Poll: Did you ever have a black & white TV?

The rotary phone discussion made me think about Black& White TVs. I remember getting our first color set. I think I was about 14 or 15. I still watched a black and white till I was 21 or so.

I don't really recall us having a B&W TV. Besides those little portables with batteries.

I do remember having those huge dials that went chunka-chunka-chunka as you switched around channels.� And remotes to the VCR with cords. And having to worry about UHF and VHF.

I still use a chunka-chunka style console set.� My two newer sets both fell due to lightning strikes.�I use a cable box for actual channel changing, but I still have to chunka-chunka when I hook up the old game systems. :-)

We never had one in our house, but my grandmother had one and I watched it quite a bit as a child.

I remember when I was pretty young I associated "black-and-white" with "boring" (maybe because boring things were often on at my grandmother's house?) and tended to tune out anything in B&W. So it wasn't until I was 13 that I realized that the characters from the beginning of The Wizard of Oz had any relationship to the people in Oz. Heh.

Seeing The Wizard of Oz for the first time in color was such a revelation. In B&W you don't get that amazing moment when she opens the door to Oz and everything is in technicolor. You also don't get the joke about The Horse of a Different Color.

I actually hooked up my commodore 64 computer to a black and white tv for a while

I use to watch "Creature Features"� on a black and white tv. Creature Features was a Saturday show on channel 5 from New York. They had lots of really cheesy horror movies from the 1950's...

I loved Creature Features. They even used one of my Creature Quotes; "The Mummy had no daddy.

I also loved Chiller Theatre with the great six fingered hand coming out of the ground

I am aware of the existance of black & white television sets....I have never seen one, though.

*ducks*

I had a b&w portable TV when I was a teenager and I loved it. And I got more stations than my 'rents with their color TV :D (color needs more db than b&w :)

And there was no such thing as cable TV when I was a teenager :D

Yes there was, it was around when I was a preteen. It was just not available where you lived. It wasn't available where I lived till I was in my thirties.

We had one for the longest time that you had to pound on quite violently for the picture to stay in the right place. We also had a colour TV at the same time, that my parents got so that I could watch Sesame Street in colour. :)

Our first TV in our house was B&W with no cable.

I think this was around 1974 or 1975

I think my parents purchased their 1st TV (b/w) shortly after I was born apparently they needed some kind of stress relief - so that must have been around 1965/66...
And they got a color TV in the mid 70s (damn. now I'm earwormed w/ Deirdre Flint :)