Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 4:58 PM -0500 5/3/09, Sonny Carter wrote: >I went to the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. > >They had a display with a copy of the Sputnik in the USSR Pavillion. They >also had a receiver that would pick up the beeps. > >In the American Pavillion, you could eat a real hamburger, (hard to get then >in Europe). > >I also saw my first Color TV broadcast in the NBC Studio; actually, I think >it was closed circuit. It was nice to be in air conditioning. > >-- >Regards, > >Sonny I had (have) some relatives in New York, on City Island. They had a colour tv set in 1957, and I remember one of my uncles lying in front of it twiddling with the controls, trying to get the colour balance within 50 units of acceptable. I don't remember him in any other position. I don't know how much it cost at that time, but they had lots of money. As I recall, tv seemed to be their life. -- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com