Same look kids today get after a few minutes with an iPad.
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It’s interesting. Television hit the market in the late 1930s, but between the end of the Great Depression, World War II shutting down production, and consumers being slow to spend, it didn’t become common in homes until the mid to late 1950s. I feel like that’s a pretty significant span of time for such a revolutionary device. Then again, I don’t think anyone understood that it wouldn’t be a novelty and that it would become the most prominent means of spreading news, information, entertainment, and the most powerful marketing tool.
>The wonder of television drops jaw of Dickie Osborne, 8, who watches program on store window set. Glass reflects the image off TV screen.
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kid in a full suit with his hands in his pockets starin at a box. wild
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The end has begin
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My mom grew up in Puerto Rico and they got their first TV in 1957.
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If Dickie Osborne (85) is still alive, he has a TV in his pocket, the whole TV studio, and some other gadgets on top of that. Like, all of the knowledge of humankind, and all the music published since that evening in 1949.
I wonder how Dickie lived since then. There are no stories like real, life stories.
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I call shenanigans.
Same look kids today get after a few minutes with an iPad.
It’s interesting. Television hit the market in the late 1930s, but between the end of the Great Depression, World War II shutting down production, and consumers being slow to spend, it didn’t become common in homes until the mid to late 1950s. I feel like that’s a pretty significant span of time for such a revolutionary device. Then again, I don’t think anyone understood that it wouldn’t be a novelty and that it would become the most prominent means of spreading news, information, entertainment, and the most powerful marketing tool.
This photo appeared in the [May 2, 1949 issue of Life magazine in an article on the recently opened television station, WICU in Erie, PA.](https://books.google.com/books?id=hk4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q&f=false) At that time there were only 61 TV stations in the US.
This is the original caption in the magazine:
>The wonder of television drops jaw of Dickie Osborne, 8, who watches program on store window set. Glass reflects the image off TV screen.
kid in a full suit with his hands in his pockets starin at a box. wild
The end has begin
My mom grew up in Puerto Rico and they got their first TV in 1957.
If Dickie Osborne (85) is still alive, he has a TV in his pocket, the whole TV studio, and some other gadgets on top of that. Like, all of the knowledge of humankind, and all the music published since that evening in 1949.
I wonder how Dickie lived since then. There are no stories like real, life stories.
Kind of a stupid and obviously staged photo.
“I’ve got to get a second job.”
It’s my turn to post this next week