I remember those days too, in black & white.
We were the last house on the block to get color.
Just before Christmas 1975.
My dad had eight or nine black-and-white TV sets in the basement that people had given him. With that supply of spare parts and his military electronics training, he thought he’d never have to by another TV in his lifetime.
My mom forced him to buy a color set when us kids kept pestering her parents to come to their house to watch cartoons, the Thanksgiving Day parades, etc. in color.
Did not get cable until 1983 due to arcane political battles over who would get the franchise.