If I had to pick one of the best things that has been developed over the years, I would choose the television set. To be able to see things up close and so fast....we would hear things on the radio, but it would typically be several days later, and now! You hear and see things instantaneously!
Growing up I listened to shows such as The Green Hornet and The Lone Ranger. I'd lie on the floor and listen, looking forward to these shows each week. When I was about 15 we got our first TV. We were one of the last families among my friends to get one. We only received a few stations, nothing like what we have today, but we thought it was pretty amazing. When the Korean War started, it was very different from WWII because we were seeing things unfold on the TV set.
While other technological evolutions were amazing, like the washing machine and cell phone, the change in furnaces was another advance that I distinctly remember. Previous to our modern furnace, the coal man would deliver the coal, emptying it down a chute into a coal bin in the basement. We couldn't let the fire in the furnace go out, so we always had to go down and check it. In the night, we would bank the coal, to keep it burning and warm, but not at a high degree, until morning, when we'd add more coal. We had to clean out the ashes and take them out on garbage day. It was a lot of work, and it wasn't until we moved to the house on Puritan Rd. that we finally had a furnace that didn't need to be continually checked.
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