Here's what a 15" color TV looked like in the 1950s. Ours was different...a Raytheon brand (yes, they made TVs at one time)...in a blond cabinet with doors that shut in front. Three huge chassis with dozens of vacuum tubes. I think it cost $1k at the time, or about 1/10 of the annual salary of a top wage earner.
CBS had a color system which was mechanical....a big spinning wheel in front of the black and white picture, like a DLP projector. I did not know anybody who owned one and it only lasted a few years. CBS, if I recall (channel 2 in LA), was the last network to adopt the RCA standard color broadcast. ABC was earlier.
Oh, and channel 13 in LA was KLAC-TV in the **old** days.
We had a color TV (15" tube) in 1955. Replaced with an RCA 21" in 1960 or so. Only color shows in the early days on channel 4 in LA (KRCA at that time) were the evening news with George Putnam, sponsored by Alka Seltzer (color ads!!), the Steve Allen show, disney, Bonanza, the Rose Parade, and some other specials. Other shows were in black and white.
San Francisco is superior to 99% of the cities in the USA and Canada.
Weather is good. Food is good. Public transportation is the best in California. Women....well....the are lame by LA standards, but tops by most city's standards.
Been going there for 50 years. It is a nighmare to drive in (almost Bostonian) and worse to park. There have always been bums and dirt. There have always been hoards of tourists, too.
We docked our boat at Pier 39 every year since it opened for about 3 months annually and lived on it most weekends + other days.
San Francisco is a city of great restaurants, horrible drivers, fair shopping, and weather that most cities would sell their soul for.
Interesting shit about SF:
---at 3:30am, the streets are deserted....you can literally drive the wrong way on a one way street. Also, there are only 7 cop cars on patrol in the whole city at that hour. It is mystical.
---tourists get fucked over in SF. Cabs are expensive and unreliable. The famous tourist traps are shit. (Fisherman's warf??? FUCK ME! Chinatown?? FUCK YOU!)
---The best parts of the city are on the north and west.
And, they had to be played at such a high volume that the audio distortion was at least 25%. Crazy shit. Of course, the "music" was not degraded by the distortion.
House is up for sale, as of January 31st. It's a Larchmont tract home probably built in the 1960s. Cheap construction. < 1500 sq feet and they want > $330k for it.
Actually, outside of the Castro, SF is not an overtly gay city. 
