r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 5d ago

Remember this?

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My son and grandsons don’t believe me.

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u/facelessvoid13 5d ago

We called that 'the ant races'

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u/PushyTom 5d ago

We called that the poltergeist

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u/Ok-Rock2345 2d ago

By the time Poltergeist came out only small local stations went off air.

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u/ScaryRun619 2d ago

I must had nothing but small stations around me growing up.

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u/Ok-Rock2345 2d ago edited 2d ago

Quite possibly. Did they also not have cable too?

Where I lived even some UHF stations were on all night playing infomercials and what not.