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| 1950's CBC test pattern |
Although we were the first house in our neighborhood to own
a television set, I know we weren't the first family in the city to own one because
my dad bought ours second-hand.
He seldom bought anything new.
The TV set, which sat on legs in the corner of the living
room, was a brown box with a window for the picture tube, no remote, no
buttons, only dials on the outside and tubes on the inside. Most of the time, if someone turned it
on, all they would get was a test pattern. We had the choice of one station; it was either the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) or nothing.
