WWW. "So Fred's latest 'adventure' was buying himself a gift: a television set. But don't expect us to stop listening to radio just yet--we can't watch anything on it. All we get is a lot of black and white specks and static. The salesman tells us the set works perfectly with the antenna--we just have to wait until we get strong signals."--Excerpt from a greeting card, dated December 1955, found (without envelope) in a Shaker Heights, Ohio, home circa 1979

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