<p>Yes, Shari Lewis. Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
Jack Benny’s violin.
Anybody a Brooklyn Dodger fan?</p>
<p>Soupy Sales’ real name is Milton Heinz. Tiny Tim’s real name is Herbert Khoury (for all you useless trivia fans). Anyone remember when Soupy Sales told the kids to go into their dads pants pocket, take out the green paper and mail it to him?? How about the line about his left leg being Thanksgiving and his right leg being Christmas, and asking someone to come visit him between the holidays. I think that got him suspended for a brief period of time.</p>
<p>btw, I believe it was “Winky Dink”. I had the plastic sheet, too, and I don’t remember what the heck “winky dink” was!</p>
<p>and Pinky Lee. And Andy’s Gang, with Midnight the Cat, Froggy (“Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!”), and Rama of the Jungle film inserts.
These were some of my faves in the 50s.</p>
<p>(It’s odd–often when we refer to the 60s, we’re really thinking about either the early 70s or the mid-to-late 50s.)</p>
<p>Shari Lewis sure did span the decades. My daughter loved her and Lambchop in the 90s.</p>
<p>I’m not a B-Dodgers fan, but I did happen to drive by the Ebbets Field Apartments last weekend. Sad, even for a non-B-Dodgers fan.</p>
<p>Gerald McBoing-Boing! Who the heck was he?? Somehow he’s part of Winky Dink in my mind, whoever or whatever that was. . .</p>
<p>jym–I remember that episode of Soupy where he told us to send him the green stuff from our dads’ pockets! And keep this in mind: Soupy Says “He who keeps his pipe in his back pocket burns his britches behind him.”</p>
<p>skiersmom,
These things are bodyshapers.</p>
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<p>Standard issue in some sororities nowadays.</p>
<p>In Brooklyn in the mid 60’s to early 70’s…Knock-hockey, Jacks (played with super balls), and the card game Spit were our favorite cool-down games. Outdoor games of punchball or basketball were always played on a cement schoolyard. We also liked to play a handball game called King/Queens against a wall in the backyard of our apartment house. If a stoop was available, we’d play stoopball. Or “Hit the Penny” on any sidewalk crack. Bicycle riding down the bike path on Ocean Parkway was big, too. You’d see an occassional horse going down the bridle path from Prospect Park to Coney Island. When it got real hot and the ice cream man came, we’d shout up to our mother’s to throw down change to us wrapped in napkins with rubber bands from the upper floors of our building.</p>
<p>Any Jacks pro’s out there who remember the fancies? I remember “rattle snake” and “sweep the house”, but there were like 20 others that I knew. I wanted to teach them to my own kids but couldn’t remeber them…</p>
<p>Fun times!</p>
<p>How many of us got into BIG trouble because we drew right on the TV screen during Winky Dink since we didn’t have money for the plastic overlay screen? Thanks for resurrecting that memory!</p>
<p>Rachacha- that reminds me of the time when my oldest was a toddler. He had a big huge magnet (I think H had pulled it out of some motor somewhere), and when I turned my head he had that thing up on the TV screen and was watching it work it’s magic. Needless to say, you can imagine what the picture on the set ended up looking like, and it doesn’t “come out”!</p>
<p>ReneeV: If you remember Starlit Stairway, then you must remember Wallaby and Jack! I still want to go say hello to Ira Joe Fisher at CBS Morning Show. He learned to draw the weather pics on the plexiglass in Spokane. Did you ever go to Tiffany’s?</p>
<p>We knew so many talented kids that danced, sang and one older girl who played “Flight of the Bumblebee” on the violin and always won. </p>
<p>Do you still live in Spokane? If so, GO ZAGS!!</p>
<p>JYm626, Sandy Becker was my ultimate dreamboat!! I compared every boy to him. He was so handsome! Does anyone remember a show where there was a circus master guy and a BIGTOP sort of theme? I don’t know if it was a NY area show or not, like Wonderama? My college roommate came from the Berkshires and used to talk about the Freddie Freihofer show and how she got to be on it once…haha.</p>
<p>Winky Dink was the BEST!! My husband thinks I’m making it up and the kids don’t believe me, but it was really the start of the idea of interactive media, in a way.</p>
<p>I went to college with Captain kangaroo’s daughter. She was a pretty version of him if you can imagine that.</p>
<p>WAsn’t Sonny Fox on Wonderama before Bob McCallister?</p>
<p>Yep - it was Becker, Fox, and McAllister in that order I think…</p>
<p>I can’t think of the name of that circus show but I remember it. And I stand corrected, it was Winky Dink not Rinky Dink.</p>
<p>Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings
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<p>I LOVE YOUTUBE!!</p>
<p>I laughed and smiled as this thread brought back a lot of memories. Yes, you had to be home when the street lights came on but during the school year, you came home, changed clothes, had a snack, did homework and if you were lucky, you got to go out until the street lights came on.</p>
<p>What’s going on here- didn’t any one:</p>
<p>Play skelly?</p>
<p>Run your bottle tops across the street gratings so that you could have smooth glass rings to shoot skelly?</p>
<p>packed asphalt in the metal bottle caps to play skelly?</p>
<p>Played a good game of hot peas and butter or red rover?</p>
<p>cut both ends of of a soda can so that you could shoot water from the fire hydrant? </p>
<p>Play giant step or red light, green light, 1, 2, 3?</p>
<p>Do you remember getting glasses or dish towels in the box of soap powder (lux, Duz)?</p>
<p>The welches jelly glasses with the flintstone drawings?</p>
<p>yes, yes, no, yes, yes, and yes!</p>
<p>Shrinkrap,</p>
<p>Did you grow up in Brooklyn too???</p>
<p>Dke-
I think the circus show was Clyde Kirshner’s Terrytoons Circus (formerly Super Circus) <a href=“http://www.tvparty.com/lostny2scrub.html[/url]”>http://www.tvparty.com/lostny2scrub.html</a> <a href=“TV Acres - Best General News Website 2024”>TV Acres - Best General News Website 2024;
<p>The other Circus theme was Paul Winchell’s Circus Time with Jerry Mahoney! Loved that show too! <a href=“http://www.paulwinchell.com/index.html[/url]”>http://www.paulwinchell.com/index.html</a> <a href=“http://www.tvparty.com/lostmahoney.html[/url]”>http://www.tvparty.com/lostmahoney.html</a></p>
<p>Man, these take me back!</p>
<p>I also loved Topper, My Little Margie, the Gale Storm Show, Our Miss Brooks and Love that Bob</p>