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      Cyberpope wrote --   
      
   > (We also had the yearly update volume from '68 til '80   
      
     We never had any updates.  It was the original 1948 or '50 books.   
      
   > Yup, we had the same, 3 or 4; likely a different set!    
      
     We had NBC, which went on the air here in 1948, CBS, which went on the   
   air in 1952, and ABC that went on the air in 1956.   
     At one time the NBC station also carried some CBS shows the first couple   
   of years.   
      
   > Got cable in our town in '78   
      
     My mother (a widow) and I got cable c. 1967 when we moved to a small town   
   in Colorado that was far from anything.  It consisted of like five channels   
   (NBC, CBS, ABC and two independents, from from Colorado Springs (where we   
   had lived for three years) and on   
     The cable company also a weather channel, where a camera merely panned   
   back and forth a series of screens with time, temp, forecast, etc.   
     Trinidad didn't have any tv until the cable arrived in 1966 and   
   departments stores (we had two) had signs in the window reading "We now sell   
   televisions!"    
      
   > 10(local)" or "number 10(ABC from Seattle); channel 10 moved to 13 with   
   cable & 10 was 4. . . (now ABC's on 2,   
      
     The cable company we had at one time did that a lot, shuffling local   
   stations around so Channel 3 would be on 4, etc.  Then after one learned where   
   the channels were actually on they did it again.     
     Like stores that move things all over the place and where you brought X   
   they were now selling Y and X was somewhere else.  I hate when they do that.    
   Its to keep people in the store longer hoping they will buy more.   
      
   > Aging puts everything into new perspectives, eh?   
      
     I like to joke that at my age nothing much surprises me any longer.   
      
   >  >   I guess I was around 10 at the time.  Had a ride to school then get   
   home on my own.   
      
   > Was it a city bus or dedicated schoolbus?   
      
     City bus.   
      
   > I get that; I did that when on Gryhound, going cross-country.   
      
     I generally traveled cross country (WV to CO and back to visit my mother   
   who was still in CO) on the train.  C&O (now CSX)to Cincinnati, connect to   
   the NY Central to Chicago, then the Santa Fe to CO.   
     I went on the bus just once, and that was enough.   
     I missed the through bus from Cincinnati to Denver, and had to take a   
   local to Trinidad.  That thing stopped at every wide spot in the road and if   
   someone flagged it down in the middle of nowhere, it stopped, day or night.   
     Pull into some diner and told "20 minute rest stop", order the food and   
   maybe it would be served at the 19 minute mark, then grab whatever one could   
   carry and run back to the bus.   
       
   > What year were you born? I'm only as far back as 1967.   
      
     I was born in 1950.   
     Joe   
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