I hope this picture makes it, I haven't posted a graphic in a while...this is me, circa 1957, "adjusting" the family console, which I think was an HMV from England. It did not fare well at the hands of  toddler and was replaced by a Grundig that had nice sturdy plastic knobs and pushbuttons and a BSR changer that was very robust. It had a 7 x 10 inch woofer and two single-ended electrostatic tweeters, one each side (this was mono).

Ah Yes, our mis-spent childhood ............ Black and White TV's, if you had one ..... not the choices that kids have today .... Wow, we've come a long way, really we have ............ just think of the camera that took that picture ....phones that take pictures today, phones, anyway remember having a "Party Line"?, no, not that kinda' party...............

 Nice shoes.

Back then if you wanted a remote for the TV , you had to have kids !

I can remember listening to fights on the radio with my dad.

Oldbuckster,

You may want to explain a party line to some of these kids still wet behind the ears...

Party Lines....              Talk about lack of security in communication!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony) 

Wow  

I'm not as old as some here but as late as 1991 we had a party line where I lived in the boonies in southern MO.

Yes we had a party line.... The second party would listen in on my conversation....I woud delibratly say some thing off color to hear her breath heavier. And some times talk about her to P**s her off.   (some thing like this open line on this forum)

We were living in France when this was taken, we had no phone at home.

The camera that took this was a 1950 Canon IIE, made in occupied Japan, a 35 mm rangefinder. 

My first discovery in audio was that if you moved the changer "overarm" back over the tone arm, Purple People Eater would repeat until some adult lost their mind and grabbed the record and hid it. 

 Gosh, my start was in '62, I was 4 years old, my mom, like any good Carlsbad housewife and wife of a USN Captain,  had a pair of Klipshorns, Heresy center channel and McIntosh power equipment, since then I have progressed to a pair of Heresy II;s and a pair of RF 52's and a RC-52(just traded up).  Not sure which I like better yet, the RF series is smooth and efficient, but the Heritage series just has a sonic characteristic that is unbeatable.

Fact is the Heresy II's have a unique sonic quality, and I will not part with them. 

dtel:

Back then if you wanted a remote for the TV , you had to have kids !

I can remember listening to fights on the radio with my dad.

I listened to Gunsmole on the radio, whenever I visited my grandparent's home. Even though the tv serires was already airing. He used to listen to the fights, which I never liked as a kid. I am thinking mid '50s.

dtel:

Back then if you wanted a remote for the TV , you had to have kids !

I can remember listening to fights on the radio with my dad.

So when did you turn into a gray cat?

jacksonbart:

So when did you turn into a gray cat?

That is Hiro The Great, Lord of The Underbed World...cats & Klipsch have been noted on a couple of prior threads...the Corns make  nice sized, conveient height perches for him & his sister. 

boom3:

My first discovery in audio was that if you moved the changer "overarm" back over the tone arm, Purple People Eater would repeat until some adult lost their mind and grabbed the record and hid it

LOUIE LOUIE :  by the Kingsmen for me ............ over,and over, and over .................