LAST UPDATE 10/31/06
 
 
 
SINCE THIS IS A OLD TV PABE I THOUGHT THAT I WOULD START OUT BY SHARING THIS POEM THAT WAS SENT TO ME ON THE INTERNET BY E-MAIL.
IF YOU WERE BORN AFTER ABOUT 1950 YOU MAY NOT UNDERSTAND IT.
 
 
 
 
 
  "BLACK AND WHITE"
YOU COULD HARDLY SEE FOR ALL THE SNOW,
SPREAD THE RABBIT EARS AS FAR AS THEY GO.
PULL A CHAIR UP TO THE TV SET,
"GOOD NIGHT, DAVID. GOOD NIGHT,CHET."
DEPENDING ON THE CHANNEL YOU TUNED,
YOU GOT ROB AND LAURA OR WARD AND JUNE.
IT FELT SO GOOD, IT FELT SO RIGHT.
LIFE LOOKED BETTER IN BLACK AND WHITE.
 
 
 
I LOVE LUCY, THE REAL McCOYS,
DENNIS THE MENACE, THE CLEAVER BOYS,
RAWHIDE, GUNSMOKE, WAGON TRAIN,
SUPERMAN, JIMMY AND LOIS LANE.
FATHER KNOWS BEST, PATTY DUKE,
RIN TIN TIN AND LASSIE TOO,
DONNA REED ON THURSDAY NIGHT!--
LIFE LOOKED BETTER IN BLACK AND WHITE.
 
 
 
  I WANT TO GO BACK TO BLACK AND WHITE.
EVERYTHING ALWAYS TURNED OUT RIGHT.
SIMPLE PEOPLE, SIMPLE LIVES.
GOOD GUYS ALWAYS WON THE FIGHT.
 
 
 
 NOW NOTHING IS THE WAY IT SEEMS,
IN LIVING COLOR ON THE TV SCREENS.
TOO MANY MURDERS, TOO MANY FIGHTS,
I WANT TO GO BACK TO BLACK AND WHITE.
 
 
 
 IN GOD THEY TRUSTED, ALONE IN BED THEY SLEPT,
A PROMISE MADE WAS A PROMISE KEPT.
THEY NEVER CUSSED OR BROKE THEIR VOWS.
THEY'ED NEVER MAKE THE NETWORK NOW.
BUT IF I COULD I'D RATHER BE,
IN A TV TOWN IN '53.
IT FELT SO GOOD, IT FELT SO RIGHT.
LIFE LOOKED BETTER IN BLACK AND WHITE.
 
 
 
I'D TRADE ALL THE CHANNELS ON THE SATELLITE
IF I COULD JUST TURN BACK THE CLOCK TONIGHT
TO WHEN EVERYBODY KNEW WRONG FROM RIGHT.
LIFE WAS BETTER IN BLACK AND WHITE.
 
 
 
THIS IS MY NEWEST TV AQUISITION AND A SCREEN MAGNIFIER TOO!
THIS IS A PHILCO MODEL:50T701, 7" PLASTIC TABLE MODEL
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OOPS!! HAVE BEEN INFORMED AND CORRECTLY SO, THAT THIS SET WAS MANUFACTURED IN 1949 FOR THE 1950 MARKET. WILL UPDATE PHOTO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Don
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