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Comments on Puzzle #35024: Old school late night view
By gregg licht (lgreg)

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Puzzle Description:

Waking up in the wee hours with the room lit by a color bar test pattern on an old VHF TV. Local stations would broadcast these after they went off the air.

#1: Belita (belita) on Apr 4, 2021 [SPOILER]

That's only if you had a color TV, which we didn't for a looong time.
#2: gregg licht (lgreg) on Apr 4, 2021 [SPOILER]
Same here, Belita. We never had a color TV as long as I lived at home...but back then they also had black and white test patterns. I would have included that pattern but I couldn't manage it in a small puzzle.
#3: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Apr 4, 2021 [SPOILER]
We too had black and white TV when I was a kid, long after most people had color. I'm still sometimes surprised by what colors things were, like the inside of the Brady Bunch house, or the way the Wizard of Oz changes from black and white to color.

I like the furniture-y corner to the TV in this picture. They don't make TVs like that anymore!
#4: Donna McFarland (Baby Jade) on Apr 4, 2021
This is exactly what I had growing up. I can remember when color came out and begging to go to my friends house to watch their color TV. It did not matter what you watched as long as it was in color.
#5: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Apr 5, 2021 [SPOILER]
I can remember when we got our first color TV, but not the year. :)
#6: Yonah Kondor (yokon965) on Apr 5, 2021 [SPOILER]
Before there were clickers, there was Yonah, e.g. "Yonah, get up and turn it to 8!"
https://www.automaticwasher.org/TD/AWJPEG/SANDBOX/2011/appliguy++1-11-2011-18-19-17.jpg
#7: gregg licht (lgreg) on Apr 5, 2021 [SPOILER]
Valerie, I was wondering what you meant by the furniture-y corner, but now I see the image could be seen two ways: one is looking at the TV head on with a fancy corner on the upper left. The other is a perspective view looking at the TV slightly from the left side, with the left side of the TV in darkness and the edge drawn in white. This would match with the shadow of the rabbit ears on the top surface.
#8: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Apr 5, 2021
Oh! I did not see it that way at all, but now it popped!

I thought of this thread this evening when my son Arlo turned on an episode of M*A*S*H from nearly fifty years ago, and I was amazed to find out that it was in color.
#9: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Apr 6, 2021
Very old memories.
#10: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 7, 2021
I remember the bw "indian head" test pattern.
#11: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 7, 2021
Our High Fi was a piece of furnature, but our TV set was more of a stand alone.
#12: Koreen (mom24plus) on Apr 8, 2021 [HINT]
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#13: Michael Eddy (meddy) on Apr 12, 2021 [SPOILER]
I remember the tone that went along with this waking me up on several occasions.
#14: Steven Paradise (gossamerica) on Apr 13, 2021
An easy solve, but excellent image!
#15: David R. Felton (drfelton) on Nov 28, 2023 [SPOILER]
I was in college before my parents bought a color TV. As noted above by others, it was shocking to see what colors looked like. It was also shocking, a few years later, when Sony came out with their first 'instant on' TV. Previously, there was the warm-up period before the tube warmed up and a picture came into view.

Unlike meddy, the test pattern tone was not usually what woke me up, if I fell asleep in front of the TV. It was the band playing "The Star Spangled Banner" which woke me up. It was like an early warning system: Get up now and turn off the TV before that infernal tone starts.

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