The Donlans, across the street, had a TV. Gladys and Lee, had a TV. We went across the street to watch TV.
There were kids shows in the late afternoon. Donnie and I watched those, with Jeff and Kathy, at Gladys and Lee's house. On Sunday nights we watched "The Toast of the Town" with Ed Sullivan at the Donlans house. No TV dinners over there either.
We were rather "old fashioned" in Marion. When it was dinner time we still sat around the table and talked to each other. We didn't have any TV trays in those days and the TV dinners were too hot to sit on your lap.
Of course "talking to each other" is a thing of the past. Only old folks "talk to each other". The kids only know how to "text" each other. And, of course, you can't get TV dinners anymore. The only thing they have at the store is "frozen dinners". I wonder why they don't call them "computer dinners"?
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For the record, for the family archives, I point out that by the time just Mother and I were living together in West Salem, we did indeed often eat TV dinners, on TV trays, in front of Walter Cronkite, at 5:30 p.m. I guess I just wasn't as interesting to talk to as the rest of y'all.
I learned that the first trays were made of pewter. Imagine--if we had save up all those pewter trays, they'd be worth a good deal today. Just goes to show, sometimes it pays to save things.
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