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I remember the great 1965 blackout very well! Was around 13 years old, and watching the Japanese film "Mothra" on ABC (channel 7 in the NYC metro area), and when the movie got to the part where the Japanese native girl twins where singing and chanting for Mothra to come out, the TV started acting very strange... (interesting coincidence) At first, I thought it was just a local TV station problem, but then noticed the other channels were going down, and then finally, no power at all. So I turned on the battery operated transistor radio, and could not believe my ears when I heard the way the music sounded... like a "modern" 45 rock n' roll single being played on an old worn out gramophone!!! The "wow and flutter" was really bad, like they were spinning the records by hand! Then very slowly, trickle by trickle, the full extent of the blackout became known... They even made a movie out of it about three years later, called "Where were You when the Lights Went Out", or something like that. Yogi |
