As kids growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, our new best friend became the family television.
Like todayâs youths with cellphones and computer tablets, weâd spend hours glued to this device. When our family first got a television in 1950, it had a small screen, it was broadcast in black and white and it had no remote control, as we received only one channel.
Our TV was connected to an aluminum antenna on our roof. Other folks had an indoor antenna made of two thin tubes, called rabbit ears, that sat on the TV and could be adjusted for better reception.