I grew up, as I said, in a struggling working-class family in a rural area. We actually got a television in 1950, I think. This made us one of the earlier people to get a television in our own home among Americans. There were televisions in some bars and restaurants before then, I think. After 1950, Americans quickly began buying televisions and the clear majority had them by 1960. I think we got a color television in the mid-1960s. Up to the point that I graduated from high school in 1970, I only went to movies a few times a year. It was too expensive for all our family to go to one any more often than that, since we had to drive a ways for it.