When I was growing up (50’s and 60’s) we had three stations and no such thing as cable. All that was on were soaps and game shows. Then about 1959 the b&w tv caught fire in the Friday Night Fights (on the tv, not the parents) and we didn’t get another one for four years or more. But we had a field across the street. Wars were fought, distant lands explored and my younger brother ignored, if possible. A railroad tie bridge over the creek was the center of all the action and radio relay towers were gawked at through a telescope when men in climbing belts came to service them 250 ft. In the air. And Calvin’s school starts on Labor Day weekend like most North eastern schools and ends the last week of June. I don’t get where people say we teachers get three months off in the summer. July, August…one, two..
When I was growing up (50’s and 60’s) we had three stations and no such thing as cable. All that was on were soaps and game shows. Then about 1959 the b&w tv caught fire in the Friday Night Fights (on the tv, not the parents) and we didn’t get another one for four years or more. But we had a field across the street. Wars were fought, distant lands explored and my younger brother ignored, if possible. A railroad tie bridge over the creek was the center of all the action and radio relay towers were gawked at through a telescope when men in climbing belts came to service them 250 ft. In the air. And Calvin’s school starts on Labor Day weekend like most North eastern schools and ends the last week of June. I don’t get where people say we teachers get three months off in the summer. July, August…one, two..