TT: Lookback

From 2003:

I belong to the last generation to have grown up without VCRs. Born in 1956, I was raised in a small town that had one movie theater. The only "arty" films I saw in high school were 2001: A Space Odyssey and Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. The nearest public TV station was in St. Louis, just beyond the range of our rooftop antenna--this was before the invention of cable TV--so it wasn't until I left home to go to college that I saw any old movies other than an occasional Saturday-afternoon John Wayne....

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