Television and movies when I was a child.

Televisions were not like they are today when I was small. No my first memory of a TV was of it being small, images in black and white, no color to the picture on the screen. Then one genius? Or a man with a really good gimmick invented the plastic sheet that you would place over your TV screen and it would make the images appear in color... nice thought but it did not work.. But this little black and white TV created in me an everlasting love of old black and white movies. Especially the ones that were favorites growing up... such as the Thin Man series, Charlie Chan movies and Mr.Motto. Of course there was Abbott and Costello as well. I do have a faint memory of the Howdy Dowdy show. Vivid memories of Roy Rodgers, Rin-Tin-Tin, (he was a dog),Lassie,(the dog that shaped my future for choosing canines) Fury (a horse), Flicker (another horse),and lots of different variety shows. I also remember Gary Grant movies, Jimmy Stewart movies... My brothers were into the cheesy monster movies that came out of Japan. As well as King Kong. Mighty Joe Young and other such horror movies, (the crawling eye and the "thing"). My dad liked to watch cowboy movies and war movies, I hated them both. I remember the Mickey Mouse Club, the Flintstones and the Bob Hope Christmas specials and the Jerry Lewis telethons. Also the Loretta Young show my mom thought she was so beautiful and I kind of remember Doris Day. There was the Red Skeleton Show and one I really liked for it was off the wall the Ernie Colfax show.. As I got older there was Star Trek, the man from UNCLE, I spy, Get Smart, the Monsters and the Addams Family. I very rarely as a child went to the movies in a theater... but we went to the drive-in movies at least twice a month weather permitting... I remember as a small child being placed in my PJ's and taken to the drive-in.... I also remember the bug spraying that went on each time. A large truck with a spray on the back would fog the entire area with these chemicals in every row!!! These are the same chemicals that were banned when I became a teenager as being highly toxic and deadly to people... maybe that is why I write so many blogs... sprayed to many times..:) My dad in his bar had a "state of the arts" TV for the time, it was a large screen projection TV. This was to draw men into the tavern to watch sporting events. My father took the TV out when the men started to watch to much TV and did not drink enough! He then placed a juke box, scuffle board table in the tavern. I loved the juke box, part of the deal my dad had with the man who leased the equipment, I was to receive on a weekly bases all the new 45's that were released. Hence I had some record collection as a kid. And of course I was given a portable record player, best of its time to listen to them on, in my playroom... I love music then and now. I wished I would have kept some of these records and especially the albums they are worth money, such ones like the original Beatles albums. Speaking of the Beatles I remember as a kid seeing them arrive on TV and then watching them on the Ed Sullivan show, I was not impressed. I was to young to remember Elvis Presley. I do remember the first Broadway show I was taken to it was Camelot, with Richard Burton, Juliet Andrews and Robert Goulet in the starring roles.