3/28/2024 0 Comments Lawrence welk youtubeThere were no satellite dishes in those days. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. We laughed with Lucy and Ethel, Danny Kaye, Danny Thomas, and Bob Hope and waited impatiently for a new episode of Roots, one of televisions early mini-series. There was also Queen for a Day and Art Linkletter’s House Party with Kids Say the Darnedest Things. Afternoon TV included soap operas, among them First Love, The Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and All My Children. There were family shows such as The Life of Riley, Father Knows Best, and All in the Family, westerns including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Paladin and Wagon Train and the General Electric Theatre for those who preferred movies. While a common complaint today is that there is nothing on TV, in the ’50’s ’60’s, and ’70’s it was a much different story. However, at the first opportunity, she replaced the red flowers with pink blooms and discarded the red plastic shade in favour of a pink parchment replacement, unwittingly creating the original Pink Panther. The lamp, which my mother hated with a passion, was placed atop our new TV where it remained for many years.
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