You Know That You are an Old Fart, When You Can Remember....

I remember listening to the Lone Ranger on WPCT in 1954, I was six. It came on at 7 pm on tuesdays if I remember correctly. It was my favorite show. The next year my parents got a TV and my radio days were over.

(1) Cinerama - what was that first movie with three projectors?

(2) Tinted plastic sheets (blue top, pink middle, green bottoms) that went on the black and white TV screen and once in a great while matched the picture to give the illusion of color.

(3) rabbit ears.

(4) The old-style National Enquirer.

(5) Scollay Square (I never made it).

dammit - screwed up the LR intro - "Thrilling days of yesteryear" How could I have forgotten that? - oh, yeah ... well, don't nobody say it, or I'll whack you with my cane ... soon as I remember where I put it :wink:

Fritz. the cat

What about Crusader Rabbit?

You got me there, Acquiunk. How 'bout Fearless fly and Atom Ant? oh, oh... Quick-draw McGraw?

I obviously watched too many cartoons as a child.

Kukla, Fran, and Ollie

A&W drive-ups were the only burger around

roller rinks on Friday night, Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon.

I remember Crusader Rabbit and his pal, Rags the tiger.

The Inner Sanctum radio show didn't frighten me, until they did the commercial. On it these loudly whispering voices chanted "Bromo Seltzer, Bromo Seltzer, Bromo Seltzer." I hid my head under the blanket.

Ted Mack's Amateur Hour

This is Cinerama, first shown New Years Eve 1952 at New York's Broadway Theater. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, it was more or less a typical Thomas travelogue juiced up by the Cinerama treatment. It toured the uplevel 1st run theater circuit throughout '53. Venues that had properly set up the special screen, the projectors and the multi-channel sound system did very well, and Cinrerama got good reviews - not all theaters "got it right", and not all reviews were good. For about a decade, Cinerama was mostly travelogue/show-off-the-process fare (including a Best Of Cinerama ), though it did reasonable box office. 1963 saw The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm", the first actual Cinerama scripted-and-acted movie, which did OK, and then the blockbuster How the West Was Won - Cinerama's first real Hollywood Spectacular, and still a good example of the genre.

Mmm, one of my uncles was treasurer of Cinerama, at least in the early days. This meant that my cousins and I got in free to see This is Cinerama.. I would have been eleven. Was that the one where the plane flew through the canyon? (Or I think it did..)

Thank you!

I LOVED Amateur Hour, J_B! And Red Skelton's show, too. Never missed 'em.

Yer weccum - and sorry I screwed up the italics up there ... oh, well ...

So who knows how the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet were related?

How about a chiller called "Alcoa Presents." I don't remember much except that one or two episodes actually did scare me!

username - there was something about the Reid family...