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Swede’s Photographs Jun 13, 2024

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13 June 2024

Did you watch first runs of The Howdy Doody Show on TV? If you did, you know what that means? That's right, you are a senior citizen, like me. ;) I'll bet there are a lot of folks now-a-days who never heard of Howdy Doody or Clarabell the Clown. Did you know that Robert Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo, was the first to play Clarabell the Clown? I didn't until this morning. I should probably mention Buffalo Bob who was the show's host or maybe cohost, Howdy Doody was a puppet after all. People born in this century are likely not to know of what I speak, for them there are sunny days, and everything is AOK ... wait that is 20th century as well.

"I'm pretty sure Howdy Doody was a puppet!" - Adrian Monk

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lolonurse Jun 13, 2024

@Swede1952
I wasn't a big fan of Howdy Doody or Buffalo Bob, but yes, I'm that age. Do you remember Winky Dink???

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Swede’s Photographs Jun 13, 2024

@lolonurse

Hmmm ... I don't recall Winky Dink. That doesn't necessarily mean I didn't watch it, it probably says more about my memory.

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lolonurse

@Swede1952
Maybe it was local to NYC. He was a talking star, and you could get a Winky-Dink kit, which was a plastic screen overlay and a "special" pencil, and put the overlay on your 1952 tiny TV screen, and draw things that he put on the screen. It was weird but fun, because it was so new.