Sherlock Holmes museum - part 2/5 - The Living Room

[dieastra]

Part 1 - The Toilet - was here

Okay, one more ;) So, let's go inside:









This is the living room. Can't you see the two of them sitting there, reading the paper, or experimenting? Sitting by the fireplace, while outside it's stormy and rainy? (it seems it was always stormy and rainy in the books)

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[alumfelga.livejournal.com]

Back in the day, I had this old TV. We all thought it was broken but maybe it was just set on a constant live transmission from abroad? ;)

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

Like, Siberia? XD

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

You two are cracking me up ;)

We had two TV programmes in Eastern Germany. Then we got a third - the Czechoslovac TV. It looked exactly like that ;)

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

At your service, Ma'am. :3

Before 90s there were two programmes in Poland as well, and even before others came, they happened to look like this. It usually meant you needed to climb to the roof and turn the antenna... or unbend it after the last storm. *g*

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

We have a nice TV tower on a hill in Dresden: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Dresden_Fernsehturm.jpg/199px-Dresden_Fernsehturm.jpg

It used to be also that you could go up there for a nice view of the city but it is closed now :(

So, getting our own programmes was not the problem, but trying to get TV from Western Germany resulted also in all kinds of roof sports. Kids from today with all those satellite dishes and cable and streaming probably don't know what an antenna is!

Although I really wonder how we survived back then without a TV remote ;) Then again there was no sudden commercial which is so loud that you have to change the volume all the time, and channel hopping with only two channels is also not working... But actually getting up and turning a knob on the TV? Does anyone remember that? LOL

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

It used to be also that you could go up there for a nice view of the city but it is closed now :(
What I wanted to ask in the first thought... :(

Although I really wonder how we survived back then without a TV remote ;)
In Poland we say that kids served for this purpose back then. ;D

and channel hopping with only two channels is also not working...
There was an old Polish joke that in Soviets they had three. One - Comrade Brezhnev gives a speech. Second - Comrade Brezhnev gives a speech. Third - a little man wags a finger and says "I'll teach you switching, you there." ;)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

What I wanted to ask in the first thought... :(

It's still used for telephone stuff, so some people work up there, but where the café used to be, it's all taken out. I saw a documentary about it recently. There has been interest to re-open it but it has only a small elevator, and they would need a second way for people to get down in case of fire, and it is all expensive and they don't expect enough people to come visit to pay for it all.

In Poland we say that kids served for this purpose back then. ;D

LOL!

There was an old Polish joke that in Soviets they had three. One - Comrade Brezhnev gives a speech. Second - Comrade Brezhnev gives a speech. Third - a little man wags a finger and says "I'll teach you switching, you there." ;)

Hehe, that's a good one as well!

I remember when Brezhnev died. Instead of the usual children programme that sent us to sleep in the evening - the Sandman - we got boring classic music.

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

we got boring classic music.
At least it sent you to sleep even more efficiently. *g*