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Article: Christmas in the Golden Age; Harking Back to When TV Heralded the Season
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 25, 1987
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Those who were young when television was young are likely to
romanticize TV's early years along with their own. In the '50s it
became a holiday tradition to gather around a television set as
families of previous years had gathered around fireplaces.
TV emitted a seasonal glow that had a warmth and intimacy now
gone. Nobody knew exactly what television was going to be then, and
so it tried to be everything-movies, Broadway, a concert hall, radio,
the funny papers and a playground for a child's imagination.
Much that was on TV was banal even then. But some of it was
legitimately magical, especially to young eyes, and especially around
the holidays, when TV added a few new traditions to ...