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There was yet another service series that supplied basic schematics for the more popular consumer models manufactured from through the late s. These softcover manuals were published by Supreme Publications starting in the early s and are known as the Beitman's series after M. Beitman who complied the schematics from various manufacturers data. They usually contain a schematic and minimal service information.

Beitman published a radio series as well as a television series. For more information about vintage test equipment and components you can view some of my collection at StevesAntiqueTechnology. You must Sign in or Register to post a comment. Typical Rider's Troubleshooter service data. Looking for DataSheets? Gina Roos. Robots are all around us.

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To help out fellow collectors with their repairs we offer a schematics and circuit diagram service for old tube and early transistor TV sets and radios. This was one of the most interesting aspects of my research because normally we associate violent behaviors with violent catalysts.

However, these television shows negate that and provide a theory about non-violence leading to violence. This was an excellent source for me when I was writing this paper.

Both the film and the book transport you to the world of the s and allow you to better understand the mentality of the time period. The blue-collar ethos where the man seemed to be in control but in truth was regularly the butt of the jokes is excellently displayed in episodes of the short lived CBS series The Honeymooners.

He and Fred often make sexist remarks on their wives that were intended to be funny but still rub off in a cruel way. I liked how you wrote about Ward Cleaver and what his absence means in the show. Thank you Amanda! This is very important information. If divorce was more accessible and acceptable there would have been more singe family homes.

However, it would be difficult for women to support their families because there were less jobs for women at that time, and for a variety of reasons. There was of course as much domestic violence, incest and alcoholism during the 50s as is now. Now we have access to media and more help available to assist these situations. There was a big push for cocktail parties in the 50s and there was lost of drinking at home, at work and during lunch. Another item regarding life in the 50s many men died around 50 years of age, this could be due to the pressures they had trying to be the male role model.

And it benefitted the wife because then she could continue on without the abuse of the over masculine husband. I was watching an episode of Bewitched and was surprised at the way Darren treated Sam. She helped him with his work and he belittled her and said there was no way she could have come up with those advertising ideas.

She was only a woman and must have applied witchcraft to be so creative. Samatha took the lecture and was submissive and demure about it. These are the lessons that were taught in the 50s for gendering. Good thing we have it all worked out now. LOL Thank you for this article. Obviously, s popular culture is nowhere near as savvy on irony and self-reflection as our current one, but did more savvy viewers in the 50s watch Ward Cleaver and get the same idea?

I Love Lucy is a classic. It such a switch today from the loving father figures though exaggerated to the simple-minded, lazy fathers we see portrayed on television today. There are so few good male role models in our media, real or fictional.

In a time when fewer children are growing up without a father at home, this is an issue that needs to be addressed. Strictly because there are so many different types of homes these days.

Single parents are more common, and we live in a world where same-sex parents can exist as well. I used to watch The Honeymooners a lot, when it aired at nights or weekend mornings. As a young kid growing up, I watched countless hours of reruns of classic American television shows like I Love Lucy. I am thinking of Fahrenheit and its Guy Montag and Mildred relationship.

She stays at home, he is the heroic character. Might be a curious connection. Thank you for sharing your analysis! I believe that in order to end the perpetuation of harmful gender roles in the media we must first understand how and why they exist there at all.

I thought this article explored some really interesting characters and shows. There were so many television husbands who fit this rigid masculine ideal.

This applies to Ricky in I love Lucy to a lesser extent. How do these buffoon husbands fit in with your analysis? And though there may be a link between gender role stress and violence as there is between any stress and violence , what about the men who are perfectly comfortable being masculine and accepting a masculine role? That must have a had a huge effect on the way people viewed the reality of their society, considering how skewed TV presented real life back then. Great article. Interesting read with some very valid points.

Especially in popular sports culture. The hegemonic masculinity values have been entrenched in our society over decades and decades of media narratives. This was such an interesting article. I must admit I agree with all of the points although I did not notice so much the comedic role of Lucy in the workplace as a child perhaps because I often thought it was just comedic art as a part of establishing that gender role.

You shed some light on it for me although. I still like the show, but that saddens me quite a bit. The times I suppose. I tend to shy away from the other shows due to the gender roles being so blatantly obvious there is no limit to how irked I become watching Andy Griffith. I have done essays mostly on gender roles and femininity rather than the masculinity.

I wish I had thought to include media influence beyond advertisements. This was such a great read, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It seems even more unlikely when we consider all the social economical pressures and changes the country has experienced in the past say ten or fifteen years.

The use of drugs, a growing population of minorities and non minorities who [as the rich get richer] continue to make almost desperate efforts to educate their families and move up the social ladder against a myriad of social pressures that at times seems to be deliberately set to hold them back, the explosion of violence on TV today, the wild proliferation of violent movies and computer games that basically teach kids how to be violent which in effect lowers the threshold for acceptable behavior.

For my money, all these and several more I can think of have changed our culture today so dramatically in ways that those of us who grew up in the fifties could not have imagined. I could go on, but the article strikes me as an attempt to pick a decidedly unique and provocative topic and scrap around for references as vague as they may be in order to come up with a new idea and sound especially scholarly along the way.

Not buying the premise.. My view is the author of the article may want to look at those links to violence against women in relationship to old and long forgotten shows.

Shiss, thank you for your response, but I argue that you are misinterpreting what I wrote. I am not arguing that the television shows from the s are linked to violence against women today. I am actually arguing, with the help of recent scholarship and recent studies that have been done, that the television shows of the s may have contributed to violent behaviors in the men of the s.

Because they were inexpensive, diners were a popular spot for them. Diners continued evolving after World War II. Corners were "softened" and steel tubing and Naugahyde replaced expensive materials. Homemade diners began popping up, some even imitating the prefab diners that came before them. Costa Rica, Ecuador, Greece, Mexico, Poland, Romania — these are just a few of the countries where staff members come from.

Together they constitute a microcosm of the immigrant groups that continue to arrive in New York — who not only made the city what it was, but the best of what it is and could be.

In this photo, a waitress brings "Uranium Sundae" to a table. The sundae was named after Salt Lake City, Utah's booming uranium industry. By the mids, diners were officially a "thing. This photo of a lively diner in Times Square is pretty representative of what diners were like in New York in the '60s.

Even in the heart of the city, people flocked to them to socialize. This eatery in downtown Manhattan is still pretty crowded despite the fact that diners weren't the attraction they used to be by the time the '70s came around. Many diners across the country still had the look of a narrow dining or train car, such as this one, called Neal's Diner, back in the early '70s.

The Empire Diner has been a New York favorite since it opened in It was once known for being frequented by celebrities. As the '70s went on, diners started to be replaced by fast food restaurants that had cheaper, faster food. Many diners closed and few new ones opened.