I grew up in the 60's. We were lucky and got a nice Zenith color TV in 67. We went out on bought it on s Saturday morning and when we got it home a golf tournament was on and the green greens looked amazing. This was the dawning of a new day - a lot like the first HD TV you got was in the 2000's. We were too cheap to buy a remote control though (this was WAY before cable, which game by default with a remote to surf all those new channels), so I lay on the floor a few feet from the TV and used my big toe to push the channel button.
We were barely middle-class. 1600 sq ft house. I don't recall if my friends had color but I kind of think 67 would have been about the time color TV was becoming mainstream, similar to the HD era when you could buy one for about 1 k. Anyway, we were very far from rich. My Mom was a secretary and my dad sold TV time for a local TV station. @MonsieurPogo
I would love to see one of the TV repair channels go over one of those predictas. Would be insane if the flyback was in the tuner cabinet and they ran the 20kV thru that cable.
Maypo, lol, I was 6 in 1966, batman, superman and voyage to the bottom of the sea were my favs, TV definitely had an effect on me, I'm still watching it right now, although my screen is only about 4" × 8"
2 Philco sets in our home. One French Provincial console for Mom's shows in the living room, and Dad's Danish Modern in the family room for his Maple Leaf hockey games.
What a GREAT VIDEO ! I love the faux "EDWARD R. MURROW" Announcer for "SPOT" TELEVISION ! This is when TV'S were furniture. My parents bought their first TV when I was 4 years old in 1949. It was a Motorola with a 16-inch screen. I grew up in Northern California in the 50s and we only had maybe 3 or 4 channels by 1951 and not 24 hours a day. Amazing how far TV has come. Who would have thought that when I was 4 years old watching "Howdy Doody", that a Giagantic flatscreen tv you could hang on a wall was waiting for me in the future !
I was born in 1954 in a Chicago suburb, but we didn't have a TV until 1958. In actual fact there were TV broadcasts in the late 1920's but the Great Depression and WWII delayed TV being available to the general public until after WWII.
I noticed in old movies from the thirties sometimes TV screens pop up in strange situations. Not the family sitting around watching the news, but I think in science fiction movies.
Brings back memories of my dad…”don’t sit so close to the TV…you’ll get radiation poisoning!” or “you’re watching television again?….do you have televitis ?”
Took a bit to crackle warm up. Tuner went 'Puh-Thunk Puh-Thunk. Five six channels. Rabbit ears. Nothing after Midnight really. Shut it off and it shrinks to a spot. Glorious times kids. Really.
Really interesting to see some of your ads and promotional features here in the UK. Not sure I would have pleasant dreams after seeing the clown in the RCA colour TV ad, more likely to have terrifying nightmares! 🤭🤣
A boring presentation about TV marketing made hilarious with some weird stuff from Bob and Ray. This is the first I have really heard them before and I loved this. I also love that 50's Philco TV.
What was wrong with the fifties? Compared to what? The wonderland we’re living in right now? Please, bring back the fifties and I wasn’t alive during the fifties.
@@Nunofurdambiznez rose colored glasses. Old people always look back and remember the good things while repressing/pretending the bad didn't happen. If you remember the 50s fondly, i can already guess what you're referring to as "right".
The Predicta used a long, thick cable to connect the picture tube to the TV. This cable carried very high voltage. If your dog or cat started chewing on it...good bye pet!
Young People - feel for the over 60s for once Americans are probably more used to erecting a 2nd antenna or ariel to gain more channels. in Britain tv choice was beyond backward because we had just 3 channels until 1982. there was 4 if you were middle class & could fork out 10 weeks wages for a VCR in 1980 & Cable was something reserved for Swindon & London from the mid 80s along with Satellite in German or Dutch from 1985. The only option otherwise was a Regional variation in the National iTV network. Only those in back of beyond locations where coverage overlaps occurred,had an option of buying high gain antenna & mounting the rig as high above the ground as possible then perhaps an early evening or late night choice of either Ironside /Canon /Mc Cloud / Rockford Files /Kojak ( detective shows from America ) say from the neighbouring region vs in my old folks region usually showing Murder She Wrote & the different region news programmes of 50 minutes at teatime repeated at 22:30. If the weather didn’t bore you to death TV in Britain before 1982 would. Punk was inevitable. It’s no wonder they had larger families back then.
I have repaired Tube TV's and radios. I for one am glad the tube era was replaced by solid state components. The old tube stuff was made to fail if you ask me just by design.
I know the "TV repairman" was a profession in demand. Most TV's needed repair within a year or two of purchase and would need multiple services to stay in operation for any length of time. I remember taking the tubes down to the drugstore and plugging them into the tube tester and buying 2 or 3 new tubes taking them all home and plugging them back in and get the thing running again. My stingy stepdad. We didn't get a color TV until 1980.
Well this concludes our broadcasting day as we will be back with another OUTSTANDING PROGRAM LINEUP later on this morning at 5:50 AM so until then have a very pleasant morning and new day coming up==and now for our NATIONAL ANTHEM!!! (IWO JIMA statue seen with AMERICAN FLAG PROUDLY WAVING with musical NATIONAL ANTHEM theme playing on MOST TV STATIONS in the U S A****NOTE== Welcome back and a very good morning at 5:50 AM as we here at CBS TV2 NEW YORK CITY present another outstanding broadcast day==and now our MORNING PRAYER with FATHER SHAUN O SULLIVAN seen here at CLANCYS BAR and GRILLE****
They didn't get as good a picture because of the short gun on the back of the picture tube. We had old TVs because my parents had four kids and a mortgage on a house to pay with a one income family. It was before a lot of women worked.
Well, there is a peanut butter brand called "Skippy" and I can see how people would commonly mix the two names together creating a third imaginary brand called Jiffy. There could also have been an off-brand or an in-store brand that tried to copy Jiff labeling, creating a false memory about a product that no longer exists and only a few people vaguely recall. Ed McMahan was the TV spokesman for American Family Publishers, a competitor of Publishers Clearing House. False memories occur way more often than people think.
They should revive Bob & Rays' "Complication" board game that used all sorts of pieces, including peppermint patties! People nowadays are too afraid to venture beyond Risk and 3D chess!
I remember dad bringing home an old black and white console in the 80's. It had an over lay plastic sheet with a green, red, yellow circle on it. Like a bullseye.... Any ideas what that was?
Lol i see the Predicta TV prophecy as i send the video from my phone to my Flat screen TV across the room with WIFI and Bluetooth. I could have it come on in the kids room if i wanted and even troll my next door neighbor by sending something mildly inappropriate over to their flat screen. 😏 🤣
One of those reversed circumstances where the show is awful but the ads are a delight. Do yourself a favor and fast forward until about the 20-minute mark.
I cringed when that family’s mom picked up the TV and moved it near the dinner table. That pretty much explains what happened to quality family time at the dinner hour over the last 60 years or so.
Why are mucho volks these days nasty while some are very nice I am nursing home resident well it has happen all over in my travels volks are nasty at times oh that is a ladies shirt they are in business to sell take your dinero Some clothes wash places laundry look at me when the wash is mixed sex I gave them business $$$$$$$dinero who should care sex wise should doctors nurses now girls are fixing cars or doing male jobs some volks are picky mucho i am a picky dresser business person. How I do things why if not done properly I can not sell it or dressing right not be comfortable girls wearily anything they want to and no one cares but males most of society goes dinky Dow I love being mucho comfortable like it or not sorry volks it is not the end of the world or society’s ending
I grew up in the 60's. We were lucky and got a nice Zenith color TV in 67. We went out on bought it on s Saturday morning and when we got it home a golf tournament was on and the green greens looked amazing. This was the dawning of a new day - a lot like the first HD TV you got was in the 2000's. We were too cheap to buy a remote control though (this was WAY before cable, which game by default with a remote to surf all those new channels), so I lay on the floor a few feet from the TV and used my big toe to push the channel button.
Sitting on the floor close to the TV was a thing even with remote control :D Probably why i wear glasses even though no relative does.
We were barely middle-class. 1600 sq ft house. I don't recall if my friends had color but I kind of think 67 would have been about the time color TV was becoming mainstream, similar to the HD era when you could buy one for about 1 k. Anyway, we were very far from rich. My Mom was a secretary and my dad sold TV time for a local TV station. @MonsieurPogo
I'm not an insomniac, just a huge fan of retro advertising. Glad I clicked on. Great stuff!
Gee, if you don’t look closely you won’t see the 25 foot cord that connects the Predicta picture tube to its control cabinet.
And the 20,000 volts running through it will be no trouble at all!
I would love to see one of the TV repair channels go over one of those predictas. Would be insane if the flyback was in the tuner cabinet and they ran the 20kV thru that cable.
Maypo, lol, I was 6 in 1966, batman, superman and voyage to the bottom of the sea were my favs, TV definitely had an effect on me, I'm still watching it right now, although my screen is only about 4" × 8"
I still use an Early Model Color TV here, Howdy Doody and Batman in Color !
I remember Elizabeth Montgomery making an announcement "Stay tuned for Bewitched, Now in Color" i was like 5 years old.
2 Philco sets in our home. One French Provincial console for Mom's shows in the living room, and Dad's Danish Modern in the family room for his Maple Leaf hockey games.
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's French Provincial or Early American television sets. It's a television, not a friggin' piece of furniture.
What a GREAT VIDEO ! I love the faux "EDWARD R. MURROW" Announcer for "SPOT" TELEVISION ! This is when TV'S were furniture. My parents bought their first TV when I was 4 years old in 1949. It was a Motorola with a 16-inch screen. I grew up in Northern California in the 50s and we only had maybe 3 or 4 channels by 1951 and not 24 hours a day. Amazing how far TV has come. Who would have thought that when I was 4 years old watching "Howdy Doody", that a Giagantic flatscreen tv you could hang on a wall was waiting for me in the future !
That Zenith pitchman's delivery was about as exciting as watching paint dry. I imagine all the salesmen who watched it fell asleep before it was over.
1:08 I'm carrying my tablet over to my dining room table right now, to watch this!
It's like it's after dinner at my grandparents house. 😌
Warm up the television
I was born in 1954 in a Chicago suburb, but we didn't have a TV until 1958. In actual fact there were TV broadcasts in the late 1920's but the Great Depression and WWII delayed TV being available to the general public until after WWII.
I noticed in old movies from the thirties sometimes TV screens pop up in strange situations. Not the family sitting around watching the news, but I think in science fiction movies.
@@hermanhale9258- I've seen that in a couple of 1930's movies myself. Maybe the media thought TV would take off sooner than it did.
I hear Bob & Ray doing some of the voices in the "Spot TV" film.
yesterdays pictures bring back that old familiar flavor
Brings back memories of my dad…”don’t sit so close to the TV…you’ll get radiation poisoning!” or “you’re watching television again?….do you have televitis ?”
Yeah, my grandmother used to say I'd get square eyes because I watched so much TV. late 1960s to 1970s
@@marekryszardI'm sure I heard variations of that in the 80's.
He sounds like a moron.
I 💖 the Predicta model 📺 !!!!
Took a bit to crackle warm up. Tuner went 'Puh-Thunk Puh-Thunk. Five six channels. Rabbit ears. Nothing after Midnight really. Shut it off and it shrinks to a spot. Glorious times kids. Really.
Excellent editing and producing! Thank you!
Love this channel. Retro Futurism 🇺🇸❤
Really interesting to see some of your ads and promotional features here in the UK.
Not sure I would have pleasant dreams after seeing the clown in the RCA colour TV ad, more likely to have terrifying nightmares! 🤭🤣
A boring presentation about TV marketing made hilarious with some weird stuff from Bob and Ray. This is the first I have really heard them before and I loved this. I also love that 50's Philco TV.
There were lots of things wrong with the 50's, but the optimism is refreshing.
I was alive in the '50s.. I don't recall " lots of things wrong".. I believe you mean there were lots of things RIGHT in the 50s...
@@Nunofurdambiznez some of it was good, but there was a lot of crap, too.
What was wrong with the fifties? Compared to what? The wonderland we’re living in right now? Please, bring back the fifties and I wasn’t alive during the fifties.
@@Nunofurdambiznez rose colored glasses. Old people always look back and remember the good things while repressing/pretending the bad didn't happen. If you remember the 50s fondly, i can already guess what you're referring to as "right".
@@heartofjesusdj oh bless your heart
1:20 Gotta love how she loves the kiddy show.
Was having trouble sleeping so out of the blue looked up sleepcore. Im so glad i did. I LOVE the 1950s look and history 🥺
I love the piece on advertising advertising. And I still want a Predicta Tandem. Thanks for another fun, informative upload.
Wow, that was Sue Randall (Miss Landers on Leave it to Beaver) in the first commercial!
The Predicta used a long, thick cable to connect the picture tube to the TV. This cable carried very high voltage. If your dog or cat started chewing on it...good bye pet!
Really? I wondered. They don't show the cable.
Oh, they do. Missed it the first time.
No wonder I didn't remember that tv. Surely it wasn't on the market very long.
That’s got to be Bob and Ray on the Edward R Murrow Spot TV advertising section.
Yes it a another sleepcore 😮
I was 9year old when my parents got a 📺 when they came out then 😊😮 watching cartoons and Surperman
Young People - feel for the over 60s for once
Americans are probably more used to erecting a 2nd antenna or ariel to gain more channels. in Britain tv choice was beyond backward because we had just 3 channels until 1982. there was 4 if you were middle class & could fork out 10 weeks wages for a VCR in 1980 & Cable was something reserved for Swindon & London from the mid 80s along with Satellite in German or Dutch from 1985. The only option otherwise was a Regional variation in the National iTV network. Only those in back of beyond locations where coverage overlaps occurred,had an option of buying high gain antenna & mounting the rig as high above the ground as possible then perhaps an early evening or late night choice of either Ironside /Canon /Mc Cloud / Rockford Files /Kojak ( detective shows from America ) say from the neighbouring region vs in my old folks region usually showing Murder She Wrote & the different region news programmes of 50 minutes at teatime repeated at 22:30. If the weather didn’t bore you to death TV in Britain before 1982 would. Punk was inevitable.
It’s no wonder they had larger families back then.
Fantastic love this channel and you seem like a great guy. That matters, thanks!
Thank you for posting 👍👍
“Hello! Vault Tech calling!” 🚀
I have repaired Tube TV's and radios. I for one am glad the tube era was replaced by solid state components. The old tube stuff was made to fail if you ask me just by design.
I know the "TV repairman" was a profession in demand. Most TV's needed repair within a year or two of purchase and would need multiple services to stay in operation for any length of time. I remember taking the tubes down to the drugstore and plugging them into the tube tester and buying 2 or 3 new tubes taking them all home and plugging them back in and get the thing running again.
My stingy stepdad. We didn't get a color TV until 1980.
But you can't raise bread dough on top of modern tv's!@@Lethgar_Smith
And the new stuff isn't?..🙄
That Philco Safari TV sure looks like the tri-corder on Star Trek
A time capsule of the ancient days of Television & its related technology. 📺
Is this a bit of Bob and Ray? They were the best. Hard to find, would love to hear more.
Thank you!
I loveeee retro/vintage TVs. Wish I had one!
Well this concludes our broadcasting day as we will be back with another OUTSTANDING PROGRAM LINEUP later on this morning at 5:50 AM so until then have a very pleasant morning and new day coming up==and now for our NATIONAL ANTHEM!!! (IWO JIMA statue seen with AMERICAN FLAG PROUDLY WAVING with musical NATIONAL ANTHEM theme playing on MOST TV STATIONS in the U S A****NOTE== Welcome back and a very good morning at 5:50 AM as we here at CBS TV2 NEW YORK CITY present another outstanding broadcast day==and now our MORNING PRAYER with FATHER SHAUN O SULLIVAN seen here at CLANCYS BAR and GRILLE****
Wow,philco invented the portable tv.
"One year warranty excluding labor." Wow. Starting at $495. Which is about $7500 now!
I luv retro stuff. I dont remember any of this really, even tho i grew up in the 60s
2nd Last Commercial (RCA Factory Service): That male singer sound a lot like either Perry Como or Vaughan Monroe.
Listening to this video now with my Philco powered tube amp.
They didn't get as good a picture because of the short gun on the back of the picture tube. We had old TVs because my parents had four kids and a mortgage on a house to pay with a one income family. It was before a lot of women worked.
@18:17 he mentions 'jiffy' peanut butter, it displays 'jif', the Mandela effect goes back to the 1960s by the looks of it.
Every once in a while, something slips through like this did. It was JIFFY when I was a kid in the 70's and I remember the logo well.
Well, there is a peanut butter brand called "Skippy" and I can see how people would commonly mix the two names together creating a third imaginary brand called Jiffy.
There could also have been an off-brand or an in-store brand that tried to copy Jiff labeling, creating a false memory about a product that no longer exists and only a few people vaguely recall.
Ed McMahan was the TV spokesman for American Family Publishers, a competitor of Publishers Clearing House.
False memories occur way more often than people think.
Good catch
My dad had voice activated tv remote control… he would say what channel he wanted and I would have change it
is the spot tv thing done by bob and ray?
Yes!
@@jerrywithers8118 comedic geniuses
When tomorrow allowed looking into the future; how's that again?
I wonder why the separate chassis and screen did not catch on.
At about 3 min in, the guy sounds like Edward R Murrow, and that "chairman" might have been Chairman Minnow...
God Bless Bob & Ray.
They should revive Bob & Rays' "Complication" board game that used all sorts of pieces, including peppermint patties! People nowadays are too afraid to venture beyond Risk and 3D chess!
The previous video in my queue was coverage of Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation.
Getting hit with "WOW-OO-WOW-OO-WOWWW" felt weirdly appropriate
Pictured on the TV is the Bomarc missile..
This is all warm and fuzzy
I remember dad bringing home an old black and white console in the 80's. It had an over lay plastic sheet with a green, red, yellow circle on it. Like a bullseye....
Any ideas what that was?
Sure miss my MOMS
No printed circuits = point to point rat's nest when you flip over the chassis.
😽TY for posting
May Pole serial was pretty good I remember.
35:22 why are all the tvs off? weird. frighteningly weird
Totally said JIF called it JIFFY, no wonder .
Damn this is crazy ! "Television has changed our life in only 10 years" now we have tiktok and social media !!!
Move the PREDICTA to another room... then you had to go to another room to change the channel.
I seriously wonder if the crystal ball of ancient times wasn't just a form of CRT....
That technicolor short is technicolor or it would be magenta, It looks like it was in 1962.
What will they think of next?
Westview NJ mid century vibes
70 years later, it's still a Vast Waste Land.
Lol i see the Predicta TV prophecy as i send the video from my phone to my Flat screen TV across the room with WIFI and Bluetooth. I could have it come on in the kids room if i wanted and even troll my next door neighbor by sending something mildly inappropriate over to their flat screen. 😏 🤣
Westview NJ vibes
One of those reversed circumstances where the show is awful but the ads are a delight. Do yourself a favor and fast forward until about the 20-minute mark.
It is the one eyed monster.
One year warranty wasn't enough for a color TV!
How about was meant to be seen by the artist?
SCIENCE! They have blinded me with Science....😱📺
Zinth didn't introduce equally portable color t.v's in 67
I cringed when that family’s mom picked up the TV and moved it near the dinner table. That pretty much explains what happened to quality family time at the dinner hour over the last 60 years or so.
I was thinking the same thing. Lol.
Yep. Was gonna make a post linking that moment saying essentially the same.
EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS ! ! !
Was that first tv Bluetooth?
God bless Capitalism
Those generic robotic voices back then
Fallout
Why are mucho volks these days nasty while some are very nice I am nursing home resident well it has happen all over in my travels volks are nasty at times oh that is a ladies shirt they are in business to sell take your dinero Some clothes wash places laundry look at me when the wash is mixed sex I gave them business $$$$$$$dinero who should care sex wise should doctors nurses now girls are fixing cars or doing male jobs some volks are picky mucho i am a picky dresser business person. How I do things why if not done properly I can not sell it or dressing right not be comfortable girls wearily anything they want to and no one cares but males most of society goes dinky Dow I love being mucho comfortable like it or not sorry volks it is not the end of the world or society’s ending
This narrator has to go! Wow! I simply couldn't listen.
Wow does the narrator speak strangely! His voice drops deeply at the end of each sentence. It's quite annoying to me.
Talk to your social worker about it.
Was thinking that too
"BORING"
Amazing! Imagine that, a 17 inch tv. It's unbelievable.
This sounds like "The Bob & Ray Show."
30:30 Wow the charisma. And such a hottie, too.