As a toddler, I remember being fascinated by the small crowds of people standing outside the windows of stores that sold TV sets. A lot of them couldn't afford sets of their own, so they would watch the sets in the display windows; some stores had little speakers on the outside wall so they could hear the shows. The first TV set my family owned was a sort of combo unit with the B&W TV set, a phonograph, and a radio (with all those great frequency bands) all in a rather large and heavy cabinet. The rabbit ears sat on a little platform attached to the back of the cabinet. One thing I remember distinctly was the large amount of heat given off by the unit and, looking through the ventilation holes in the back, the eerie red glow of the vacuum tubes...
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