Media Through the Years

A similar TV to the first one in Linda's house. Source:  http://www.tvhistory.tv/ 1950-59-PHILCO From advertising media, we then moved on to TV and cable media. I assumed that Linda and her family would not have a TV in the house until Linda was older because they lived outside of Macon on a farm. However, this was not the case. Linda's family first got a television in 1952 when Linda was four years old. It was a 21 inch TV in black and white that the family would watch altogether. Linda recalled that the TV would not be turned on until after dinner and homework was done. A tradition that she carried over with her own daughter. The family would watch the national news each night and "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Sundays. Some of her favorite shows were "I Love Lucy", "Gun Smoke", and "The Beverly Hillbillies". "'Beverly Hillbillies' was one of my favorites because I got tickled by my Grandma becuause she thought [t...

When my grandmother and I started our interviews back up we began by discussing advertising media that she remembered from her childhood. Growing up in Macon, there were a few staple advertisements that she immediately recalled. Her first thought was Lolli's Sale Barn that had large paintings on the side of the buildings to advertise the auction lot. Lolli's is hard to miss, being right off of 63, and the barn painting was something that not only Linda could recall, but myself and my sister as well. We remembered Lolli's not from driving through recently to go to Kirksville, but from when we were young and drove by on the way to Grandma and Grandpa's house in Macon. The large advertisement has engraved itself and Lolli's into the minds of multiple generations of my family, making the barn painting an effective form of advertisement. Lolli's Sale Barn from the 1950's Source:  http://www.lollibros.com/about-us/history The next advertisement ...