Originally Posted By tapdancemom had four younger sisters so I always had a "real baby doll" to play with.
Originally Posted By gardenrooms Glad there are a few others out there who remember Howdy Doody and Winky Dink (yeah, I had the plastic thing and drew on the tv, too, used to love that!) How abaout Kukla, Fran and Ollie or Beanie and Cecil (the puppets, not the cartoon)? And, of course, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans - Happy Trails to You! When I was a kid, I got a Mattel Fanner Fifty for my birthday; played with Ginnie dolls; my family had an old "woodie" back when it was just a junky old car, not a classic! (The brakes went out twice, the water pump blew and we had to stop at every gbas station on the way home, the passenger door flew open once - and this was before seat belts, my grandmother almost fell out but my Mom, who was driving, grabbed her). Oh, and when I was a kid, gas was 25 cents a gallon! Or less!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan ...loved Friday mornings at school... something about Fridays still make them almost better than Saturdays. Fridays have the "promise" of a great weekend ahead. Sometimes the weekends deliver, sometimes they don't, but Friday's always offer hope...
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan ...loved to watch "Creature Features" on Saturday nights here in the Bay Area. They showed some of the great classics (Frankenstein, Wolfman, the Hammer horror films) and the not-so-classic (lots of low grade "giant monsters created by freak atomic cloud" stuff). The host, Bob Wilkins, sat in a chair on a set designed to look like the interior of a haunted house, and he's appear during station breaks to share trivia about the movie being shown that night. He'd also be up front right at the beginning of the movie, warning us if the movie was a stinkeroo or not.
Originally Posted By friendofdd Bet he didn't hold a candle to *Elvira, Mistress of the Dark*. 'Course I wasn't a child when I appreciated her.
Originally Posted By wendebird >>watched Soupy Sales, Sky King, and My Friend Flicka.<< Question for you, was is Soupy Sales or Punch & Judy that had a character named Pookie? We named our black lab after it & I forget now where the name came from.
Originally Posted By tapdancemom Oh my gosh, we had a dog named Pookie too, and it was Soupy Sales. White Fang and Black Tooth were on the show too. There's a story that Soupy Sales told all the children one day to go to their parents wallet and get the green pieces of paper and send them to him. Anyone ever hear that one?
Originally Posted By beamerdog >>Kukla, Fran and Ollie<< Was this the one with Willie the Worm? He scared the dickens out of me. I used to run out of the room when he was on.
Originally Posted By tapdancemom we drank our milk with strawberry and chocolate flavor straws, and bought little wax bottles, but the heads off and drank the juice inside.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Was this the one with Willie the Worm? He scared the dickens out of me.<< <a href="http://www.chicagohistory.org/KFO/kfo.html" target="_blank">http://www.chicagohistory.org/ KFO/kfo.html</a>
Originally Posted By Mrs Nurmi I remember the Soupy Sales story! Seems to me it was quite a controversy - isn't that what finally sent him off the air?
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger >>There's a story that Soupy Sales told all the children one day to go to their parents wallet and get the green pieces of paper and send them to him. Anyone ever hear that one? << I remember hearing Soupy Sales tell about it. He said the next week they received something like $2,500 in the mail and were horrified. I don't think that was what took him off the air, though.
