These interesting vintage photos show how people watched TV in the past.
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| Picketing workers watch TV in a tent outside the gates of a U.S. Steel plant in Gary, Indiana, during a strike in 1959 |
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| A boy watches TV in an appliance store window in 1948 |
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| An adopted Korean war orphan, Kang Koo Ri, watches television in his new home in Los Angeles in 1956 |
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| Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, watch the 1960 GOP convention in Chicago from their hotel suite |
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| A performing chimpanzee named Zippy watches TV in 1955 |
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| Die-hard New York Giants fans watch a football game on a motel TV, out of the range of the New York-area TV blackout during home games in December 1962 |
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| Men gather to watch TV through a store window in Pennsylvania in 1948 |
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| A group of swimmers at an indoor pool watch the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Jacob Malik, filibustering in the UN Security Council in 1950 |
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| Six-year-old girls use a "Winky Dink" drawing kit on their home TV screen as they watch the kids' program. |
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| The Kim Sisters — a Korean-born singing trio who had some success in the U.S. in the 1960s — watch television in Chicago in 1960 |
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| A traveling businessman watches TV in a hotel room in 1958 |
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| Milwaukee fans watch the 1957 World Series, when their Braves beat the Yankees in seven, behind three complete-game victories by the gutsy Lew Burdette |
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| Actress Diahann Carroll and journalist David Frost watch themselves on separate talk shows. Carroll and Frost were engaged for a while, but never married |
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| Watching a Western on TV in 1950 |
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| Grade school kids in Minneapolis watch a video "classroom lesson" on TV while the city's public schools are on strike in 1951 |
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| A railroad worker's family watches TV in a trailer at a camp for Southern Pacific employees in Utah in 1957 |
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| Tenant farmer Thomas B. Knox and his family watch Ed Sullivan and ventriloquist Rickie Layne on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958 |
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| A rapt audience in a Chicago bar watches the 1952 World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees. (The Yankees won) |
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| Astronaut Scott Carpenter's wife, Rene, and son, Marc, watch his 1962 orbital flight on TV. Carpenter's was NASA's second manned orbital flight, after John Glenn's, and lasted nearly five hours |
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| An awe-struck baseball fan is seized with utter delight as he watches the Braves win their first and only World Series while based in Milwaukee in 1957 |
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| A crowd watches John F. Kennedy address the nation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 |
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| Eventual VP candidate Lyndon Johnson watches TV during the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles |
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| Different CATV (Community Antenna Television) stations available to subscribers in Elmira, New York, in 1966 |
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| Writer Russell Finch enjoys a smoke, a bath and a TV show in 1948 |
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