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When I was little we had a table model black and white Zenith teevee with a whistle remote. But I remember it only having three buttons. One stepped the volume upward until it rolled around to quiet again, and the other /ka-chunked/ the channel knob rightward. One shut the power off. You still had to go to the teevee to switch it on. But maybe I remember it wrong. I remember for sure the smell of teevees and radios: dust, kitchen fat vapor and cigaret smoke film cooked on the hot vacuum tubes. It sounds gross to people now, but it's a comfort smell. It smells like Sherri Lewis and Lamb Chop, and Fireball XL-5, and Astro Boy, and Gigantor, and Zorro, and The Rifleman, and Sea Hunt, and Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits, and my grandfather.
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