In the 1950’s and 60’s, the rotary telephone was communications central for homes across America.  Ours was black and weighed a whopping four pounds.  It had a six feet long cord anchored to a junction box. 

In the 1960s and 70s, you would have thought the onset of headaches had become a national crisis. Bayer®, Excedrin® and Anacin® were duking it out with a barrage of television ads.

In 1964, my brother Carl received a black and white portable tv as a Bar Mitzvah gift. One year later, it was appropriated for use in our kitchen to watch the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.