<p>CGM,
It must have been a local in different cities because I lived nowhere near Baltimore or Chicago, but definately was on a Romper Room with magic mirror and all.</p>
<p>Romper Room was a local franchise, I remember the “bend & stretch reach for the stars” exercise part, and I would borrow my mother’s broom for the pretend horse and careen around the living room…I waited religiously every day for “Miss Pat” to see me in the magic mirror…but alas, However I did see Miss Pat in real life while out on a family picnic in the park, she was wrestling with a friend 
in the bushes…my mother was not amused when I dragged her over to see…</p>
<p>I adored Sherrie Lewis! And Lamb Chop. And Charlie Horse. And Hush Puppy. Later, when she did Lamb Chop’s Play-along when my D was a kindergartner, we use to sit and watch it together and laugh until our sides hurt. I was so sad when Sherrie Lewis died…</p>
<p>What about the bus or cars made from a box and we ran around inside it…</p>
<p>Lamb Chop…yeah, a Classic</p>
<p>Topo Gigio.</p>
<p>jym626, yes clarabell whispered “I can talk” at the end of the final episode. That was huge.</p>
<p>
Yes! my son had one of those old-fashioned, piano-playing kindergarten teachers when she was a few years shy of retirement, and she was wonderful! I was so disappointed when she retired the year before my daughter started K.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember nap time in kindergarten? The biggest thrill was to be chosen as the wake up fairy, who tapped everyone with a wand to wake up. I remember kindergarten as a kind of play school – I’m sure we did very little, if any, academic work, and was a half day. To me, it seems much healthier for 5 year olds compared to pushing the 1st grade curriculum down into kindergarten.</p>
<p>2331-
Clarabell talked in the last episode of Howdy Doody, not Captain Kangaroo. He said “Goodbye Kids”. You might be getting it mixed up with Captain Kangaroo because Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) was the first one to play Clarabell on Howdy Doody. But, he was fired (not once, but twice, in 1950 and again in 1952). So, I would be surprised if any of the Clarabell characters caame onto the last episode of Captain Kangaroo, which aired until 1984. Howdy Doody went off the air (done in by Gumby and The Mickey Mouse Club) in about 1960, though a different version reappeared in 1976.</p>
<p>Some of this trivia I actually remembered, as Buffalo Bob Smith and his brother Vic owned (and ran) the local liquor and shoe stores in our town. We used to go into the liquor store as little elementary school kids to say hi to Buffalo Bob! Clarabelle and Princess Ticklefeather used to come to our elementary school carnivals every year! It was great! My brother was in the Peanut Gallery on Howdy Doody once (I was too young… grr…). Anyway, the rest of the trivia can be found at :</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.howdydoodytime.com/hdshow.htm[/url]”>http://www.howdydoodytime.com/hdshow.htm</a>
<a href=“http://www.tvparty.com/lostterrytoons.html[/url]”>http://www.tvparty.com/lostterrytoons.html</a></p>
<p>thanks for the clarification!</p>
<p>Hey kids what time is it?</p>
<p>It’s Buffalo Bob’s fire water time!!!</p>
<p>dudedad-
From my memory, I believe brother Vic, the Stride Rite Shoestore guy across the street, hit the “firewater” that brother Bob was selling. Of course, we were too busy getting irradiated from the xray machine in the shoestore (where we could look at the bones in our feet) to notice. I wonder if I’ll get toe cancer???</p>
<p>Oh and BTW poetsheart, it was SHARI Lewis (not Sherrie)</p>
<p>oh, and CGM-
Were you a do bee or a don’t bee??</p>
<p>a doooo bee of course</p>
<p>but of course ;)</p>
<p>clarification–
It was Princess Winterspringsummerfall who came to our school fairs. She was from Howdy Doody. Princess Ticklefeather was from Bozo the clown. </p>
<p>But get this!! Check out this link! Bozo was played, at one point, by WILLARD SCOTT (before he did the weather and said happy birthday to the 100+ yr olds and said how pretty these wrinkly old prunes looked!) <a href=“http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/bozopt2.html[/url]”>http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/bozopt2.html</a></p>
<p>Someone clever should find a way to merge this thread with the Menopausal Moms thread – might explain a few of our issues!</p>
<p>my friend forwarded me this:
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE</p>
<p>1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s</p>
<p>First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.</p>
<p>We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.</p>
<p>Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.</p>
<p>We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.</p>
<p>We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.</p>
<p>We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because…</p>
<p>WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!</p>
<p>We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.</p>
<p>No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.</p>
<p>We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.</p>
<p>We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms…WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!</p>
<p>WE fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.</p>
<p>We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.</p>
<p>We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,</p>
<p>We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.</p>
<p>We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!</p>
<p>Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!</p>
<p>The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!</p>
<p>This generation has produced some of the best risk!-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.</p>
<p>We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned</p>
<p>HOW TO</p>
<p>DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!</p>
<p>CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’</p>
<p>During the 20th century, childbirth deaths went from 1 in 100 to 1 in 10,000 (<a href=“Maternal death - Wikipedia)%5B/url%5D”>Maternal death - Wikipedia)</a>. </p>
<p>Deaths in the first year of life (in the US) have gone from 30/1000 to 6/1000 since 1960 (<a href=“http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/CHS/VSTAT/imr/imr.shtm[/url]”>http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/CHS/VSTAT/imr/imr.shtm</a>)</p>
<p>The accidental death rate for children has fallen by almost half in the last 20 years: <a href=“http://www.ncpa.org/pd/regulat/pd121799e.html[/url]”>http://www.ncpa.org/pd/regulat/pd121799e.html</a></p>
<p>The life expectancy for newborns has increased by more than 6 years since 1970
<a href=“http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/78LifeExpectancy.cfm[/url]”>http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/78LifeExpectancy.cfm</a></p>
<p>Anyone remember Berma Shave ads ? They finally had to ban them because they caused so many accidents. </p>
<p>And how about Rin Tin Tin? And Mighty Mouse? </p>
<p>Here he comes to save the day
something something Mighty Mouse is on his way!</p>