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Growing up in Chilliwack..............1952
Kids right now, are brought into a world of amazing daily changes in technology...they accept it and they are part of it....when we were kids, changes came ...but not so fast....there was lots of time to absorb these amazing events and they were a big deal...a really big deal....can my grandkids know how wonderful the first television was.....It was fantastic......Radio just started to become part of some peoples lives after the first world war ....So it had only been public broadcasting since 1920 and steady improving until and through my school days. The intent listening when the news broadcasts were on during the second war after 1939.....button yer lip when those broadcasts were on and my dad was listening...so intent, the lines of concern frozen on his face....I knew when things were bad or good for us by watching his reaction.....the picture news was in the newspaper or a few days after the events the newsreels were shown at all the theatres.....attendance was usually a pretty full house.......at the Saturday matinee when the news was on, the kids would roar with approval when our troops and planes were on screen....boos and catcalls , kids standing , fists shaking would greet any pictures of the bad guys....it was great fun. Matinee kids were very vocal with their criticism of the movie, a love scene could be counted on for groans and moans, and boys blowing on their arms (try it).......... back to the radio.....kinda like TV , but the pictures were in your mind......Sunday was a big radio day....most of the shows were 1/2 hour.........early in the afternoon we could listen to Henry Aldrich, Our Miss Brooks, Amos and Andy, Innersangtom....the squeaking door..........oh, just lots of them ...some I cannot recall..........but as the night drew on the biggies came ..........The Whistler (I know many strange things for I walk by night) hey... that was scary!....Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd...Jack Benny......then the Red Skelton Show....what a night of entertainment....you did not need a good seat..just a comfortable seat....the floor with a pillow was great....lie back and listen ......images in your mind ......about eight o'clock...mum would make a snack....in the oven ....broil cheese on toast...salted..o ya......
In 1952 Ralph Maxwell bought a 19 1nch TV....ooww they were expensive...400 bucks at that time....I have to guess but 1.40 an hr. would be a Carpenters wage in those days....anyway Mr. Maxwell bought a TV......they lived on McNaught Road , just out of town......their son, Bill was my pal.....I remember Winter and watching that first TV ......East wind , snow , ride the Chilliwack bus there...stay overnight....school closed, windy ,cold , crunchy winter.
The shows were few and the black and white reception was so snowy........there were two channels, one from Vancouver and one from Bellingham..... they were both bad....but we thought they were great....We could watch wrestling and wrestling (Bill's dad loved wrestling).....Howdy Doody.......Eddy Arnold ....( Bills mom was nuts for Eddy Arnold) and Test Pattern.....and old westerns ....Roy Rogers and Hop Along Cassidy....What name huh.....hop a long...and that was serious, not a comedy......Soon there were TV antennas all across Chilliwack....my what a tangled looking mess...they were really quite ugly, these aluminum poles and racks, every house had one ..........a good aerial was needed to get reception ...the bigger the better......images were accompanied with ghosts ..an annoying distortion but we got used to it....just having a picture to look at was amazing....TV reception slowly got better..remotes were not invented...I remember viewing dad's butt most of the time as he was constantly adjusting the reception , we all protested with..."thats okay".."good enuff" .... The aerials stayed a long time, just part of the scenery ...In the late 60s and through the 70s most people went to the color TV as it came down in price... Cable and satellite saved us from those eye polluting aerials. Their must be a zillion miles of aluminum pipe put in to landfills.
Kids right now, are brought into a world of amazing daily changes in technology...they accept it and they are part of it....when we were kids, changes came ...but not so fast....there was lots of time to absorb these amazing events and they were a big deal...a really big deal....can my grandkids know how wonderful the first television was.....It was fantastic......Radio just started to become part of some peoples lives after the first world war ....So it had only been public broadcasting since 1920 and steady improving until and through my school days. The intent listening when the news broadcasts were on during the second war after 1939.....button yer lip when those broadcasts were on and my dad was listening...so intent, the lines of concern frozen on his face....I knew when things were bad or good for us by watching his reaction.....the picture news was in the newspaper or a few days after the events the newsreels were shown at all the theatres.....attendance was usually a pretty full house.......at the Saturday matinee when the news was on, the kids would roar with approval when our troops and planes were on screen....boos and catcalls , kids standing , fists shaking would greet any pictures of the bad guys....it was great fun. Matinee kids were very vocal with their criticism of the movie, a love scene could be counted on for groans and moans, and boys blowing on their arms (try it).......... back to the radio.....kinda like TV , but the pictures were in your mind......Sunday was a big radio day....most of the shows were 1/2 hour.........early in the afternoon we could listen to Henry Aldrich, Our Miss Brooks, Amos and Andy, Innersangtom....the squeaking door..........oh, just lots of them ...some I cannot recall..........but as the night drew on the biggies came ..........The Whistler (I know many strange things for I walk by night) hey... that was scary!....Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd...Jack Benny......then the Red Skelton Show....what a night of entertainment....you did not need a good seat..just a comfortable seat....the floor with a pillow was great....lie back and listen ......images in your mind ......about eight o'clock...mum would make a snack....in the oven ....broil cheese on toast...salted..o ya......
In 1952 Ralph Maxwell bought a 19 1nch TV....ooww they were expensive...400 bucks at that time....I have to guess but 1.40 an hr. would be a Carpenters wage in those days....anyway Mr. Maxwell bought a TV......they lived on McNaught Road , just out of town......their son, Bill was my pal.....I remember Winter and watching that first TV ......East wind , snow , ride the Chilliwack bus there...stay overnight....school closed, windy ,cold , crunchy winter.
The shows were few and the black and white reception was so snowy........there were two channels, one from Vancouver and one from Bellingham..... they were both bad....but we thought they were great....We could watch wrestling and wrestling (Bill's dad loved wrestling).....Howdy Doody.......Eddy Arnold ....( Bills mom was nuts for Eddy Arnold) and Test Pattern.....and old westerns ....Roy Rogers and Hop Along Cassidy....What name huh.....hop a long...and that was serious, not a comedy......Soon there were TV antennas all across Chilliwack....my what a tangled looking mess...they were really quite ugly, these aluminum poles and racks, every house had one ..........a good aerial was needed to get reception ...the bigger the better......images were accompanied with ghosts ..an annoying distortion but we got used to it....just having a picture to look at was amazing....TV reception slowly got better..remotes were not invented...I remember viewing dad's butt most of the time as he was constantly adjusting the reception , we all protested with..."thats okay".."good enuff" .... The aerials stayed a long time, just part of the scenery ...In the late 60s and through the 70s most people went to the color TV as it came down in price... Cable and satellite saved us from those eye polluting aerials. Their must be a zillion miles of aluminum pipe put in to landfills.
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