My mom said that her family got their first TV when she was 13 in 1953.  She said the brand of it was ARVIN:

The first "color" TV I ever saw was one day when my mother and I were visiting church friends.  They had a piece of Saran Wrap stuck to the screen.  It had the gradient colors of the rainbow from top to bottom, so the people might have had a yellow scalp, green hair, a blue face, a purple neck, and a red shoulder or body.

Does anybody remember the show in which you put a transparent piece of (plastic?) over your TV screen on Saturday mornings.  You had to order it from the show, along with a special pen. When they put the "mystery" dot-to-dot thing up, you had to follow the numbers visible through the transparent plastic to guess what the mystery item was.  What was the name of that show?

I remember the friends that use to gather at each other's houses to play cards and enjoy each other's company.  Then the first B & W TV.  Gradually people began to stay at home and watch TV.  After all there was no way to tape anything then.  We were not the first to get a color TV but the neighbors invited us over to watch the Rose Bowl Parade.  Quite impressive for those days.

Oh, yes!  In 1970 when I was 12 my parents bought their first new car.  It was one of the first Ford Pintos.  One year later they bought their first color TV.  It was a vertical Curtis Mathis.  Both the Ford Pinto and Curtis Mathis "bit the dust" many years ago.

You're welcome. 

Barb

That's right. Thanks

Mike

I just looked it up and it was the Circle H. 

I remember a later season of Spin and Marty when there was a girl's dude ranch nearby. Can't remember the name of that ranch. Can you? I remember Annette was in that series. Too bad that she can no longer speak due to her MS.

Mike