Ditto: the Simon Rodia Towers, in Watts. BUT
Remember - this omnipresence of The Tube began {many studiers of lemming activity have suggested} on the weekend of 11/22/63. And when the {then chastened} blabbermouths most uncharacteristically Shut Up for many-minutes at a time: no other medium could have sufficed for expressing the consequences of those 6 seconds. Unprecedented, that weekend --> Monday funeral.
You would have *bought* a Tee Vee that weekend! (even if you put it back in the closet, as many still do) afterwards, only trotting it out for the odd Occasion.
Besides, radio was (IMhO) in many ways a more mesmerizing medium, not the passive take-in-predigested scenario of video. You had to Add-in your imagination Always! even if you were merely idling the brain with the countless Soaps; banality for the banal. I still opine that 'mysteries' play far better (with decent writing, natch) sound-only - than the now tawdry, predictable, too-slick increasingly Violent cgi bloodbaths, now presented as 'entertainment' and gulped down by the Big Gulp (majority?)
Yup, the Medium IS the Massage, but - on rare (even rarer today) occasion it actually has Content.
Keep it in the
Ashton,
progressive Luddite
