Keeping Life In Perspective
Did you ever find yourself wishing you could relive or return to a place you've visited and the list goes on? Well, there's a name for that feeling or state of mind. It's called NOSTALGIA. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary gives two definitions for Nostalgia. One is "the state of being homesick, " the other is "a wistful or excessively sentimental sometimes abnormal yearning for the return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition."
The point of all this is that while pondering what to design next for our web site, TheChandlerTimes I slipped into one of those Nostalgic states.
I found myself remembering the first television (a Philco) that my mom and dad purchased in 1952 (yes. the date is correct) and my brother Bert and I watching shows like, Deputy Dog, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw Mcgraw, Popeye, Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, The Hardy Boys, The Lone Ranger, Roy Rodgers, Gene Autry, Lassie, Ozzie and Harriet and The Waltons. As for sports, there was, Friday Night Boxing, our dad loved that, the Cincinnati Reds and the Cleveland Browns.
Well, so much for my short lapse into Nostalgia. Not only did it bring back memories of fun times, it gave me a design idea for this page. It even caused me to call my brother several times and reminisce about those shows. He's really a great TV trivia buff.
The Rest of the Story
Believe it or not the television in the movie is the actual Philco television. Prior to June of 2009, when every thing went from analog to digital, it would still pick up three channels. It will still come on but all you get is a snowy picture. So now it sets quietly in our mothers basement as clean and scratch free as the day it was purchased. Really.
Did I say it sets quietly? Well, thanks to a "Nostalgic Moment," some fancy design software, a computer and a picture of the TV I took several years ago, I decided to give it life again. So as Ed Sullivan would say, "all the way from (Ohio) mom's basement, here's that old PHILCO TV, featuring Elton John from 1973 singing, Roy Rodgers Is Riding Tonight."
A Final Thought on Keeping Life In Perspective
When you lapse into the state of Nostalgia try not to linger there very long, because the future is always trying to make way for what will soon be another exciting memory. This will be one of those memories for us here at The ChandlerTimes.
ENJOY THE PRESENT, LOOK FORWARD TOO TOMORROW....AND LOOK BACK ON IT ALL THRU NOSTAGLIA!!!
