My Mother and I went to town to shop and since it was a nice day we decided to walk around town for a bit before doing much shopping. We didn't get to town too often so when we did we wanted to make it worthwhile.
Going down Fourth Street in Williamsport we saw a black box showing a movie on it. It was in a window of a furniture store. We were absolutely fascinated with it and watched the whole program from outdoors. Daddy had told of the new television sets they were selling in town and he was gung-ho about getting one. We were excited about this but knew we lived way out in the boonies so maybe reception (a new word to us) wouldn't be good.
Well, the day came when Daddy came home with this new television!! We were so excited. He had an antenna to put up to bring in the channels. After hooking it up and plugging it in all we had was snow. Finally, he and the boys took the antenna up on top of the hill behind the house (about a 1/2 mile) and put a pipe in a tree so we could turn the antenna. The antenna was attached to the pipe and this was in turn anchored to the tall tree. By turning the pipe it would turn the antenna from the channel at Altoona to the one in Binghamtom, NY.
Saturday nights my Mother loved watching the midget wrestlers and this was on a different channel from all the other programs we watched. Not only that, this program came on at 10:00 at night, so a couple of us had to take the flashlight and go up the hill and turn the antenna. This was a little scary at night but the wrestling was fun to watch, even more so watching Mom enjoying the show so much.
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