I remember the tanning blankets and I do remember the arial thingys I just always called them rabbit ears! I didn't know what it was! I remember when we had a state of the art antennae on the roof. There was a dial on the tv and your could turn it n/s/e/w and it would (in some magical fashion) move the antennae on the roof instead of just pulling the rabbit ears right or left or covering them aluminum foil.

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