You had to point the antenna just right

The newspaper proclaimed that “all the wonders of science, except the atom bomb, have now been brought to Eunice” after Everett Vidrine installed a big antenna atop his West Laurel Street home in October 1950, “Residents of this fair city have all the push-button gadgets that their big city neighbors can boast. They even have television,” the newspaper reported. “Yes, you read it right ...

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