Television was coming in, too, but not every home had one. Round picture tubes. Programs usually started broadcasting at about three o'clock in the afternoon with a test pattern that ran for a few hours and showed a few shows broadcast out of New York or Hollywood and then went off at around seven or eight.
There wasn't much to watch... Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, the Cisco Kid, Lucy and her Cuban bandleader husband, Desi, the Father Knows Best family, where everybody's always dressed up even in their own house. It wasn't like in the big city, where there was a lot more happening on TV. We didn't get American Bandstand or anything like that.