Made in Japan

Made in Japan
There a re moments when you start noticing things around you. It might be your father's car , a house hold item like a mixer in the kitchen or refrigerator. For me it was the refrigerator in my uncle's home when there was no electricity in his home our ancestral home. It worked with kerosene. It amazed me how some thing which burned kerosene would produce ice. Especially in hot and humid Caspian summers it was such luxury to have a cold Canada Dry my drink of choice. When electricity came to this village I'd see fans made in Japan in my uncle's house or my dad's cousin. To own made in Japan items then was a luxury. They had National bran fans, Samsung radios and later on when my uncle bought a Schwab Lawrence TV close family and friends would gather every night to watch U.S television programs like long running Payton Place and for us kids there was Bewitched or various cartoons. Every one young and old would sit in large guest room sip tea and not blink an eye lid watching their favorite show. Gradually every family bought their own TV and on Payton Place nights fewer and fewer showed up. Made in Japan TVs put an End to a long held tradition of visiting family after dinner time.