From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 06/02/2013 02:50 PM, Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   snip of sensible stuff   
   >   
   >          Old guy   
   >   
   > [1] College graduation party for a neighbor's son, and some of us   
   > older guests got into a minor discussion of television when we were   
   > young.  In my case, that was 1948 when WNHC in New Haven (CT) started   
   > broadcasting - we could also get the six channels from New York City,   
   > and one from Newark.   Choices!!!   But then we noted that there was   
   > really only a couple of choices for our radio serials listening...   
   > Didn't everyone listen to "The Lone Ranger", "Tom Mix and his Ralston   
   > Straight-Shooters", Roy Rogers, Gene Autry (at Melody Ranch)...  while   
   > the older kids were getting frightened out of their minds by "The   
   > Shadow", or "The Whistler".   
   >   
      
   	Ah no.  I was about  10 years old when I was listening to the Whistler,   
   the Shadow, Mr.District Attorney, and the Lone Ranger as well   
   as Superman, Jack Armstrong the All American Boy, Chandu the Magician   
   living on a farm I was cold to the charms of Gene Autry, Red Ryder with   
   the Duchess and Lil Beaver was interesting.  Red and his crew appeared   
   in comic books and some good stuff that taught you more about the world.   
      
   	But the Whistler and the Shadow were good shows that never bothered me   
   too much.  Learned to laugh like the Shadow and the Whistler   
   was hard to whistle.   
      
   	But not much frightened by the shows that frightened you say   
   older kids.   
   	TV is different because of the pictures that rigidify the   
   imagination which you had to use to imagine the characters in a   
   radio drama.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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