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In general people who grew up in homes where TVs looked like this are far more able to do things like change oil, use power tools, etc. then people who have never seen one.
Progress isn't always positive.
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I was the remote
We had an old black and white TV that had a dial to change the channel. This was older than me. We had 5 channels that always came in and 3 that worked okay if the weather was right.
Pushbuttons AND a VCR? That was an upper middle class livingroom.
Ours was the deluxe kind with a built in record turntable that played 33s and had adapters for 45s and 78s, along with an am/fm radio. It took up one entire wall in the living room and served as a buffet with the top closed. All tubes and it weighed several hundred pounds. I think my parents got it as a wedding present in the 60s.
We were never rich enough to have a bougie set like that. Ours was a regular TV on a stand with rabbit ears. We go our stations out of Cleveland 3, 5 and 8 for ABC, NBC and CBS. Also on UHF we got 17, 43 and 48... Oh and PBS in there somewhere can't remember the channel.
The good old days.