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My sister and me watching TV; College Station, Texas, September, 1961. Sure wish I knew what it was we were watching. The ghostly image is tantalizing but probably not clear enough for a guess. View full size.
I think this shows Dorothy Kilgallen and Bennett Cerf on What's My Line.
[Kilgallen and Cerf sat on opposite ends of the panel. -tterrace]
I agree it might be Sullivan. Odds are my mom is out of frame and she pretty much determined what was on the tube in the evenings...
It sure doesn't look like the kind of program that would enthrall two youngsters. No cartoons or cowboy movies in your town? No Little Rascals, Three Stooges or Mickey Mouse Club?
[The guy on the left, who's holding a microphone, looks sort of like Ed Sullivan. -tterrace]
Nice picture of the old style TV remote on the coffee table - "Johnny, go change the program to Channel 8."
Tough call: which was scratchier? The fabric covering the circular speaker at the bottom of that TV or the cloth on the sofas in the Minnesota Kodachromes?
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