Earlier today my west coast brother informed me that today is "Color TV Day" celebrating the first color broadcast in 1951. Just reading that brought back a flood of memories about my relationship with television. My family didn't buy our first TV until 1956, when I was in 6th grade, and then it was a 13inch Zenith black and white table top model. We were obviously not the first in the neighborhood to get color TV. I don't think we were alone though. Color TV was still such a novelty for the next few years that one store advertised (on TV of course) that "when it's in color, Rarick's is open, on the corner of Spring and St. Mary's." If you grew up anywhere near Fort Wayne, I'm guessing you remember that ad. People used to walk into their store just to watch the few shows that were being broadcast in color. Continuing my life story, my husband and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary by buying our very first ever color TV. We bought it to watch the first moon walk. It was thrilling to watch, but if you recall that moon walk, you will remember that the moonscape was a vision in shades of gray. Happily. after that exciting but not very colorful occasion, we discovered that Saturday morning cartoons were beautiful in color. We were young then and didn't have children yet, so we could watch whatever we wanted. Our weekly favorites included 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' 'George of the Jungle.' 'Dudley Dooright,' and 'Mighty Mouse.' We never claimed to be sophisticated, but we did have fun.
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