Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for March 29, 2015
March 28, 2015
March 30, 2015
Transcript:
Cartoons are on TV nonstop these days. When I was your age, cartoons were on TV on Saturday morning, and that was it! And what if you had other plans on a Saturday morning? You are out of luck. I never knew grandma had it so hard as a kid. Surprise the trauma didn't leave for scarred.
It was 1953. I was 6 years old and we got our first TV. There were 2 channels, both in black and white. We all went to Birmingham to the Western Auto to buy it. That’s where I saw my first TV show. Howdy Doody. I still remember it. Clarabelle the Clown was throwing suitcases into a train boxcar, but the door was open on the other side and it just went through! Funny then to a 6yo!