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| Upper Left: Our relatively new RCA Victor television set. |
But my favorite was Disneyland, and, to a lesser degree, Disney's legendary weekday daytime show, Mickey Mouse Club.
MMC was as repetitive and regimented as the Lutheran church services I attended at Christ Lutheran Church in Linglestown, and just a tad monotonous, but I watched it for the classic Disney cartoons. Seeing cartoons from the 1930s and '40s was a rare and exciting experience for an animation buff in the pre-video/DVD days of the 1950s.
The same held true for Disneyland which often included equally rare and classic animation on its Fantasyland segments.
Reception was still somewhat spotty and we had an aerial that somehow rotated. Harrisburg had about two stations, channels 27 and 55, and we also pulled in channel 8 from Lancaster.
It was a long way from today's 300 channels and nothing you really want to watch TV.
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Now I remember watching the Wonderful World of Disney as a kid.....I've never been to Disneyland but I have done Disneyworld several times! Great concept for a blog!
ReplyDeleteSo what's an "aerial"? ;) (just kidding...)
ReplyDeleteMy parents marvel at the fact that they can now own, say, episodes of Spin and Marty via a DVD box set 50 years after they watched them in serial fashion on the MMC.