i feel like rambling tonight, so i thought i post about memories of TV when i was a kid.
i grew up on a farm in kentucky, so i did all kinds of outdoor stuff all the time, but i also watched a heck of a lot of television. it was a big deal. i lived about 50 miles east of louisville and, i think, about 80-ish miles southwest of Cincinnati. because our house was on top of a hill, most of the time, we could pick up Cincinnati TV. we had an outside antenna and if you wanted to pick up louisville, you had to go outside and turn the "V" towards louisville and turn it towards cincinnati to the east when you wanted cincinnati TV. if it was cloudy and the wind was blowing out of the west, the cincinnati channels wouldn't come in too good.
louisville at the time had no ABC channel, so we watched channel 12 from cincinnati for ABC. the funny thing was, nobody else at my school had any idea of cincinnati television. they all lived too far away to pick it up. so at school, when i asked if anybody saw the adams family last night, no one had any idea what i was talking about. no one else saw the tarzan movie on sunday afternoon. and i don't think any of them ever saw "dark shadows". when i would talk about these shows, they all thought i was nuts, or making it up. They didn't even know who Skipper Ryle was!
then, about 1970, an awesome thing occured: Cincinnati added an independent station, WXIX, channel 19. it was a doggone revolution! so now i had tons more content than anybody!
then one fateful saturday night, i stayed home by myself while the rest of the family went to my uncle's country music show. about 9-ish, i tooled around over to channel 19 and found Scream-In with the Cool Ghoul. The Cool Ghoul was showing Dementia 13. the print of the movie was so dark you could barely watch the movie, but it had enough "horror vibe" i could sort of pick up on it. but on the commercial breaks, the cool ghoul would do his bits - it was corny, silly, pointless nonsense, exactly what an 11-year-old wanted.
i grew up on a farm in kentucky, so i did all kinds of outdoor stuff all the time, but i also watched a heck of a lot of television. it was a big deal. i lived about 50 miles east of louisville and, i think, about 80-ish miles southwest of Cincinnati. because our house was on top of a hill, most of the time, we could pick up Cincinnati TV. we had an outside antenna and if you wanted to pick up louisville, you had to go outside and turn the "V" towards louisville and turn it towards cincinnati to the east when you wanted cincinnati TV. if it was cloudy and the wind was blowing out of the west, the cincinnati channels wouldn't come in too good.
louisville at the time had no ABC channel, so we watched channel 12 from cincinnati for ABC. the funny thing was, nobody else at my school had any idea of cincinnati television. they all lived too far away to pick it up. so at school, when i asked if anybody saw the adams family last night, no one had any idea what i was talking about. no one else saw the tarzan movie on sunday afternoon. and i don't think any of them ever saw "dark shadows". when i would talk about these shows, they all thought i was nuts, or making it up. They didn't even know who Skipper Ryle was!
then, about 1970, an awesome thing occured: Cincinnati added an independent station, WXIX, channel 19. it was a doggone revolution! so now i had tons more content than anybody!
then one fateful saturday night, i stayed home by myself while the rest of the family went to my uncle's country music show. about 9-ish, i tooled around over to channel 19 and found Scream-In with the Cool Ghoul. The Cool Ghoul was showing Dementia 13. the print of the movie was so dark you could barely watch the movie, but it had enough "horror vibe" i could sort of pick up on it. but on the commercial breaks, the cool ghoul would do his bits - it was corny, silly, pointless nonsense, exactly what an 11-year-old wanted.
