A few days before the landing, dad snuck off to Sears and charged a big color t.v. especially for the event. Mom was furious because they really couldn’t afford it. We were all glued to the new set, but years later I realized there really wasn’t much “color” to see...lol. Mom and dad divorced later that year...sigh. I was 14 that summer.
“A few days before the landing, dad snuck off to Sears and charged a big color t.v. especially for the event. Mom was furious because they really couldn’t afford it. We were all glued to the new set, but years later I realized there really wasn’t much “color” to see...lol.”
awesome story. i think my dad bought our first color TV to watch a big NFL playoff series ... he and my younger brother just went down to the local TV store one Saturday and brought one back ... it was a VERY big deal for us ... those things were expensive and not everybody had them yet ...
and he had one practically that old and crapped out just a couple of years before he died, but i insisted he buy an HD flatscreen TV and HD cable, so he got to watch NFL football on a good screen the last two years of his life (even though he objected that the old one still worked) ...