TV sets still had "tubes" when I was a kid, so when I saw these lit up inside the back of the set I thought there were entire cities in there where all the people I saw on TV lived and worked. After all they were only as big as the TV screen, weren't they?
A childhood belief about tv
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the people that worked in stores slept right there on the floor and lived there. Anon
- I used to belive that employees who worked at 24/7 shops lived there and never slept!(they worked 24/7)— tilly Waukesha WI
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- I used to believe the people I saw on TV lived inside it and the could really see you.Anon
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- I used to believe that actors were little people that lived inside the television set.Anon