Yea, we used to get radio from all over the place too.
I can remember my parents buying repaired used TVs for $2.00 dollars!!! One time they bought 3 for 5.00 dollars that looked like they were straight out of Jetsons or those old scientific movies for each of us kids. They were basically the glass tube screen sitting on a box were the knobs were.
We also bought what we called Jolopy's (old cars) for 20 bucks!

I bought my first car, 53 Ford 2 dr coupe for 5.00 dollars from my paper route money at 10 years old.

Too poor to buy one. There were 2 channels when we finally did get one, but reception out on the prairie was very bad.

Radio for sure! KAAY, Little Rock and Oklahoma City skipped off the ozone all the way to the north pole!

Remember...

Why no TV?...no reception? Must have had radio though, right?

Clem Kadiddlehopper with Mae West a long time ago.

Mae to Clem: “What’s your name?”
Clem: “Clem Kadiddlehopper.”
Mae: “Don’t get vulgar.”
Clem: “No. Vulgar Kadiddlehopper is my cousin.”

😉

“May God bless.”

We didn’t have a TV out on the prairie for quite a while. I don’t think that the Micky Mouse Club aired when we did. I do know of Annette, though, and Frank?

AH...the memories

Yes. It took me a long time when I was a kid to figure out it was Red Skelton, and not Red Skeleton.

Was never a fan of The Honeymooners, but liked Audrey Meadows in the movies. That Touch Of Mink and Take Her, She's Mine had Audrey at her wisecracking best.

Yes!

Thank you sweetie...

Laughing...

Remember it well....

You're not the only one! I had a huge crush on Darlene when I was five or six. Followed "Corky and White Shadow" religiously. Didn't know she was a redhead, though--no color TV back then.

Sorry. Going to expose myself as a youngun because my growing up was with morning cartoons - which actually had a moral message. I remember GI Joe, Transformers, and He-Man all ending up with a one-minute moral message from the show about being good. I don't know why those messages stopped being part of cartoons, but they did and our society isn't the better for it.

Now being a bit older, I've gone back and watched a bunch of those old shows, especially westerns like the Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, Bonanza, and Big Valley. All of them depicted good and bad behavior and you knew which was which. And good always won. I wish it were so cut and dried in our day...

Yes, comedic genius.

The last one is Red Skelton.....right?

I actually was fascinated with her competition on the Mouseketeers, Darlene, the redhead. Unfortunately, unlike Annette, Darlene made a series of really bad decisions, both about her professional and personal life.

Doing stuff the boys did to me was far better then playing dolls or with those fake kitchens!

Carl....you are never alone ((((((((((Carl)))))))))))****

except for barney fife...
agreed

She reminds me of my older 1/2 sister...she passed in her 50's like much of my family except for my Dad and one of his Sisters...can you sing, All By Myself?

DITTO!

Means you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.