<p>Cleo the basset hound who “thought” out loud in The People’s Choice with Jackie Cooper</p>
<p>Wasn’t it Claude Kirshner, not Clyde? He was the ringmaster.</p>
<p>sybbie-skelly was a favorite. Long games of giant steps on summer nights,
Jump the bridge. Ringalevio.
Jelly glasses were special. My sister and I recall way back, some cereal-perhaps cornflakes had a certificate you sent in with a little money and you could buy a square inch or land in Alaska. LOL, it was probably a piece of ice.
I’ve tried explaining to my kids how I had school clothing and play clothing, but just got blank stares.</p>
<p>Yes, Kinshasa, Claude Kirshner. I can’t type. Me bad. Sorry.</p>
<p>"Shrinkrap,</p>
<p>Did you grow up in Brooklyn too???"</p>
<p>No; but I was born there and my extended family lived in Brooklyn .I spent almost as many weekends in Brooklyn as I did in Queens.</p>
<p>Was Jerry Mahoney the ventriloquist’s doll? I remember a show with dolls like that. and the jelly glasses with the cartoon characters on them! We sold my mother’s house recently, and were trying to figure out who would take what with them. My niece only wanted two things: the jelly glasses. I wish they’d make them again!</p>
<p>Coureur, (if you are still reading this) thanks for the link to the Bay Area shows! When I saw this thread I thought of Captain Satillite, too! But I had forgot about The Mayor Art Show. And Charley and Humphrey!</p>
<p>Bumping this because Chris Wedes died this morning.
[Obituary:</a> “J.P. Patches,” Seattle’s beloved TV clown | Local News | The Seattle Times](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018749756_chriswedesobit23m.html?syndication=rss]Obituary:”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018749756_chriswedesobit23m.html?syndication=rss)</p>
<p>Whoa. This thread is 5 years old! </p>
<p>Condolences, EK. As an east coaster I am not familiar with that TV clown. But we are losing many from our youth. Ah, passages.</p>
<p>All I remembered was that I had started a thread about childhood icons. I was a bit shocked to see how old it was . My memory must be better than I thought!</p>
<p>I grew up watching Bozo. As an adult I was at the live show (WGN studio) accompaning a dog the clowns needed for a skit. The clowns wanted the dog to bark menacingly at the climas. This friendly sighthound would not do it and so they changed the punchline in rehearsal. To me, in rehearsal, it seemed like it would bomb and none of the skits seemd that funny. Different story with the live audience of shreiking, laughing children there…then the skits were great!</p>
<p>And I got to have my picture taken with Bozo.</p>
<p>Dark Shadows.</p>
<p>I also grew up in Queens… Queens Village and when to Martin Van Buren HS… and yes I remember Winky Dink-it was pretty awesome. When I was in high school we went to both the World’s Fair and to Mets Games after-school on the bus with our G.O. cards for $1.50 or so… I also remember Freedomland Amusement Park right over the Throgs Neck Bridge in the Bronx and Kiddie City in Douglaston.
When my older d was young, I went into a local toy store in my town and asked to buy a Spaldeen and the owner became hysterical… no one had ever asked for one and he hadn’t actually heard that word in a really long time…</p>
<p>Chucko the Birthday Clown, Sheriff John and the Lunch Brigade, Howdy Doody, Romper Room, the Mickey Mouse Club, and Captain Kangaroo. I was in the audience for Bozo the Clown…he was not a happy camper. Kukla, Fran and Ollie…</p>
<p>OMG sewhappy. We would race home from school in order to catch the last half of Dark Shadows. I love that show and I couldn’t wait to get older do that I too could sip sherry!</p>
<p>I having a partial flashback. I lived in Seattle until about age 6, and only vaguely remember J.P. Patches. I remember the name but I can’t recall anything about the character. I’ve texted my older brother the news and expect he’ll have a clearer memory.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it was a pacific NW thing or national, but one clear memory I have from my Seattle youth was my brother and me I plotting to jump from the ground on to the roof of our house because of the special power of our PF Flyers.</p>
<p>Duff McKagan wrote a nice column about JP Patches.
[J.P</a>. Patches Made Seattle Bands a Little Bit Different. Seriously - Seattle Music - Reverb](<a href=“http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2012/07/jp_patches_made_seattle_bands.php]J.P”>http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2012/07/jp_patches_made_seattle_bands.php)
Fun to read that they didn’t have a script. ( from an interview with Bob Newman, who I lived across the street from)
[J.P</a>. sidekick Bob Newman talks about ‘the clown’ | NWCN.com Washington - Oregon - Idaho](<a href=“http://www.nwcn.com/video/featured-videos/JP-sidekick-Bob-Newman-talks-about-the-clown-163454766.html]J.P”>http://www.nwcn.com/video/featured-videos/JP-sidekick-Bob-Newman-talks-about-the-clown-163454766.html)
People outside the area didn’t really get JP. They saw a clown but he wasn’t a " clown" really, IMO. He was more like Mr.Rogers. With really good cartoons. He just happened to wear greasepaint.
:)</p>
<p>I am late to the party… have scanned through these posts and haven’t found reference to a Northern California show… anyone remember Captain Delta? In the 70’s he came back as Captain Mitch.</p>
<p>I also remember Miss Pat’s Playroom. Started every morning with cereal and Captain Kangaroo.</p>
<p>one clear memory I have from my Seattle youth was my brother and me I plotting to jump from the ground on to the roof of our house because of the special power of our PF Flyers.
:eek:</p>
<p>I had PF Flyers, but I didn’t jump off the roof. I was not really the physically experimental type. That would be my youngest.
However one of my boyfriends did ( when he was a kid) after he saw Mary Poppins. He was pretty lucky, he just broke his arm. No word on the condition of the umbrella.</p>
<p>Re: Captain Kangaroo. Not really the right age for it (& I had JP!) but I just saw Being Elmo and it has a sweet story about what it was like to work on the show when he wasn’t that much older than the age of kids watching it.
<a href=“http://beingelmo.com/about.html[/url]”>http://beingelmo.com/about.html</a></p>
<p>Yes, PF Flyers… run faster, jump higher! I would put 'em on and run down the street believing they did make a difference.</p>
<p>Remember the TV show “Hullabaloo” with the go-go dancers in cages. I also remember discussing Monday evening’s Laugh-In while standing in the cafeteria line on Tuesday mornings. </p>
<p>A favorite 60’s treat was Fizzees. We would lick the tablets rather than put them in a glass of water.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to watch Laugh -In as an adult as I am quite sure that 90% of it went right over my head. I remember my dad laughing with tears in his eyes!</p>
<p>We were kid of country folk and enjoyed Bonanza, Gunsmoke and F-troop!</p>
<p>I thought the cigarette commercials of the 60’s/70’s were very entertaining. </p>
<p>I shudder to think what was in those Fizzees we would suck on and if any of my kids ever put the entire long rope of Bazooka gum or a giant jaw breaker in their mouths, I would have flipped out.</p>