[Monkey Face]

We wuz poor, too. Never even saw a TV set (I don’t mean “watched TV”,) until I was almost eight years old. When we finally got a TV, I was married before I ever watched a color TV set. What a luxury!

[higgmeister]

We moved to a farm in 1960.   The TV mysteriously stopped working soon after.   I distinctly remember Dad opening the back of the TV set and fiddling around inside.   We moved to Huntsville, Alabama at the end of 1965 and the TV started working again but our viewing times were highly regulated even then.

It wasn't until after Dad passed away in 1979 that I learned from my older siblings that he had pulled out all of the vacuum tubes to make sure the TV wouldn't work for five years.