Back when cars were cool and houses were simple. I see most houses in that photo have very tall TV Antenna Towers to pick up the tv signals from the nearby cities. Before cable TV, dish network, and the internet. Lol . . .
My dad had a rotator on our tv antenna where we had a box with a dial and we marked what position each channel came in the clearest... Then when we watched that channel, we rotated the dial to that position and there was an electric motor on the antennae that would rotate it to that position...