<p>Ladies, I think we need to start our new page. I volunteer to do so right now. Menopausal types, head on over!!!</p>
<p>Lydia Pinkham pills ;)</p>
<p>Hey kidz, what time is it?..</p>
<p>Bonjour momof3sons, </p>
<p>We had the same language tapes. I still remember many pieces of those fairly useless dialogues–“La neige est belle…” “Voyons, quel jour sommes nous?” "</p>
<p>ROMPER ROOM!!</p>
<p>My name was unusual, so i never was said hello to through the magic mirror,and i waited everyday
:(</p>
<p>I LOVED Romper Room! And what about Captain Kangaroo? It’s amazing how many of my childhood memories are related to television!</p>
<p>Mr Greenjeans…</p>
<p>And I loved how Petticoat Junction, and GreenAcres and another show were kind of connected…</p>
<p>I remember “Queen for a Day”, at age 5 I thought it was wonderful, after I ‘grew up’ I realized how hideous it was, I’m surprised it hasn’t been revived!</p>
<p>I loved Petticoat Junction… I wanted to go swimming in that water tower.</p>
<p>I don’t remember another show connected to it besides Green Acres… does anyone else remember? It may have been a show that I didn’t watch.</p>
<p>Good grief, SRA reading cards. I remember the thrill of reaching the “turquoise level”</p>
<p>My 1st grade teacher, Miss Smith, had trouble distinguishing the air raid drills from the fire drills, so we frequently went outside for the bombs and were under our desks for the fire drills. She did not endure in the school district, but I loved her because she taught me to read. Of course girls were required to wear dresses to school, a great burden to me, a tomboy. And we all worked very hard because we were learning so we could “beat the Russians” </p>
<p>When we had the rare thrill of a “film” or “film strip” the big 6th grade boys would come in and hang up special “black out curtains” (no doubt some WWII relic in our air base town) and then stay to run the projector. (Girls of course could not run the projector of hang the curtains but could work in the cafeteria if they wore their hair net…)</p>
<p>And here is a TV artifact: Miss Frances on Ding Dong School (!) and Roy and Dale Rogers (also NellyBelle) on the Roy Rogers Show. Grown ups watched Walter Cronkite on some show sponsored by Prudential (“You Were There…”??? Someone help me out on this one…)</p>
<p>I was on Romper Room :). All I remember about being on there was that I got to do the weather. Too bad we didn’t have VCRs and such back then—I would love to see my show!</p>
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<p>Beverly Hillbillies had a Hooterville connection.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this was true in other states, but in California, there was a time when the Kindergarten teacher had to be able to play the piano and there always was one in the class.</p>
<p>A friend of mine was such a K teacher and she couldn’t play the piano very well. One time her class had a sub. The next day she asked the class how they liked their sub. One little girl said, “Oh Mrs. Rainville, she couldn’t play the piano as well as YOU can, she had to use TWO hands!” We still laugh about that one…</p>
<p>Queen for a Day was the best!! Whichever contestant was voted by the audience (remember that applause meter) for having the most pathetic wretched life would win…a new washer and dryer! and get to wear a crown.</p>
<p>In a way the concept lives…like in Extreme Makeover (or its variant where they get a new house…Extreme Makeover home edition?? or whatever it’s called).</p>
<p>quiz: anyone remember what Clarabell did on the final Captain Kangaroo episode?</p>
<p>I love Extreme Makeover Home Edition…</p>
<p>A good friend of mine’s home was “madeover” on the show’s first season. She is a widow with 9 kids. Everytime I’m home in CA for a visit, I go to her house – it’s awesome! One of the show’s stars, Connie, met her new husband on that episode.</p>
<p>2331-
Clarabelle TALKED on the last episode. </p>
<p>Also, am I mixing up Romper Room and Ms Francis/ Ding Dong School? I thought it was Ms. Francis with the magic mirror. I was home sick one day and she actually said MY name! I was beyoned thrilled!</p>
<p>mmmah-
Is the show you are trying to remember “You were there”? He hosted that back in the 50-60’s.</p>
<p>Was Romper Room like a local show for different cities</p>
<p><a href=“http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/romper.html[/url]”>http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/romper.html</a></p>
<p>“Romper, bomper, stomper, boo.
Tell me, tell me, tell me do.
Magic mirror, tell me today.
Did all my friends have fun at play?” </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.tvacres.com/props_mirrors_romper.htm[/url]”>http://www.tvacres.com/props_mirrors_romper.htm</a></p>
<p>“Miss Nancy” (Nancy Rogers Claster) created the idea for Romper Room with her husband, Bert Claster. Nancy (who died in 1997 of cancer at age 82 ) hosted the nationally syndicated show first in Baltimore and then in Chicago. In 1964, Claster’s daughter, “Miss Sally” (Sally Claster Gelbard) replaced her mother as the national host of the show. Other cities around the country hired their own female counter parts to host the show in their market areas. See a short list below of*some Romper Room hostesses and the towns where they aired on TV.</p>
<p>(Okay, my brain is still functioning)- I remember moving and Romper Room was different- different room, but still my Name was never said…i think parents could send it names, and if it was common, it got said…sigh</p>
<p>mmaah-
My bad. It was “The 20th Century” that was sponsored by Prudential.</p>