Ed wrote --

 EV> I remember the story about the Plymouth automobile that had a Push-Button
 EV> Automatic Transmission.

  Chrysler Corp was the first with a push button transmission in the
mid-50s then Ford had it, then Nash and I think someone else.  But 10 years
later it was gone, for the most part.  I don't think GM ever did.
  My father brought a new '58 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser (it was huge, you
could raise a family in it) with push button transmission that gave him all
sorts of problems. I think that car spent more time in the dealers garage
than ours.  After two years he was tired of fooling with it and got a
Chevy.

 EV> The first TV Station in Louisville, Kentucky [WAVE-TV] began transmitting
 EV> programs on Thanksgiving Day, 1948.

  WSAZ, then channel 5, now 3, went on the air in October 1949.  They had
planned on going on the air in 1947 or '48 but the FCC, in their infinite
wisdom, held up a lot of broadcast licenses nation wide because so many
places wanted them.  Sometimes it was several years between issuing
licenses around the country.
   And WSAZ was powerful, there were reports it reached as far a Havana,
Cuba.  Not a very good picture and needed powerful antennas. Rabbit ears
wouldn't do it.

 EV> I was in the 2nd Grade of Elementary School when I saw a TV Show.
 EV> The TV Set was at a Beer Joint, the owner had mounted the TV Set near the
 EV> ceiling, in a corner of the Bar.

  I recall seeing colour tv for the first time c. 1957/58 when my folks and
I went too a cousin in the Detroit area.
  That was also in a bar.
  One had to pass through a bar to the family dining area and a colour set
was on a wall.  I remember Perry Como was on, wearing a red sweater,
sitting on a stool, singing "Letters, I get letters" as letters
and postcards floated down around him.
   Naturally I started begging and whining and doing other kid things to
try and convince my parents to buy one.
   Didn't work.
   (Side story.  When a little kid in the supermarket something would catch
my eye and my mother simply had to buy whatever it was and I would throw a
fit, laying on my stomach, kicking my feet, crying, etc.  She would just
calmly walk away pretending she had no idea who that brat was.  After a
minute I would look around and she was nowhere in sight and I felt like a
fool with people looking at me.  I think if more parents did that today
kids would grow up a bit faster).

 EV> Our first TV Set was a B&W Philco with a 12" Tube in it.

  I don't know what our first one was, but a table model with a tiny screen
I was told.
  The one I do remember was brought in 1951, an RCA console with a HUGE 12
inch round screen.  We had that one for over 10 years.

 EV> I remember watching "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" and
"Captain Video".

  KFO was one my favourite shows.
  As a little kid I was a bit confused (no cracks Daryl!, "was"?
I can hear you asking now) about time and distance.  I believed everything
on tv was live (a lot of it was) and it happened right here and how could
it be daylight on a tv show and dark out and dark when it was daylight?

  JM>>> .. I also always carry some hidden cash in my wallet.

 EV> Hmmm, when I read that in Your original message, I thought:
 EV> "he shouldn't ought to write that."

  Yeah, may need to re-think this...

 EV> But who am I to tell OUR MODERATOR anything such as that?

  Ya just did.  :)
  Joe