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I remember when I was a kid in the 90s my Grandmother still had one. I would use it sometimes. It was hard to get the channels to show on it, because the reception was terrible, and it was in black and white.
I broke it one day. My grandmother wasn’t happy.
My stepdad had one also, a later model though, which had different buttons on it and had radio built in also.
My father bought me one of those pocket handheld TVs in the 90s. I loved it. I always wonder if it would work now.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 19, 2021 4:56 PM |
[quote] My father bought me one of those pocket handheld TVs in the 90s.
I had one too in the early 90s. I used it at work to listen to TV. With TV now being on the internet, they have no more usefulness.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 19, 2021 2:33 PM |
For my graduation my parents gave me a little Sony portable. It was terrific. No one else had one. But I only had it for a few months before someone stole it out of my car. It was just too easy to steal.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 19, 2021 2:43 PM |
I had a little B&W 8" screen with rabbit ears that I'd watch Letterman on while in the tub. You didn't need cable to get network shows on a TV that small. And, of course, that's all over.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 19, 2021 3:14 PM |
My grandparents had one in the kitchen. I’d love to sit in there and watch Monty Python. My mom didn’t like me watching it at home. But my grandparents didn’t care. Once grandma watched it with me and cracked up because half of the cast was in drag. One of them was dressed up as Eartha Kitt. I thought that Grandma would pee herself.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 19, 2021 3:19 PM |
Our family didn't own a portable TV but Daddy did have a TV who he saw at different bars and motels.
So I guess you could say she was portable.
Certain porkable, too, from what Mama said at the divorce hearings.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 19, 2021 3:36 PM |
My family never owned a console TV but we had a console stereo.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 19, 2021 4:09 PM |
No, never had that.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 19, 2021 4:16 PM |
Mom won a small General Electric black & white portable in the 1970's from Sears. She had it on her night stand next to her bed, and it lasted into the 2000's before everything went digital. I have memories of coming home from work late at night and stopping by her room for a chat, and that little TV on.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 19, 2021 4:26 PM |
Yes indeed my grandfather had a Sony portable.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 19, 2021 4:34 PM |
Great post, r9.
Really great.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 19, 2021 4:52 PM |
We had a console and for when it would get broken (remember the days of getting things fixed by repair men rather than throwing it out?). The little tv would be places on top of the tv in ghetto style until the repairman could make it which always seemed like a big ordeal.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 19, 2021 4:56 PM |
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