<p>I don’t have much recollection of Wee Willie.</p>
<p>Anyone (local to Philly) remember Dr Shock? he hosted some really bad horror films and had his daughter ‘bubbles’ on his show? He was a friend of my uncle (both are long since gone). </p>
<p>I wanted the world I grew up into to be like the Jetsons…</p>
<p>and I wanted to be Lost in Space too!</p>
<p>BTW, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh both have their own bands and still sound amazing. Phil is 67, a liver transplant recipient and his older son goes to Stanford.</p>
<p>Being born in the very early 60’s I have always been sort of confused as to whether I was a child of the 60’s or the 70’s. I remember much more of the 70’s than the 60’s. I do remember watching Soupy Sales, Romper Room, Capt. Kangaroo, Top Cat, Bozo the Clown, and many other shows, but for some reason, the 70’s really stand out. I guess that’s when the Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family sort of took over my world. :)</p>
<p>weenie-I LOVE Bill Bryson - the travel book that talks about the Prime Minister of Australia drowning - something about Australia having more ways to die than anywhere else in the world??? What was the name of that book? Hilarious. The one about the Appalaichain Trail? Classic. Refresh my declining (born in '61)LOL! memory! Please! I’d like to read it again!</p>
<p>I thought this thread was going to be about those of us who had hippie parents! I remember my mother having us write anti-war letters to Nixon with ashes in the envelope. Couldn’t do that nowadays. Organic food, homemade clothes, great music. We stuck out like sore thumbs though.</p>
<p>I don’t even think of JP as a “clown” he transcended clown dom- was really nothing like you think of clowns at the circus- he was part Mr Rogers, part Soupy Sales & the tooth fairy.</p>
<p>I was too old for Mr Rogers as a kid- but when I was a nanny in my early 20s I watched him with the 5 year old, so that when a few years later , when Fred Rogers and the “Neighborhood of make believe” came to Seattle to do a fundraiser for the local PBS station, I went with my daughter even though she was only 2 and didn’t watch tv
:)</p>
<p>HoHo the clown in Oklahoma was the bomb. He came to our town for a personal appearance and I still have the picture of us together. What a hoot. </p>
<p>maybe I’m a little older than you guys, but the Spin and Marty serial episodes on the Mickey Mouse Club (watched in the basement with my sis and older cousins) sent me on the path to wanting my own horse and to go to a dude ranch summer camp…both of which I got to do/have by my early teen years!
I also watched American Bandstand with them. Later on, I watched all the afterschool afternoon live music /dance programs…any one else remember Paul Revere and the Raiders???</p>
<p>momoffour-some of were and still are the hippie parents! Well, I keep it toned down…and try to balance with the mainstream. But that is where my heart and values still fit. </p>
<p>weenie-the world that Bill Bryson evoked in “Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid” is incredibly poignant. Pieces of my childhood I’d forgotten. I keep thinking of his comparison with the current homogeneous American commercial culture toward the end of the book. We’re both poorer and richer these days. </p>
<p>Short Walk in the Woods is the book you wanted Nikrud.</p>
<p>p2n – Yes! I was going to! But they talked me out of it on sinner’s alley. (Plus I can’t really think of a new one - plus I sort of hate to lose my obnoxious, I-have-no-life post count —) :)</p>
<p>And for those of who have celebrated Seafair- I attended a fundraiser last year- that was overrun with [Pirates!]( <a href=“http://www.seafairpirates.org/]Pirates![/url]and”>http://www.seafairpirates.org/)and</a> I couldn’t figure out who they were- because Pirates were my * dads age*, not my age or younger! :o</p>
<p>How about Sky King and The Lone Ranger on Saturday mornings and The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy in the evening, for those of us born in the 50’s but still children in the 60’s? Plus, all those classic cartoons still being shown- they truely don’t make them like they used to, with all the attention to color shading (never saw them in color until the '80s, though) and detail. I can give up any memories of The Three Stooges. M-I-C-…</p>
<p>Cutting and pasting from last year’s thread (in no particular order:
Tom Terriffic (and his mighty dog Manfred)
Atom Ant
Betty Boop ( and my friend’s aunt was the voice of Betty Boop! His aunt’s name was Mae Questel.)
“Sgt. Preston of the Yukon”.
Mr. Mc Goo
“My Favorite Martian”, “Dennis the Menace” "Amos “N Andy”<br>
The last time we discussed this topic we talked about Soupy Sales (real name Milton Supman, then Milton Heinz), Tiny Tim (Herbert Khoury), Martin & Rowan’s Laugh In, and Black Beauty (the horse),
“Petticoat Junction”
I loved the Little Rascals as that Alfalfa was such a lady killer. </p>
<p>Remember Chubby’s crush on Miss Crabtree. “You can call me Chubsy Ubsey” 'Oh Miss Crabtree, I’ve got something laying heavy on my heart. Oh Chubsy Ubsy, you gonna have something laying heavy on your head." Remember Alfalfa’s He-man Woman-Hating Club?
Remember Hazel, Beulah, Our Miss Brooks, The Lone Ranger, Ozzie and Harriet, Abott and Costello, Zoro, The Dean Martin Show, Burns & Allen, The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, I’ve Got a Secret, The danny Thomas Show, Gunsmoke, The Gale Storm Show, Perry Como, Have Gun Will Travel, Lawrence Welk (anda one, anda two…) Father Knows Best, The Real McCoys…
“The Fugitive.” The one-armed man. Remember the big hype for the last episode? And do you remember Patrick McGooan in 'The Prisoner"? It was a weird British sci-fi type show- it was on late at night on, I believe, Sunday night. I used to watch it in college.
the AVENGERS- I wanted to be emma peel
Does anyone know of a CD that features the opening music to “The Perry Mason Show”, “Route 66”, “Peter Gun” (boy, did I love the theme from Peter Gun!), and “Hawaii Five-O”?
Wild,Wild West with Robert Conrad</p>
<p>I had a big crush on Robert Vaughn when he played Napoleon Solo on "Man from U.N.C.L.E."Oh… I had a big crush on David McCallum (playing Napolean Solo’s sidekick, Ilya Kuryakin)…but he doesn’t look quite s good now on Navy NCIS.</p>
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