Thread: Born in the 50's, 60, 70's...stuff we grew up with!

Ha! I am figuring since they said from '63 that this is it! I remember setting it on the ground and sticking thumbs in to cock it.
Sucker would propel most anything! I reckon she was lucky I hit her with the ( included) blue rocket instead of other 'options' !
We launched everything we could find from it!

The old 1950s TVS ....... The screen would roll vertically, or horizontally and you had to get up and adjust a little knob to plumb it up ........ but as soon as you got up it would stop ....... and as soon as you sat back down it would start rolling again ...... those were the days .

Jimmy, my dad had one of those for the family, it must have been old because the original antenna was gone, so he used a clothes hanger with a wadded up ball of aluminum foil on the end of it instead.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

The old 1950s TVS ....... The screen would roll vertically, or horizontally and you had to get up and adjust a little knob to plumb it up ........ but as soon as you got up it would stop ....... and as soon as you sat back down it would start rolling again ...... those were the days .

Born mid-70s; raised on a farm. Cable TV was not an option. So we'd have to take turns going outside to turn the antenna to pick up the different stations from the two closest cities.