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 Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:39 am
KatrinaZ Does anyone remember watching Kaptain Kangaroo, with Mr. Greenjeans, moose and rabbit? ... Interesting, but I met Captain Kangeroo in person before he was Captain Kangeroo. That;s when he was Clarabell. He was from Long Island where I grew up and he came to our Grade School for a promotional appearance. That's when he was on the Howdy Doody Show!
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:15 am
Pflibbitz KatrinaZ Does anyone remember watching Kaptain Kangaroo, with Mr. Greenjeans, moose and rabbit? ... Interesting, but I met Captain Kangeroo in person before he was Captain Kangeroo. That;s when he was Clarabell. He was from Long Island where I grew up and he came to our Grade School for a promotional appearance. That's when he was on the Howdy Doody Show!
He was Clarabell?!? I didn't see very many Howdy Doody shows in my time, but I think that is sooo COOL !!!
*sings, and forgets some of the words* It's Howdy Doody time! It's Howdy Doody Time! Da da da daa ta da, Da da da daa ta da. blaugh
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:44 am
Well, I'm from New Yawk! and here two of the favorite activities of my childhood were Stick Ball and Stoop Ball!
I grew up before there was TV!
On Sunday mornings I'd snuggle up with my parent's on their bed and listen to Mayor Laguardia (New York City) read the comics to us over the radio.
On Christmas Eve, we would all sit around the Console Radio (that was bigger than me) and Mayor Laguardia would read the T'was The Night Before Christmas at about 8 p.m. and then I would go to bed with those Sugar Plum visions to anxiously await the next mornings presents.
On Saturday mornings, we would all gather at a friends house for a picture show. Unknown to me, my friends father was a world renowned photographer and editor of Popular Photography magazine Bruce Downs.
Anyway, their family was the only one who had a movie projector and we would get to watch a couple of reels of movies in their basement theater.
The first TV I ever watched was the Howdy Doody Show. Again it was at a friends house because they were the first on the block to get a TV. At the appointed hour, a group of us kids would hunker down on the floor to watch their 12" Black and White TV screen to enjoy Howdy and his friends entertain us for a half an hour.
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:48 am
KatrinaZ Pflibbitz KatrinaZ Does anyone remember watching Kaptain Kangaroo, with Mr. Greenjeans, moose and rabbit? ... Interesting, but I met Captain Kangeroo in person before he was Captain Kangeroo. That;s when he was Clarabell. He was from Long Island where I grew up and he came to our Grade School for a promotional appearance. That's when he was on the Howdy Doody Show! He was Clarabell?!? I didn't see very many Howdy Doody shows in my time, but I think that is sooo COOL !!! *sings, and forgets some of the words* It's Howdy Doody time! It's Howdy Doody Time! Da da da daa ta da, Da da da daa ta da. blaugh If I remember it correctly, he was the first Clarabell and then went on to national fame as Captain Kangeroo. Of course, we also had Captain Video on New York Televison and my favorite, Kukla, Fran and Ollie! Back then, puppets were puppets and they showed them strings and all.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:23 pm
OMG, Kukla, Fran and Ollie! I saw a few of those shows, too. As a toddler, my favorite show was Mighty Mouse. Every time my mom got mad at me, I'd tell her that Mighty Mouse was going to get her! He's my HERO !!!
*singing* Here he comes to save the day, it's Mighty Mouse!!! blaugh
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:07 am
my sundays were the best at my house,dad would get up and make us all silver dollar pancakes.he would give the barbie sized ones to me so i could have breakfast with them at the table.we would also get the funnys and fight over them.and i dont remember the phone ringing that much as a kid also.but i do remember that we had like a 30 foot phone cord and my sister would go outside or down to the basement stairs and talk on it.lol
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:19 am
On Sunday's, all my aunts, uncles and cousins on my dad's side would go over to my Grandma and Grandpa's house. for dinner. Each family brought a dish to pass. A couple of times, we made ice cream in one of those old fashioned ice cream makers, the kind you had to turn the hand crank for what seemed like hours on end! After the meals, the men would go into the basement or outside and chat, while the women sat at the dinning room table and played cards, usually Hearts. Us kids would be all over the place, playing and bugging everyone! It was great! I miss those days...
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:39 pm
everyone i read was born in the 80's i was born in the 70's the 80's were the long haired bands ooooo how they rock
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:39 pm
I remember my mom sitting me in front of our black and white TV and watching the first man walk on the moon.
I remember watching I Love Lucy, Speed Racer, Gilligans Island, MASH and the hip movies were Easy Rider, Billy Jack, Star Track (the old ones).
I remember hitch hiking just for something to do.
I know there is more, but my foggy brain wont let the info through. LOL
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:05 pm
I was born in 1959, and we used to play outside all day every day when i was a kid. Mom and Dad would call us back to the house if they needed us using a big bell they put on the end of the grape arbor we still have. We used to go all over the place, to the warehouses, and all over the government farms in our back yard. I remember being excited when I first saw a calf being born on those farms.
Anyway, I was outside most every day back then, no computers, and not allowed to watch tv (it belonged to Dad and he did not allow us to watch it when he was not home, but we did anyway - Kimba the White Lion, Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo, Ultraman, and Speed Racer)
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:39 am
Yeah, we played outside all the time too, unless there was bad weather ... OMG! I remember going outside in the middle of a downpour and dancing around on the driveway in the rain! That was so much fun!!!
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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:00 pm
When I was in grade school, they did not know (or at least they pretended to not know) of the dangers of DDT (the pesticide that was later banned in the 70s some time). I swear I am not making this up when I tell you that they used to spray this fog of DDT to kill bugs in our home town in Nebraska. We used to play hide and seek until the deadly fog came to kill the bugs. If you were slow, you would get caught up in the deadly fog and you would stumble back to your house coughing and wheezing (happened to me once only. I got faster after that!). They said it didn't hurt people or animals and just killed bugs but I swear that is why I have such serious allergies now as an adult. Still, it was great fun to play hide and seek and try not to get caught in the deadly fog of pesticide.
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:02 am
pirate Geesh, I remember getting up early on Saturdays to watch the micky mouse club...when Lisa Whelchel was on it...Come to think of it, there were quite a few of those mousketeers that ended up on Facts of Life. Ohh yeah. How about the Donny and Marie show? In my hometown, that was on right after Lost in Time, and right before the KISS show. I s**t you not.
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:29 am
Yeah! The Mickey Mouse Club! When I was a toddler, I had a jean jacket with a Mickey Mouse Club patch on it, and I also had a Mickey Mouse Ears hat! blaugh
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:24 pm
NatziSweetzi I remember my mom sitting me in front of our black and white TV and watching the first man walk on the moon. I remember watching I Love Lucy, Speed Racer, Gilligans Island, MASH and the hip movies were Easy Rider, Billy Jack, Star Track (the old ones). I remember hitch hiking just for something to do. I know there is more, but my foggy brain wont let the info through. LOL MASH & Gilligans Island made for some good TV!
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