terrible old days

Imagine this 

It's from the Age TV and Radio Guide 26 September 1963 p. 1. People had to actually have their television sets physically 'converted' to receive Channel 0. Sick. Channel 0 offered an enticement in the form of an exciting new test pattern transmission to get people converting now and avoiding the rush.

FFS! 

three irritations

Public Records Office today: (1) a man who was apparently unaware that his phone was on speaker. I said to the guy behind the counter, 'is someone in here talking really loudly with their phone on speaker?' and he said 'Yes. Libraries are changing'. (2) some old bitch yelling at the top of her not insubstantial voice all the details of her parents, where they lived, what they did, spelling every name out loud. I couldn't tell whether she was trying to explain something to a staff member, talking on the phone, or talking to herself. 

SLV: (3) I thought some young fool was listening to a lecture or something on a portable speaker but then I discovered she was just tolerating the noise of another young fool on the other side of the partition listening to his own voice speaking on a video he was watching on a screen ... or was it his twin I don't know what was going on! All I know is it was in a library, which is a place where people go to read and reading is hard and we shouldn't have to be distracted by people's fuckuppery! 

To calm us all down here are some images from the 1962 RIBA Journal I was looking at (OR TRYING TO)

happy fiftieth birthday wild life

 London Evening Standard 4 December 1971 p. 13

Los Angeles Times 'Calendar' section 12 December 1971 p. 56

Hartford Courant 18 December 1971 p. 14

Chicago Tribune 19 December 1971 'Arts & Fun' section p. 26