atomic tv.... I love everything about this picture

[IcyPeas]

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[cyclonefence]

1. Chintz is eternal

[LakeArenal]

2. And wall paper is back!!

[rurallib]

3. back in those days I was the remote:

"Change the channel"
"Turn the sound up"
"Turn the sound down"
"See what's on channel 2"
"Bring me the TV guide"

[IcyPeas]

6. and if someone turned on another appliance you'd get static on the tv

[rurallib]

8. one of the neat features of those old TVs was that they could

pick up a tornado in the area. We used that feature a lot in Iowa in the spring

[The Unmitigated Gall]

4. Has a sinister look to it. Love it though!

[House of Roberts]

5. I wonder how many rads she absorbed at that distance.

[modrepub]

7. Remember...

Holding onto the antenna to see if the TV reception got better?

Buying all kinds of gadgets to improve your signal (which most of them didn't)?

Having to yell out the window for your Dad to stop rotating the roof antenna when the signal was best?

You might get a couple of extra stations (very faintly) if the the weather/wind was right. I think this usually happened at night (or was that the radio?).

Cranking through the UHF dial for all of the nonaffiliated TV stations?

Often times weird local TV programs, especially on the UHF stations?

The channel opening or closing with the Star Spangled Banner when they signed off at night or signed on in the morning?

That color signal panel coming on at station sign off then fading into static/noise as the station went off until morning?

[rurallib]

9. We spent a lot of our summer vacations staying up

ridiculously late to get the skip signals on the TV.

Lived in Iowa but got signals from Louisville, Seattle and New York

[LudwigPastorius]

10. Looks like it could be one of the Radiation King models.