Ira, We had the first television set in Cartersville GA, and the antenna on a tall pole in the back yard, pointed at WAGA Atlanta, so we could see this new marvel, television, on our 7 inch Motorola Television screen! It had a big glass thing on traks in front of the screen, filled with something that loked like Windex, to magnify the picture. That was before fall of 1948, because I remember having it before I was hit by a car and laid up in front of it for most of a month! Most of the day it had a circular test patttern. I remember Leslie Uggams on the Paul Whitemen show, and of course, Tuesday nights at 8, Uncle Miltie and the Texaco Star theatre..... the only thing we were allowed to stay up and watch on school nights. I remember that little girl Kathy getting stuck in a well, out West somewhere and how it scared me to think of being stuck like that and all alone. I was born in 1941 and can recall pretty clearly back to about age 4, some thing earlier. Watching Mother color the oleo, sharing the Black pepper with other folks, (they divided with us several times before it became avaioable after The War.) When NEW cars became available again.. ... during The War, with daddy on leave from the Army (82nd Airborne Div) we had a flat on the way from Paris to Brownsville, and no spare.. and Daddy walked to a station to see what he could do to get me and my brother and mama off the side of the road. The man who owned the station did not have A TIRE or A TUBE for sale, but he did have an old Chevy salesman's coupe ( no back seat).. and the trunk was FULL of tires.. for sale. Daddy bought the car, and had the man mount one of the tires for our car to get us to my grandparents' house in B/ville. Then he struck a deal with my Papa Ben, to sell him the coupe for what he paid for it and they divided the extra tires...which got them both through The War. Papa Ben stil owned the Coupe when he died, in Oct 1948. Those were the days! Cacky