Memories of This World
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Comment from Elizabeth Emerald
A panoramic tour de force! This brings me back--I remember every one of these programs--masterfully woven through this gripping narrative. Fine work!
typos:
Adams=>Addams
Partidge's and Brady's=>Partridges and Bradys
coco for coco puffs=>cukoo for Cocoa Puffs
reply by the author on 30-Jan-2021
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A panoramic tour de force! This brings me back--I remember every one of these programs--masterfully woven through this gripping narrative. Fine work!
typos:
Adams=>Addams
Partidge's and Brady's=>Partridges and Bradys
coco for coco puffs=>cukoo for Cocoa Puffs
Comment Written 30-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 30-Jan-2021
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Thanks so much my friend for the compliments and I am glad you enjoyed this little piece and that it brought back memories for you. I am flattered by your support, and glad the writing was so evocative. You might like several of these in this series. estory
Comment from DonandVicki
Your story combined with your authors notes make a very good fictional essay. We all grew up with Television and now we complain about the children being consumed by the computer, What's the difference.
reply by the author on 30-Jan-2021
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Your story combined with your authors notes make a very good fictional essay. We all grew up with Television and now we complain about the children being consumed by the computer, What's the difference.
Comment Written 29-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 30-Jan-2021
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Thanks so much for the excellent review and your interesting perspective on the piece. I think you kind of got what I was trying to say; for good or ill, TV has shaped much of our sense of relationships and our experience of this world. I don't know if TV was a great substitute for engagement with our real families. But it happened, and we are living with the consequences. estory
Comment from RetroStarfish
Wow. This piece really made me smile and remember my childhood so vividly. You've captured not just the memories, but how the things we saw on that little black and white box became intertwined with our own lives.
"Over the years we watched Laura Ingalls and John Boy Walton grow up as if they were our distant cousins."
Also, as important as what we watched, was what we ate. This detail puts me right there in the room watching baseball with you and your grandmother: "... sipping Tahitian Treat sodas and eating Cracker Jacks..."
Now for my memories. After the Sonny and Cher show ended on Saturday nights, our local station broadcast this message: "It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?" My brother and I would laugh every time. Our parents were often out on Saturday nights but felt save leaving us (10 & 11 years old) alone because our grandmother was on the other side of the Kitchen door.
One day, when I was just a few years older, my dear, sweet grandmother knocked to home over to our side of the house. She was distraught and told me that she just found out Mr. and Mrs. Brady were not married in 'real life.' She was upset because she'd been watching them get into bed together every week. I assured her that they were actors and that they didn't really sleep together. "But I've seen her in her night gown!" my grandmother wailed.
Your story has brought back so many memories. Thank you for sharing.
reply by the author on 29-Jan-2021
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Wow. This piece really made me smile and remember my childhood so vividly. You've captured not just the memories, but how the things we saw on that little black and white box became intertwined with our own lives.
"Over the years we watched Laura Ingalls and John Boy Walton grow up as if they were our distant cousins."
Also, as important as what we watched, was what we ate. This detail puts me right there in the room watching baseball with you and your grandmother: "... sipping Tahitian Treat sodas and eating Cracker Jacks..."
Now for my memories. After the Sonny and Cher show ended on Saturday nights, our local station broadcast this message: "It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?" My brother and I would laugh every time. Our parents were often out on Saturday nights but felt save leaving us (10 & 11 years old) alone because our grandmother was on the other side of the Kitchen door.
One day, when I was just a few years older, my dear, sweet grandmother knocked to home over to our side of the house. She was distraught and told me that she just found out Mr. and Mrs. Brady were not married in 'real life.' She was upset because she'd been watching them get into bed together every week. I assured her that they were actors and that they didn't really sleep together. "But I've seen her in her night gown!" my grandmother wailed.
Your story has brought back so many memories. Thank you for sharing.
Comment Written 29-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 29-Jan-2021
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Thanks so much for the excellent review and for the interesting perspective on the essay. I love hearing of all these experiences and memories across the spectrum of readers that these images of watching these old tv shows can conjure up. This is what I am after; bringing all these experiences together under this one roof. Wonderful to hear of your grandmother and her perception of the Bradys. estory
Comment from Lyn Peters
Thank you, ESTORY, for taking my hand and walking me back down memory lane. I so enjoyed revisiting the cartoons of my youth and the much favored TV programs of my youth. I recall snatching the TV Guide from the Sunday paper and eagerly reading it, cover to cover, committing times and channels to memory (though, there were so few channels to watch, back then, that the mind wasn't much taxed by the task). I've become a fan, and will look forward to future submissions. Be well.
reply by the author on 29-Jan-2021
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Thank you, ESTORY, for taking my hand and walking me back down memory lane. I so enjoyed revisiting the cartoons of my youth and the much favored TV programs of my youth. I recall snatching the TV Guide from the Sunday paper and eagerly reading it, cover to cover, committing times and channels to memory (though, there were so few channels to watch, back then, that the mind wasn't much taxed by the task). I've become a fan, and will look forward to future submissions. Be well.
Comment Written 29-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 29-Jan-2021
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Thanks so much for the excellent review and your interesting perspective on the poem. I am glad you enjoyed that trip down memory lane; I think what I wanted to capture was something of this shared experience we all had, watching these same programs in different places, in different situations. Also something of the sense of how television, for good or bad, shaped our sense of relationships and the experience of life. There will be several chapters like this in Memories, looking back at the way of life we lived in the sixties and seventies. estory
Comment from Jasmine Girl
We bought a small nice-inch black and white TV when I was seventeen, before I went to college. Many of our neighbors would come to our home and we would it together. One of shows I remember was a Japanese movie in which the main character was a beautiful reporter.
I hope you will talk more about the reaction of your siblings to these events.
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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We bought a small nice-inch black and white TV when I was seventeen, before I went to college. Many of our neighbors would come to our home and we would it together. One of shows I remember was a Japanese movie in which the main character was a beautiful reporter.
I hope you will talk more about the reaction of your siblings to these events.
Comment Written 27-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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Thanks so much for the excellent review and your perspective on the story. It's always interesting to hear the memories of people you never met, connected through these commonly images. TV was such a big part of our lives, growing up, almost like another family member. My favorite Japanese movie is Akira Kurasawa's Dreams. He was the master of Japanese cinema. I wonder what show you watched. estory
Comment from thaities, Rebecca V.
You have done a marvelous job writing about television. You brought back all those good homegrown memories of the beginnings with television in our home. Well done!
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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You have done a marvelous job writing about television. You brought back all those good homegrown memories of the beginnings with television in our home. Well done!
Comment Written 27-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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Thanks so much for the excellent review and I am glad the piece brought back those memories for you. But I was also hoping that it would make people think how much TV shaped their sense of the world, of relationships, of experience itself. estory
Comment from Iza Deleanu
The Vietnam war and its horror, that's where the post traumatic stress was born, Luther King and it's discourse with - I have a dream all transferred on a screen. Thank you for sharing and good luck with your writings.
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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The Vietnam war and its horror, that's where the post traumatic stress was born, Luther King and it's discourse with - I have a dream all transferred on a screen. Thank you for sharing and good luck with your writings.
Comment Written 26-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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Thanks for the excellent review and these little memories the piece brought back to life for you. That's part of what I was hoping for. To show how much we collectively shared through TV through all this time. Also how much TV shaped our sense of the world, and relationships. estory
Comment from amada
It was great to read this story about television in your early years. I used to love TV especially in those days when the kids were small. At home, and I front of the TV set, it was a safe place to hold them, while fixing dinner. Grea memories, I grew up with a radio, long time ago; maybe some day I will write about it.
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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It was great to read this story about television in your early years. I used to love TV especially in those days when the kids were small. At home, and I front of the TV set, it was a safe place to hold them, while fixing dinner. Grea memories, I grew up with a radio, long time ago; maybe some day I will write about it.
Comment Written 26-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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Thanks for the excellent review and your interesting perspective on the piece. I would love to hear of those old radio shows. I used to listen to a swing jazz program from New London, Connecticut, with my mom when I was around 13. Part of what I wanted to capture in this piece was how many of these little precious moments were created by TV in our lives. estory
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Thank you for your radio memories; maybe someday I will write something about the radio times with my father. I am courting my muse.
Comment from Ulla
Hi estory, you certainly stir up old memories in this wonderful essay about getting exposed to the first paces of the media. Now, I grew up in Europe, Denmark, and I vividly remember when the first TV was bought in 1956. I was four at the time, but the Hungarian Crisis still stands out. And so much more. Great writing, which I enjoyed. Ulla:)))
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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Hi estory, you certainly stir up old memories in this wonderful essay about getting exposed to the first paces of the media. Now, I grew up in Europe, Denmark, and I vividly remember when the first TV was bought in 1956. I was four at the time, but the Hungarian Crisis still stands out. And so much more. Great writing, which I enjoyed. Ulla:)))
Comment Written 26-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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Thanks for the excellent review and your interesting perspective on the piece. Its always great to hear something specific in your life that the story brought back to life. Of course I remember that time in Budapest, also the Prague spring. But for us that big thing was Vietnam, maybe because one of my cousins went into the air force at that time. I love hearing about all these things in our lives that we somehow shared over this common medium, all around the world. estory
Comment from AnnieDawn
Reading this story was amazing. You put in so much detail and it drew my life right out of mothballs. What I found that I realized when I finished your story was how much that the 'tube' replaced the lack of family interaction and filled the lonely hours in some lives. For some kids, the tv and the great outdoors were all they had growing up. Thanks for the memories.
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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Reading this story was amazing. You put in so much detail and it drew my life right out of mothballs. What I found that I realized when I finished your story was how much that the 'tube' replaced the lack of family interaction and filled the lonely hours in some lives. For some kids, the tv and the great outdoors were all they had growing up. Thanks for the memories.
Comment Written 26-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 28-Jan-2021
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Thanks for the excellent review and your comments really dug into something I hoped people would pick up on here; but so far you are the only one. Namely, how much TV became a part of family life, for good, or ill. These artificial families, like the Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family, superimposed themselves onto our own families, and our sense of relationships was greatly influenced, I think, by those simple comic shows. I can't think of the sixties without them now. estory
