August was the month our family traveled from Southern California non-stop to southern rural Oklahoma. This was our required annual summer motoring away from our East L A home. An obligatory trudge taken for the purpose of visiting our parent’s mother land. A trip with a promise of lake swimming, ice cold watermelon, greasy friedContinue reading “We did this because we were transplanted Okies.”
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Prehistoric Television.
It was our first TV from the early 1950s. A Sears Silvertone 12-inch black and white Television. It was, what they called, a ‘table top’ model. The picture tube was fitted in a two-foot square by two foot deep mahogany box sitting atop a wooden box frame with skinny mahogany wood legs. This television hadContinue reading “Prehistoric Television.”
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