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Old 10th Jul 2017, 6:36 am   #78
Johnbarn
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Default Re: Why did folk always unplug the telly at night?

Oh yes Bill, I well remember my aunt having a tea-towel draped over the screen, held in place by two ornaments on top of the set! And you always had to wait til the wee dot in the centre of the screen faded before you put the tea towel down. I'd forgotten about that til I read your post. When commercial TVs started the same lady firmly refused to allow anyone to change channel because it would "wear out the switch" so she stayed with BBC til she got hooked on "Coronation Stree"t after living with us for a month to recover from an operation! Actually those clunky turret tuners were very solid to turn and you could imagine the grating of all the contacts inside. Perhaps that's what worried her. Those were simpler days. John
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