Great posts guys.

I also wanted to check how many people actually owned a TV set in 1950, and according to wikipedia 1950 is the year when the number of homes in the US that owned a TV set reached the 1 Million mark.

So then I checked the US population in 1950 and it says 151 millions.

That means that in the year 1950, there were less than 1 percent of americans who owned a TV set. That's practically nothing! or not? I mean 1 million houses with TV sets and 150 million houses without it. Did you have to be rich in order to own one?

Now I'll have to check the prices of TV sets back in 1950