Early 1950s Television Set
Image by gbaku
We got the set in late 1952 or early 1953; the photo is probably from the same time and was taken in Eugene, Oregon (USA). Until a local station started broadcasting, we only got a very fuzzy picture from a UHF station in Portland. The cable going off to the right went to a UHF antenna on top of a 40-foot mast on the roof; later in 1953, there was another cable going through the wall on the right connected to a VHF antenna lower on the mast to pick up signals from a new TV station in Eugene.
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Later view of the same set:
antennas:
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Fifties and Sixties, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
That could be me in the photo! I tell people that my father invented the remote control in 1951. "Son, go over and change it to channel 6!"
I used your shot for a humor piece on CycleDog.
cycledog.blogspot.com/2009/05/have-you-ever.html
If you have any objections, I’ll cheerfully remove it.
Ed
I’m sure my dad would have had me change the channels, but when this shot was taken, there was only one channel that we could receive! This was our first TV set; we had just moved from a small town where there was no chance of TV reception, but we had seen TV during visits to relatives in San Francisco and I was a huge fan of "Time for Beany" back in the days when it was a puppet show and not animated. Glad you could use the photo and thanks for letting me know.
My best friend grew up in Minnesota where they received two – count ‘em – two stations IF the weather cooperated. By contrast, growing up in Pittsburgh, we had six, though Stubenville and Johnstown could be iffy.
Now, we have about 150 cable stations….and I still can’t find anything I want to watch. It’s incentive to read and write more.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called . TV . room ., and we’d love to have this added to the group!
This was used here:
consumerist.com/5321540/televisions-now-dominant-life-for…
Ajmat
Cool!
I found this since it is used in a blog post in the blog of the Norwegian Broadcast Corporation (NRK):
nrkbeta.no/2010/02/04/blindtest/?utm_source=feedburner&am…
Thanks for letting me know about the NRK blog; I was wondering why there was another upsurge in the views of that particular photo. I’ve been enjoying looking through your photos, particularly those of Bergen since one of my favorite flickr sites is that of the Bergen Public Library (especially the photos of Edvard Grieg and his house).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergen_public_library/