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I lived at 86th and 1st in Manhattan for a year and it wasn't until right before I moved back to Chicagoland that I had been looking at the Jefferson's building from the gym almost every day. I went looking for the Drummond building right away, why didn't I think about the George's building, a block over from em, sooner!?

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Wow! It's funny, I first noticed it years ago and said, hmmm, that looks like the Jeffersons' building ... and it was! I'd love to live there!!

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Amazing. The loss of Norman Lear hit me hard, even at 101. I loved all of these shows. I used to watch them on Antenna TV. (The channel, which I believe is an affiliate of WPIX ... 11.2? I may be wrong.) I am a proud owner of a pair of rabbit ears still, in 2023

This is truly fantastic. And quite fitting for the Retrologist - that iOS interface on your phone in front of the Archie Bunker house

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Hi Andee!

Same! I have a pair of rabbit ears on a 1972 13-inch Sony Trinitron, and classic shows like "All in the Family" look GREAT on them! Alas, those old videotaped shows will always look somewhat crummy on today's high-resolution flat screens, even working off of master tapes. Had these shows been shot on film ... that would have been another story. But they would not have been the same on film, either. Tape is what gave them their immediacy, their sense of seeing something relevant, real and now.

Correct, I used to work at Antenna TV (as part of my work at WPIX) and we did indeed have all the Lear shows for many years. We lost the rights to another network and that was sad, but we picked up "Archie Bunker's Place" and got back "The Jeffersons" too, eventually.

Thank you for the kind words. I too was noticing the IOS interface -- that juxtaposition was once meant to compare the past and present, yet now itself represents another layer in time!

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