Do you remember black and white tvs?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Not personally, although my family didn't have a color TV until about 1980. 

On a related note: when I was little, my family had an old RCA (color) TV that sat on the floor.  It had a big wooden box and a door with a dial on the side.  Instead of pushing a button to turn it on, though, you pulled a switch (I can still kind of remember the sound it made when you turned it on and off.)  It was pretty old when I was born, though, and it kicked the bucket years ago.  We kept it for a few years after that, though, but we finally put it out in front of our house to be taken to the junkyard.  (I kind of wish I could have salvaged some of the tubes for keepsakes, since it was probably old enough to run on them.)

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Not personally, although my family didn't have a color TV until about 1980. 

On a related note: when I was little, my family had an old RCA (color) TV that sat on the floor.  It had a big wooden box and a door with a dial on the side.  Instead of pushing a button to turn it on, though, you pulled a switch (I can still kind of remember the sound it made when you turned it on and off.)  It was pretty old when I was born, though, and it kicked the bucket years ago.  We kept it for a few years after that, though, but we finally put it out in front of our house to be taken to the junkyard.  (I kind of wish I could have salvaged some of the tubes for keepsakes, since it was probably old enough to run on them.)

Sounds like it was the sort of TV that could have been refurbished into furniture.  I have an old radio cabinet that my paternal grandfather refurbished into a small china cabinet and it's where I keep the portion of my maternal grandmother's china I inherited from my mother. (It was a twelve piece set split three ways among her daughters.  My mother also had two other twelve piece sets, one inherited from a her husband's aunt, and one they got when she wed my father.  Those sets went to other members of the family.  I only wanted four place settings, so it made sense for me to get my grandmother's china rather than split up one of the other two sets.)

My family generally doesn't do stuff like that.  If it stops working, they throw it away.  We'd been setting drinkng glasses and stuff like that on it anyway, though.