Now we can all listen to our own music, watch our own programs, create our own playlist. But something seems to be missing.
Back in the early 60s, well before most of this magazines readers were born. “television” meant a wooden box in a neighbor’s house — a box with a glass screen on which fuzzy black and white images moved, making tinny raspy noises through a speaker in one corner of the machine, Since it was our neighbor’s TV, we were at the mercy of whatever she deemed worthy of her time and her electricity.
But it was okay; we all had fun, and couldn’t stop talking about what we saw, over dinner, while we fervently pledged to succeed in life so we could buy our own TV.
At that same time. “radio” meant one of two, maybe three, things. It might have been a large wood-paneled appliance with cathedral windows and knobs that moved a dial from here to there, transporting you at nearly every stop to a station playing sweetly sleepy music. Or it could have been a portable wooden or plastic shoebox powered by enough size-D batteries to run a small boat, or yet again — if you were young and hip — a truly pocketable transistor radio that sounded like it housed a colony of musical ants, but never mind that; in the world of mono, there was nothing cooler than walking around with an AM/FM radio glued to your ear (Yes, we had earphones even then — just one, not two — and it was the shape and almost the size of an acorn.)
This, to us, was home entertainment, and it was plenty entertaining, because we had precious few other options.
It was a lot cheaper to stay at home, and sit all together in the living room with the TV and the radio — and ah, yes, let’s not forget the record player (aka the phonograph). With its scratchy speaker, sapphire needle, and a little plastic adaptor you used to thread a 45rpm record into a standard 78 or 33rpm setup.
Today, I’m swimming in a sea of iPods and assorted media players.
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