I had a small black and white portable TV and had to use either a coat hanger or a metal fork to get a better picture.
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My dad was a journalist and politician. And a social scientist. He had some works on politics and society published. And wrote a lot in newspapers and periodicals.
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Interesting. 
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Tissue handkerchiefs, then paper handkerchiefs which decomposed in the laundry. But I am not sure if this was a good development.
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We had a 4" portable tv/radio in black and white. Fork was best.
My dad was a serious antenna guy. There was a massive one on the side of the house that you could move manually. Living so close to the border we could pick up the Canadian channels running out of Toronto. I watched more of them than the American ones 
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Interesting! @Just_Laura watching Canadian TV.
This song is about the āborder blastersā.
Mexican radio stations on the border would blast into the USA at 150,000 watts ā¦ that much when US radios were broadcasting at 1,500 watts or even lots less.
The border radio stations blasted across the US. ā¦
Out in the middle of nowhere you could pick up these signals when you couldnāt pick up anything else.
And of course Wolfman Jack.
( For reference, KIIS a Las Angeles station broadcasting to a million people uses 8,000 watts)
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Soft driven, slow and mad like some new language.
They sure donāt write 'em like this any more.
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I usually preferred Canadian radio as well. My dad was also a huge radio guy. There were dozens in our house. A lot of those stations faded in and out if you were driving but my dad installed a super antenna on his car!
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Was your dad a ham radio guy? Just curious because I have a license.
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Remember XTRA? 
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All the radios. We used CB a lot so we could camp out in the nature preserve behind our house alone as kids and still be able to contact home with these super legit walkie talkies.
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Watching: Mamaās Family/Star Trek The Next Generation with my mom 
For phone calls: I carried quarters in my car to stop by a pay phone.
@Amy30 I remember before we would go on group trips, we would print out Mapquest for all the drivers! Pre-Internet, it was stopping and getting a map!
FLOOR MOUNTED TV:
WHO REMEMBERS CHANNEL U?
(also, you could turn the bottom nob to channel 58, IT WAS THE BOX, MUSIC TELEVISION YOU CONTROL. Ahhh the 90āsā¦)
Blockbuster video: I would go on a friday and pick up my video games/Popular movies to watch on tape!
I used to play in a āMaddenā football league. Because there was no Streaming, we would use memory cards to play over a friends house to load up our teams!
I used to create games when i was little. I would play with Pencils, kind of like a baseball game. I would use a book as the ābackstopā Throw Pennies and see if i could use my hand as the ābatterā and hit the pennies at a certain point in the room for a single/double/triple or home run. (I was in isolation alot).
I had to be pretty creative as we didnāt have cable either. But it made me love the outdoors and creativity.
25 years later: My sons do the same things, there so creative, it touches my heart!
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Yep, Age 16, i had my first manual typing class. Next year i was in ābusiness technologyā when we finally got computer for typing.
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I had a CD player (walkman) with a Tape you could put into car tape player. I tell young people this and there like, WAIT, IT WAS A TAPE PLAYER THAT ATTACHED TO A CD PLAYER? YEP.
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I had the same thing for my first 2 cars
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Hey, does anybody remember Swatch watches? These things were all the rage when I was in High School.
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Ah, it was your dogās shit I was sliding on and through, playing soccer in the park as a kid! My mum was very happy with you and your dog, having to wash it all out of my jeans 
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Ah, yesā¦and it got stuck in the traction of my shoes and Iād get reemed out by Mom for tracking it into the house. Thanks, man.
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I was jealous of my cousins who lived close to Germany so they had an additional three channels to watch. Around 1980 we got cable tv in Amsterdam, adding Belgian and German tv channels to what we could watch. And the BBC, but the first years only with favourable weather conditions.
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