On Wednesdays all over the internet bloggers post a photo with no words to explain it. The idea is the photo says so much it doesn’t need a description.
Photo by Cheryl Andrews©
Other Wordless Wednesday Contributors:
On Wednesdays all over the internet bloggers post a photo with no words to explain it. The idea is the photo says so much it doesn’t need a description.
Photo by Cheryl Andrews©
Other Wordless Wednesday Contributors:
Cheryl Andrews 
14 comments
2 January 2014 at 7:36 pm
Allyson Latta
This brings back memories. What an interesting photo subject. Shows how just the right post-production can make such a difference — that snowy effect that mimicks the way channels too often looked with those rabbit ears. 🙂 I have vague memories of these — mostly of fiddling with them in frustrating to get them to just the right angle to work. I recall once finding that if my brother stood near them, the reception was better, so we bribed him to stand beside the set while watching TV.
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3 January 2014 at 9:35 am
Cheryl
🙂 Allyson! I remember being the ‘fiddler’ following my Dad’s instructions … then once reception got better, I had to ‘freeze’ and stay that way for the duration!
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1 January 2014 at 11:24 pm
Heart To Harp
A great blast from the past, and a wonderful depiction of said past with the b&w treatment. Ours always had aluminum foil flags trying to improve the reception of our two channels. Happy New Year, Cheryl!!!
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2 January 2014 at 5:56 pm
Cheryl
A Happy 2014 to you too, Janet! This blast from the past is still very ‘present day’ in my mother-in-laws house! 🙂
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1 January 2014 at 6:14 pm
Barbara Lambert
“Earth to Wordless Wednesday” calling…! I love this shot. (But, hey, you-all mean that is not how you watch TV these days? Ah well, I’m from the Okanagan; we’re genuinely retro here.)
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1 January 2014 at 6:49 pm
Cheryl
I just may go retro if satellite TV continues to be a frustration!
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1 January 2014 at 4:33 pm
Lucid Gypsy
So cool and retro!
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1 January 2014 at 6:48 pm
Cheryl
Thanks, Gilly. I found it in my mother-in-law’s house last week … intrigued and, of course, it triggered lots of delightful memories.
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1 January 2014 at 3:40 pm
carin
Ah, life was simple then… Now we have seventeen remotes and I can’t be bothered figuring out how any of them work. I love the black and white choice… and the graininess, so beautifully reminiscent of that occasional static, ‘snow’ — which, as I recall, never stopped us watching anything. Happy past, present and future!
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1 January 2014 at 3:48 pm
Cheryl
And, now we have 100’s of stations and very little of interest in the programs.
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1 January 2014 at 1:34 pm
Allison Howard
Cheryl, you managed to make an ordinary utilitarian piece of equipment into a sculpture in this photograph. So simple and evocative of days bygone but with your twist:).
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1 January 2014 at 2:25 pm
Cheryl
Thank you, Allison, you make me blush. Since we are kicking off 2014 with Wordless Wednesday I wanted an image about looking back and to the future and reason to embrace the present!
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1 January 2014 at 1:27 pm
rumpydog
Jen remembers those things! Happy new year!!!!!
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1 January 2014 at 2:22 pm
Cheryl
And a happy 2014 to you! I remember them too, often with tin foil wrapped around the tips when reception was bad.
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