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The Night the World Turned Green It cost more than the family car payment, it took two men to carry it, and for the first week everyone on television looked slightly seasick. News for the America we remember The color television came into the house the way a piece of furniture does, not the way a gadget does. Two men carried it up the porch steps, walking sideways, arguing about the door frame. It was a console, which meant it was a wooden cabinet with legs and a cloth speaker grille, and once it was set against the wall it was never going to move again. You did not carry a television from room to room. The room was built around it. My father had been talking about it for the better part of a year. He priced it out at the appliance store downtown, went home, thought about it, went back, thought about it some more. This was a household where a new water heater required a family discussion. The set cost real money, the kind of money that gets compared out loud to a car payment, and buying it was a decision he made the way men made decisions then: slowly, and then all at once. The first thing anyone learns about a first color set is that the color is a lie CONTINUE READING → In a gold rush, sell shovels. Every SpaceX launch runs on parts from public companies trading far below the IPO hype. See the 3 picks our analyst named. Get the Free Report.   © 2026 Old Glory Report 1001 Cathedral St Baltimore, MD 21201, United States Unsubscribe Powered by beehiiv