeat.
With TV you just sit there and get hit with informatiom. I enjoy the computer more as you interact with it and friends - like I'm doing right now.

Thats my story and I'm sticking too it.

Yep, in 1953 there was no cable or satellite TV, no DVDs, DVRs, Internet, etc.

Television had some great programs, and they had some junk.

There were theaters and restaurants that would close on nights a particular program was on. They knew no one would patronize their businesses.

Milton Berle, I Love Lucy, Sid Caesar, and others had that effect.

TV in the Fifties did some quality programming.

I remember watching Marty, Requiem for a Heavyweight, and other presentations on TV before they were made in to movies.

We used to go home early from the base one afternoon a week so we could watch Huckleberry Hound or the Flintstones.

Watch we did.

There were live boxing matches at least two nights a week.

Of course you also had Roller Derby and Wrestling.

That was before the NFL went on TV.

Dizzy Dean announced Major League Baseball on Saturday, with Bud Blatner.

The national news was 15 minutes, and Douglas Edwards or Eric Severeid would just read the news and that was it.

There were programs like Omnibus, You Are There, and others that dealt with history and science.

Victory at Sea was a 26 week, half-hour show, that chronicled the War in the Pacific, for the most part. It used Navy film and has a musical score by Richard Rogers.

Well, I could go on for some time. But won't.

The TV world we had in the Sixties was as different from what is now on as night is from day.

I think a lot of people just don't like what is on and the cable/satellite channels end up winning. Not on a single channel, usually, but overall.

I watch the local news, sports, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. I do watch the Military Channel and TCM.
Not much else interests me.

So, put a Doris Day, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne or other oldie, in the DVD player, sit back and really enjoy great entertainment.

Jim Too


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