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Television Obscurities
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Television Obscurities is a personal blog at tvobscurities.com about culture and history. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Coin Operated Television Chairs, Circa 1970”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread about TV detector vans to support the history of UK TV rental, including coin-operated sets and weekly rental payments. The only comment cites it as a source and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Exploring forgotten TV from the 1920s to today.
Most-linked posts?
- Coin Operated Television Chairs, Circa 19702 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-26
What Hacker News says?
It's real. The TV rental companies had a range of approaches, one of which was the very expensive option of a coin operated TV. Another common way to pay was by book and visit the TV rental shop weekly to pay a little. If you had one of the coin ops, chances are your electric and gas were on coin operated meters too - with the landlord of your flat or bedsit setting their own markup on that meter... https://www.tvob…
Comment linking /articles/cointv/
on “TV detector van”Submitted Coin Operated Television Chairs, Circa 1970 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coin Operated Television Chairs, Circa 1970 as a story · 1 points
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