You Know You Are Old When

[MoKelly]

How about the old Kukla, Fran and Ollie puppet show?

Kukla, Fran and Ollie - Wikipedia

I remember that show!

By the way, your link didn’t work for me.

 

[Dennis Mohn]

Yes - The Adventures of William Tell.

I sort of remember that show but it didn’t last too long if I remember correctly.

I was pretty young, I don't remember either

 

[Alan46]

I just remembered about the Andy Devine show, with a frog who Andy would ask him to Plunk his magic twanger! Anyone remember that, or am I just imagining it?

 

[drssg]

I just remembered about the Andy Devine show, with a frog who Andy would ask to Pluck his magic twanger! Anyone remember that, or am I just imagining it?

I think that's a partially repressed childhood memory from when your weird uncle was babysitting.

 

[Alan46]

I think that's a partially repressed childhood memory from when your weird uncle was babysitting.

Maybe that’s why my brain is like it is!
Thanks for helping out with my therapy! I found it. It was called Andy’s Gang from 1955.

 

[JethroB]

If it wasn’t on NBC or CBS we weren’t aware of many shows. PBS only on a clear night. My dad had a pipe wrench permanently attached to the TV antenna pole. Boy would he bark at us through the window.

 

[BravoXray]

I remember that show!

By the way, your link didn’t work for me.

I just tried it and it works for me.

Just Google it.

 

[Oaktree]

If it wasn’t on NBC or CBS we weren’t aware of many shows. PBS only on a clear night. My dad had a pipe wrench permanently attached to the TV antenna pole. Boy would he bark at us through the window.

We could only get 2 channels, both were ABC, so anything not on that network we probably didn't see. Well, there was a CBS station, even if you turned the antenna it didn't come in very well.

As far as kiddie shows, the only one that stands out was Uncle Gus on Ch. 9 from Manchester, N.H. It was very amateurish, as was most of their local programming. Don't recall the other station having any sort of children's programming.

 

[D&D]

When the kids come over and install safety grab bars in the house and shop, then tell you to quit turning off your medical alert tag

 

[Alan46]

I remember that show!

By the way, your link didn’t work for me.

Sorry it wasn’t a link, it was a screenshot!

 

[scootr]

You know you are old if you remember transistor radios and TV broadcast went off the air at 10 pm leaving a test pattern on the screen.

 

[MoKelly]

You know you are old if you remember transistor radios and TV broadcast went off the air at 10 pm leaving a test pattern on the screen.

I do remember transistor radios. I still use one when I can’t get phone reception —- which is most places at the farm.

 

[sixdogs]

I just remembered about the Andy Devine show, with a frog who Andy would ask him to Plunk his magic twanger! Anyone remember that, or am I just imagining it?

I partially remember the Andy Devine show. He was better as a jovial character in a western movie.

 

[sixdogs]

Yes - The Adventures of William Tell.

I sort of remember that show but it didn’t last too long if I remember correctly.

It was pretty lame. Hard to fool even little kids with it.

 

[MoKelly]

It was pretty lame. Hard to fool even little kids with it.

Agreed. It only lasted 9 months - from 9/15/58 to 6/15/59. So, not many were fooled.

 

[Pixguy]

I do remember transistor radios. I still use one when I can’t get phone reception —- which is most places at the farm.

Transistor radio was good for AM radio to find talk radio especially Paul Harvey and the Red Sox games

 

[Mendonsy]

And I'm sure many of us remember when AM radio was the only thing around.

 

[sixdogs]

My first car had tubes in the radio.

I worked in a garage and one of my assignments was to fix customer radios by replacing the blown tubes. I would take the tubes across the street to the drug store and use their free tube tester and then pick a new bulb from their rack.

 

[Jstpssng]

Last year I dug out the Panasonic transistor radio which I got for Christmas too many years ago. It had been in an unheated shed for 20 years and I was disappointed to see that it didn't work. I listened to that little AM radio a lot, 50+ years ago.

 

[sixdogs]

I'm not sure of the year but I got a transistor radio when they first came out. It was so cool to have one and they were clear as a bell and well made. They were just called "transistors" and not "transistor radios". If you had a transistor, you became a chick magnet.