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To: Dayuhan who wrote (36453)8/28/1999 11:09:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
I can remember our family's first television... one of the first on the block ....scary.

My mom didn't have electricity until she was in high school, which for her was in the 1930s. She grew up on a farm out in the wilds of west Texas. Kerosene lamps. Ice boxes instead of refrigerators. I think they did have telephone service, partyline of course.

She went to college at the Texas College of Mines, which is now UTEP. Lived with her aunt and uncle in El Paso. Her uncle used to get up well before dawn. One such morning there was an enormous flash of light to the west, from New Mexico, as if the sun was rising in the wrong direction. Let's see if Lather can guess what that was.
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