Subj : Re: Teaching
To   : GEORGE POPE
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Tue Nov 23 2021 08:37:30

   Cyberpope wrote --

> (We also had the yearly update volume from '68 til '80

  We never had any updates.  It was the original 1948 or '50 books.

> Yup, we had the same, 3 or 4; likely a different set! 

  We had NBC, which went on the air here in 1948, CBS, which went on the
air in 1952, and ABC that went on the air in 1956.
  At one time the NBC station also carried some CBS shows the first couple
of years.

> Got cable in our town in '78

  My mother (a widow) and I got cable c. 1967 when we moved to a small town
in Colorado that was far from anything.  It consisted of like five channels
(NBC, CBS, ABC and two independents, from from Colorado Springs (where we
had lived for three years) and on
  The cable company also a weather channel, where a camera merely panned
back and forth a series of screens with time, temp, forecast, etc.
  Trinidad didn't have any tv until the cable arrived in 1966 and
departments stores (we had two) had signs in the window reading "We now sell
televisions!" 

> 10(local)" or "number 10(ABC from Seattle); channel 10 moved to 13 with cable & 10 was 4. . . (now ABC's on 2,

  The cable company we had at one time did that a lot, shuffling local
stations around so Channel 3 would be on 4, etc.  Then after one learned where
the channels were actually on they did it again.  
  Like stores that move things all over the place and where you brought X
they were now selling Y and X was somewhere else.  I hate when they do that. 
Its to keep people in the store longer hoping they will buy more.

> Aging puts everything into new perspectives, eh?

  I like to joke that at my age nothing much surprises me any longer.

>  >   I guess I was around 10 at the time.  Had a ride to school then get home on my own.

> Was it a city bus or dedicated schoolbus?

  City bus.

> I get that; I did that when on Gryhound, going cross-country.

  I generally traveled cross country (WV to CO and back to visit my mother
who was still in CO) on the train.  C&O (now CSX)to Cincinnati, connect to
the NY Central to Chicago, then the Santa Fe to CO.
  I went on the bus just once, and that was enough.
  I missed the through bus from Cincinnati to Denver, and had to take a
local to Trinidad.  That thing stopped at every wide spot in the road and if
someone flagged it down in the middle of nowhere, it stopped, day or night.
  Pull into some diner and told "20 minute rest stop", order the food and
maybe it would be served at the 19 minute mark, then grab whatever one could
carry and run back to the bus.
 
> What year were you born? I'm only as far back as 1967.

  I was born in 1950.
  Joe
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