You all think you had it rough. I had to wade through 16 feet of shag carpet to change the channel. Those sissies today with their remotes just don't have any concept of what we went through just to watch TV.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
You all think you had it rough. I had to wade through 16 feet of shag carpet to change the channel. Those sissies today with their remotes just don't have any concept of what we went through just to watch TV.
We didn't have TV until I was 13. We'd go over to my grandparents 2 or 3 days a week to watch TV when I was little. Sometimes mom would let us stay over on a Friday night so we could watch cartoons Saturday morning. My grandparents did like to watch Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw.
We were so poor we couldn't even pay attention! My mom was a big Lawrence Welk fan. She even played his records on our Magnavox stereo console. Sometimes things went a little haywire on the show.
Wag more, bark less.
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The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.
Paternal Grandma got Christmas cards from Lawrence Welk. Later when I had kids they began fighting over the TV regularly. I got tired of telling them to stop. Turned it off, unplugged it, and cut the cord off at the casing. It was that way for about three years during which they learned to play together, by themselves, or read, etc. It gave me more peace all the way around. Momma was happier too. Be Well, RZ.
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And not that dancing kneegrow boy Arthur Duncan gonna cut da rug! !
LOL !
My grandad always said he'd watch the Lawrence Welk Show until ^^^ "he" ^^^ came on, and then he'd go to bed...
Grandad meant it too! When that tap dancer came on, he'd cuss a bit, then get up, and go to bed!
Sounds like my GrandDad too !
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I read a while back that old tightwad only paid those full time musicians $110 a week. Guess they sucked it up for the exposure, for whatever that was worth on that gay ass show.
I don't know what they were paid per show - but they were getting union scale or better and it was 1971 - so how many hours did they work for that $110 ?