Originally Posted By avimagine didn't they have reel to reel recorders and kinescopes back then though toony?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I can still remember her holding up the Magic Mirror, it would block her view from the camera. Then she'd say saying "Magic Mirror, tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play?" Then the screen would get all swirly and the mirror's backing was gone. Miss Nancy was still holding the mirror and could now magically "see" you. It wasn't Industrial Light and Magic, but it was convincing to us tots back then. And on the times she would say your name -- "I see JEFF and Mary and Billy..." it was freaky!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0aFlgq48AU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...Flgq48AU</a>
Originally Posted By avimagine Hey though my city has produced uh for the Disney people Trevor Blumas and uh Ryan Gosling and a few NHLers.
Originally Posted By avimagine I guess but around here there isn't too many communities that haven't produced NHLers (same with Minnesota and Michigan and...) <- Needs to get in shape.
Originally Posted By seafairy1622 I remember my mom liking him. She had his board you twist on. Don't remember what is was called though. I was on Romper Room too, with my brother and I have it on video. My mom had it on one of our old home movies and we put it on video years ago.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Surrrre you were all having fun on camera and I was hiding behind the couch She would do the "Romper Stomper Bomper Boo" thing and then "see" us. If she said "Nancy" I would FREAK out! She could see THROUGH the couch!!!! Back to Jack. Seriously a true Icon.
Originally Posted By DlandDug My mom watched Jack LaLaynne, and I always watched to see Happy the dog. I met Mr. L. a few years ago, and told him how well I remembered that. He looked me right in the eye and said he was sorry to tell me that Happy had died many years earlier. Nice man. (And yes, Romper Room was syndicated in local markets, with a local Miss ________ for each city. I was a good little Do-Bee for Miss Dorothy.)
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub so sad to hear of this. I wish he had lived to be 100. He earned it! Gosh in fifty years will people be remembering Hanna Montana?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 The only Romper Room "Miss" I remember was Miss Maryann. Strange... I remember (even being in the single digits myself) thinking that "that show is for little kids." LOL. Back to Jack: once in an interview (for Sports Illustrated in the 70's I think) he said something like "I swear I'd rather see you drink a scotch than drink Coca-Cola - that swill!" I loved that and from then on my friends and I would refer to Coke as "swill," as in "hand me a swill," or "you want 7-Up or swill?" We still drank it, mind you, but it was both a little in-group slang like most groups of friends develop and maybe somewhere in the back of our minds a reminder that we shouldn't overdo it. Of course, we still overdid it.
Originally Posted By iamsally >>>Back to Jack. Seriously a true Icon<<< Interestingly enough I was not seriously grief stricken by this death. I mean, 96 years and he got to spend most of it doing what he loved with the woman he loved!!??!! That is a great existence. My sister and daughters thought that I would be beside myself. He kept going to the end and did not seem to have suffered long. Now, when Bobby Darin died at 37; I was heartsick. And I have never gotten over John Lennon being struck down just as he was getting it back together. But such a full life needs to be celebrated. I am just so happy that I did get to meet him. And his shows are available online. I have wanted to get some of them. And I have to add: >>> Do be a DO Bee!<<< Don't be a Don't Bee!
