Subj : Done Right [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sun Aug 24 2025 04:33 pm
Hi Dave,
DD> Changes to television viewing came thick and fast in the 50s. My
DD> friend John's house got a first version colour TV that used a
DD> "whirling disk" for the colour.
RH> That must have made for some interesting looking people landscapes,
RH> etc. (G)
DD> Especially when the disc got out of sync.
Boggles the mind thinking about possible unintended consequences.
DD> It was, to me, pretty "monkey motion". By that time (1956) we had
DD> moved to the state capitol and had a 21" B&W TV. Cable was not yet a
DD> thing so we also had a 50' tower with a huge antenna and rotator. It
DD> pulled in stuff from 90 - 100 miles away.
RH> Dad ran a wire, with their OK, from I guess, an antenna wire, that
RH> neighbors had run to get tv. We lived (barely) within village limits
RH> but outside of town, proper (population of only about 800) and about 75
RH> miles from Albany, same (as the crow flies, more to actually drive)
RH> from Binghamton. Had the tv in time to see some of the Mercury space
RH> program and the JFK assasination & week end coverage. We'd just gotten
RH> home from church and Dad put the tv on again in time to see Jack Ruby
RH> shoot Oswald.
DD> I only aw that on "Film at 11" not live. I did see, live, the second
DD> plane strike the tower on 9/11. I had been hearing about the first on
We got a phone call from Steve's company commander right around 3 am (we
were in Hawaii) so turned on the bedroom tv in time to see the 2nd plane
hit. I'd read Tom Clancy's "Debt of Honor" not long before that so
immediately thought the worst. Anyway, that tv was turned off a few
hours later when I went downstairs and turned on the living room set.
That got turned off around 11 pm, turned back on the next morning. Since
access to military installations tightened down, a lot of Steve's co
workers couldn't get in; we lived on post so had no trouble. I'd baked
some sourdough bagels the day before; Steve took the box of them in so
people that did make it in would have something to eat while working
extra long shifts.
DD> the car radio on the way to work. So I put the babble box on a news
DD> channel rather than its usual Food Network. After watching the
second DD> plane do its thing I turned to my boss and said "We're at
war. I don't DD> know with who but that was an actof war." Turns out I
was right.
Basically the same thoughts we had. Unless you had your own boat or
wanted to swim, nobody could get on or off the island for several days.
We'd lived in Occupied Berlin so that didn't bother us.
DD> We were 90 miles away from the tower for the Champaign station (CBS)
DD> and 100 (or so) miles from St. Louis and the two stong enoough signals
DD> from there (NBC & CBS).
RH> I do remember, on school breaks, watching "The Galloping Gourmet"
RH> on the b&w set. Us kids always got a giggle out of his starting
RH> most recipies with "first you take a short slurp". He brought down
RH> the house and a quick cut to a commercial by starting one recipe
RH> with "first you RH> take a leek.............".
DD> Chirrun nearly always see the risque
RH> This was a case of the camera crew and the whole studio audience
RH> cracking up, and him too, as he realised what he'd said.
DD> There is a comix strip titled forwhat happend. One of my favoourites -
DD> "Non Sequiter".
I've read that one quite often.
DD> ... The steak was cheap and well done. I'm glad the knife was sharp.
RH> Sounds like the steaks my parents liked.
DD> Steak is pretty much out of my price range. Heck, hamburger (73% lean)
DD> is on sale this week at only U$2.99/lb. And bottom round steak is
DD> U$5.99/lb. Just a few years ago ground chuck (80% leans) was 99c/lb
DD> and top round (a much better cut of steak) was U$1.29.
We don't buy it very often any more either but do, every so often. Other
times we'll just head over to TR and walk away from the clean up. (G)
DD> Good thing I like pork and chicken. Bv)=
I'll have to post the recipe I got last week from AllRecipies--Pork
Tenderloin With Figs & Balsamic Glaze. Made it Friday night for supper;
it's a keeper. It makes enough for about 8 servings so we're going to
bag and freeze a couple of meals' worth.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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