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A simple Saturday night in a small alberta town

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I was just writting in another thread about a simple childhood memorry that still brings me comfort today when i reflect back on it...When i was a young boy growing up in a small alberta town,we only got one chanell(cbc) on our tv........my brother and i looked so forward to watching hockey night in canada every saturday night....After hockey we were sent to bed......Then my parents would watch the tommy hunter show.I remember laying in bed listening and trying hard to stay awake until it ended....I remember my brother tapping is foot on the top bunk to some songs,and it was only then i knew he was listening too...It was a good time on saturday nights back then......Any one else remember the Tommy Hunter Show


I am just wondering if any of you have any simple litte memorries that you are found of still to this day? If so and you feel like sharing,that would be great..
 
Saturday morning the cartoons were funny, black and white and violent. And yes we had to get up to change the channel because we had 2 channels here. Never missed hockey night in Canada right after our baths. :-)
 
Yep-- even I remember Tommy Hunter show-- as when TV first came out here we only got 1 US station and 1 Canadian...Dad wasn't much on the hockey-- but liked to watch baseball- except with a ND station you were limited to all Minnesota Twins games...
 
I remember the Tommy Hunter show very well, and Don Messer's Jubilee, Wayne & Schuster, and Razzle Dazzle.

I remember the family meetings to decide whether we went home from visiting Grandma early so we could get there in time for Bonanza, or whether we would watch it at her house before we left. A Sunday tradition.

Hockey Night in Canada meant we made popcorn on the stove, and then the four of us got to split a bottle of Coke. The glasses were all lined up on the counter, and there were four referees there to make sure they were all filled exactly the same.

Here's a quiz to see who's a real Canadian. (or should I say a real 'old' Canadian?) :wink:

Can you answer this question?

What kind of chair is in the middle?

If you need a hint, check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV2P6P4p6Hg
 
Wasn't the rocking chair in the middle. There was Ed Whalen Stampede Wrestling remember a 'malfunction at the junction'. Bugs Bunny and then hockey night in Canada.
 
Yup. "For someone who likes to rock, a rocking chair in the middle." :D :D

We didn't have Stampede Wrestling, but we did have the likes of Gene Kiniski, Bulldog Brown, and the Vachon Brothers. Only trouble was, it inspired big brothers to try out 'moves' on little sisters! :shock: :D :D :D Girls who grow up with brothers who are wrestling fans don't need to take self defense courses. They are quite capable of defending themselves already! :D :D :D :D :D
 
It was a Ring a ding dong dandy. No chancy Mr. Whalen. I got to see it live a few times. How about Buckshot and Mr. Dress Up. I did enjoy the Friendly Giant clips Kato.
 
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It was a Ring a ding dong dandy. No chancy Mr. Whalen. I got to see it live a few times. How about Buckshot and Mr. Dress Up. I did enjoy the Friendly Giant clips Kato.
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I met Mr Hito in the mall in Regina one day. :D
He looked kind small on TV but he was bigger in person.
 
The best horse I ever owned once belonged to Frenchie Champagne. A friend of his told me that one time Frenchie sold a pony to someone, and when it wouldn't jump up into the back of their truck, he picked up it's back end and lifted it in. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
My folks used to watch Ed Sullivan- but I never liked him much..They weren't as great of fans either after he had the Beatles on....

One show they always watched on the Williston station was Lawrence Welk....

"A-one, an-a-two" and "Wunnerful, Wunnerful!" :wink: :lol:
 
Saturday nights, Dad would make popcorn and my sister and I would watch Hockey Night in Canada with him. After that we would all watch Tommy Hunter. We lived in a small city so only two Chanels. Grandma had cable though, so we loved it when we traveled North for weekends once and a while and we could watch TV shows on the weekend like Solid Gold and Star Search..

Lawrence Welk was watched often, as well as Walt Disney at 6 pm every Sunday . I would watch the first 5 mins and if it was about wildlife and people, I would leave and go ride my tricycle , as when my dad asked me one time (so I was told) why I am not inside watching Disney I said "too many animals are killed on it ."

Great thread NN you brought back alot of great memories.
 
We got our first TV in 1953. Always had to watch the Gillete Friday night fights, the Lone Ranger and Loretta Young. No hockey night in a small town in Kansas
 
I did enjoy Walt Disney on Sunday nights. Other shows regardless of night were Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Starsky and Hutch, Three's Company, and a bunck of others I can't remember.

Gunsmoke was Dad's and my favourite.
 
Saturday night at my house consisted of Hee Haw...and I think the Waltons came on Saturday night as well. We did watch Bonanza ever tmie it was on....And of course Gun Smoke.

We had one of those huge big Zenith TV's that had a record player on one end, and a radio on the other with the TV in the middle. It had "remote" controll....but not one you held in your hands. It had a button on the front that you could push and it would go to the next channel. But that quit workin about the time I was big enough to know what it was...and then there was a knob on the back of the tv that you could change the channels with manually. It worked like that for a good 20 more years before the tube blew up. I remember that night as well.....smoke came out the back :shock:
 
We regularly watched the Sat. cartoons at a friend's house because my folks were the last on the street (it seemed) to get a TV.

A friend and I tried the cartoon mouse trick of jumping off the shed roof with an umbrella as a parachute. It didn't work. She got a trip to the doctor's from it. She emailed me this month and recalled that same incident which tickled me.
 

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