I'm so old,

[Ptah]

Lawrence Welk was MTV

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Yeppers.

Also, Liberace and Your Hit Parade.


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[Ptah]

3. And Mitch Miller!

Follow the dot

[csziggy]

19. Mitch Miller was a good guy, too

[rzemanfl]

33. I should read the thread before I post. You were way ahead of me on Your Hit Parade. n/t

[Glamrock]

2. I'm getting there.

I remember when MTV played music videos....

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. Yep

Same here.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. I remember when there was no MTV.

Only 3 black and white channels, all of which went off the air at midnight, they played the National Anthem and then you got silence and snow. Later on you got a picture, because seeing snow on a tv could also mean something was wrong with your reception , so they put up a picture.
Tv went back on the air at 6 am.

[cloudbase]

40. This

[dixiegrrrrl]

41. YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Altho my memory sez it used to be the Indian head in the center, bigger.

[cloudbase]

43. It may have been.

Different companies used different patterns. RCA had theirs, Dumont had theirs. . .

[Ohiogal]

30. "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles was the debut video, wasn't it?

[Glamrock]

37. Yep

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. LOL!

I remember when my grandma came to visit us from time to time and she'd always want to watch Lawrence Welk, and we kids would whine and complain but Mom insisted that grandma should watch her show. I thought he was hopelessly square even then.

[FiveGoodMen]

11. "Hopelessly square" is exactly right!

Saw a few minutes of re-run in recent years.

Wow!

[csziggy]

20. Mom watched Lawrence Welk up to a few years ago

When I finally told her that it had been in re-runs for over thirty years. Even then she'd watch many weeks while it ran on the local educational channel.

The original Lawrence Welk show was last made in 1982 though they did make family specials through 2011.

[Freddie]

27. My Grandma was in a nursing home

Mid-70s til she died in ‘84. If you went to visit her in a Sat. evening, 7:00 was Lawrence Welk Time for the whole place and the hour was sacrosanct.

[dixiegrrrrl]

44. Then along came Liberace....

My poor misguided mother thought his show gave her great insight in to...classical music.

[Snackshack]

5. Lawn Darts...

...were fun for the whole family.

[OilemFirchen]

6. Cigarettes were 25 cents a pack and gasoline was 27 cents a gallon.

Decisions, decisions...

[GeoWilliam750]

7. You young Whippersnapper!

[OilemFirchen]

9. I'm very healthy for my age!

All that walking to the gas station vending machine, I guess.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. I'm so old,

Saturday morning cartoons were on the radio.

[OilemFirchen]

13. I'm so old...

we had to draw our own cartoons on cave walls.

[red dog 1]

22. Good one!

[chillfactor]

12. don't forget Bandstand.....

another favorite of mine growing up...but maybe you are not as old as I am.

[dhol82]

52. I managed to get in twice.

That was such a thrill.

[GReedDiamond]

14. I'm so old, I not only remember the Larry Welk Show...

...I saw THIS on YouTube!:

[Hoyt]

15. Way old enough to remember Welk, but his show was awful.

[MissMillie]

16. Growing up we watched it every week

My folks would mostly let us choose what we wanted to watch (Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, etc) but only if they got to see Lawrence Welk every week.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Our house was not as democratic as yours.

We lived in a dictatorship. Adults chose the tv shows. Us kids got watch Sat. morning cartoons, if we were very quiet and let the adults sleep in.
Sundays there was noting on except boring old talk shows. TV people assumed everyone was in church then Sunday family dinner.
We heathens suffered, I tell you. Suffered!!

[Ohiogal]

32. Same here.

We watched what the adults wanted to watch, case closed.

[kwassa]

21. Davey Crockett coonskin hat.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. My little brother had one of those when he was about 3.

It was his most prized possession. He'd run around the house wearing the hat and singing the Davy Crockett song.

[Cartoonist]

39. Zorro

A toy sword that held a piece of chalk so you could write a Z

[steve2470]

23. my parents liked to watch Lawrence Welk

I did not dare question why

I'm so old, there was no such thing as FM radio, at least not to me. Maybe they had it "up north", but not in my area.

[red dog 1]

24. I remember watching re-runs of the Amos & Andy TV show,

which had a mostly black cast, and often used scripts from the old Amos & Andy radio show.
It ran from June 1951 to April 1953, was sponsored by the Blatz Brewing Company, and was very popular according to Nielsen ratings.

The show was widely repeated in syndicated reruns until 1966 when, in an unprecedented action for network television at that time, CBS finally gave in to pressure from the NAACP and the growing civil tights movement and withdrew the program.

in 2012, "Rejoice TV," a small independent television & Internet network in Houston, started airing the show weeknights on a regular, nationwide basis for the first time since CBS pulled the series from syndication in 1966.

[Stuart G]

56. You ain't that old...I remember watching...original eps of Amos and Andy...also

Original eps in 51 and 52 of another show....let's see..something called..."I love Lucy" yes
..Monday nights..................oops..........

[OxQQme]

25. The Soupy Sales Show

Season 1, Episode 1

[sl8]

26. One Toke Over the Line

"A modern spiritual"?

[stonecutter357]

28. 50 is the new 30 !

[rzemanfl]

31. Hit Parade. n/t

[Ohiogal]

34. I remember watching "All In The Family"....

Archie and Edith both seemed so OLD. A while back, I watched a rerun where Archie said he was 49! I was astonished!

[NBachers]

35. I remember Uncle Miltie, Jimmy Durante, John Cameron Swayze, and Froggy the Magic Gremlin

[Texasgal]

36. Hate to tell ya

but MTV is also OLD!

[left-of-center2012]

38. I'm so old ...

I remember my dad and older brothers going to an Eisenhower rally in the mid-1950s.

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. I remember hearing about the Eisenhower election results on shortwave radio.

So that had to have been in 1952...We lived near Ruby Beach on teh Washington state coast, real isolated area, only shortwave would get any reception and that came in and faded out.

Heard something called "The Grand Ole Oprey" on that radio, my Mom was real impressed it came thru, she told us it was being broadcast from somewhere "clear across the country".

[left-of-center2012]

46. In the 50s ...

I was about 10,
I could listen to the Eddy Arnold Show (country music) on the radio In rural Pa.

He also had a TV show, but I don't remember that.

[Atticus]

42. I nailed up campaign pole signs for Adlai Stevenson. nt

[Bayard]

47. My dad was a Lawrence Welk fan

But I would only watch Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and Ed Sullivan with him. We saw the Beatles debut together. Dad was scandalized.

My mom always watched the Porter Wagner Show with Dolly Parton.

[edbermac]

48. I'm so old we had no electricity.

We had to watch TV by candlelight.

[IggleDuer]

54. Without electricity, I had to open the refrigerator to read by the refrigerator light

[PJMcK]

49. I'm so old...

...there were only 48 stars on the flag when I was born.

[DFW]

50. I have fossils of animals that used to be my house pets.

I MISS saber-toothed tigers. They were cute (when they were little, anyway).

[rzemanfl]

51. I'm so old I learned the Pledge of Allegiance when it didn't refer to an imaginary being. n/t

[dhol82]

53. +1

[benld74]

55. When we finally got cable the

Weather Channel

Was a continuous radar image
With the radius going around
Refreshing the screen

STL blizzard of ‘82
Showed blue radar image
With wall of white descending from the NW
Next morning
Entire tv screen was white
With the radius still turning it’s cicle

😂