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A Year of Vintage Cable Box!

09/07/201609/07/2016 LawlerD 0 Comments 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, A Christmas Story, Alfred Hitchcock, Alyssa Milano, Bob Clark, Brian De Palma, cable television, Cable TV, Carrie, David Bowie, David Lawler, David Naughton, Garry Marshall, Gene Wilder, horror movies, Jacqueline Bisset, midnight madness, Porkys, Rear Window, romantic comedy, Rope, Scarface, sex comedy, Swamp Thing, The Deep, The House Of God, The Hunger, The Man With Two Brains, The Osterman Weekend, The Woman in Red Vertigo Vintage Cable Bo, Wes Craven

“Our technology forces us to live mythically” Marshall McLuhan Cable television is a beautiful woman (or man, I suppose) who

Vintage Cable Box: “Porky’s”, 1981

09/01/201509/08/2015 LawlerD 0 Comments 1981, Bob Clark, Cable TV, comedy, Kim Cattrall, Porkys, sex comedies, Vintage Cable Box

“That … tallywhacker had a mole on it. And that mole is the key to it.” Our first cable box

Vintage Cable Box: “Easy Money”, 1983

08/31/201509/02/2015 LawlerD 0 Comments 1983, Back To School, Cable TV, Caddyshack, comedy, Easy Money, Joe Pesci, Rodney Dangerfield, Vintage Cable Box

“Work banishes those three great evils. Boredom, vice and poverty.” An eleven-year-old in the year of Our Lord, 1984. Hankins

Vintage Cable Box: “Swamp Thing”, 1982

08/31/201509/02/2015 LawlerD 0 Comments 1982, cable television, Cable TV, horror, Pay TV, Swamp Thing, Wes Craven

“Everything’s a dream when you’re alone.” Our first cable box was a non-descript metal contraption with a rotary dial