Bob Keeshan

WardNA said:

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Dang... you know he always looked old even when he wasn't.

That point was made during some of the retrospectives in the '80s. When he started out with the
show, he used aging make-up. As time went on, he needed less and less.

I was always entirely bored with the show, as young as age 4. Same with Mr. Rogers. Mighty Mouse
was what I needed.

Neil

There was also The Merry Mailman, Rootie Kazootie, Ding Dong School and most likely some more that
my children watched, but which I no longer recall.

I liked Captain Kangaroo. He taught children about farming and eating vegetables and about all sorts
of animals. Mr. Green Jeans was a valuable assistant.

Bob Keeshan was only 27 years old when he started as Captain Kangaroo and even younger, when he was
on the Howdy Doody Show.

Children today may be too sophisticated for the shows of fifty years ago, but I find that they were
just right for pre-school my kids. Also, children at that time were allowed to watch a children's
show in the morning, but did not go near the TV set the rest of the day.

Wow - Ding Dong School with Miss Francis! I remember that fondly. I recall when she used to tell the
kids to leave the room becase she wanted to speak to our mothers. I'd always stay right there and
hear what she was saying about us. <g> Long time ago.

Paul (55)

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There was also The Merry Mailman, Rootie Kazootie, Ding Dong School and most likely some more that
my children watched, but which I no longer recall.

I liked Captain Kangaroo. He taught children about farming and eating vegetables and about all
sorts of animals. Mr. Green Jeans was a valuable assistant.

Bob Keeshan was only 27 years old when he started as Captain Kangaroo and even younger, when he
was on the Howdy Doody Show.

Children today may be too sophisticated for the shows of fifty years ago, but I find that they
were just right for pre-school my kids. Also, children at that time were allowed to watch a
children's show in the morning, but did not go near the TV set the rest of the day.

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:05:16 GMT, Margaret Suran
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There was also The Merry Mailman, Rootie Kazootie, Ding Dong School and most likely some more that
my children watched, but which I no longer recall.

Oh, man, I'd forgotten about Ding Dong School. I was really little and we had our first TV set.
The shows were only on about 4 hours a day. Didn't the "teacher" ring a hand bell at the beginning
of the show?

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I liked Captain Kangaroo. He taught children about farming and eating vegetables and about all
sorts of animals. Mr. Green Jeans was a valuable assistant.

He was, indeed. But the Captain had much to answer for: I mentally morphed inanimate objects into
animate ones until I was well into my teens, a la Grandfather Clock.

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Bob Keeshan was only 27 years old when he started as Captain Kangaroo and even younger, when he was
on the Howdy Doody Show.

Children today may be too sophisticated for the shows of fifty years ago, but I find that they were
just right for pre-school my kids. Also, children at that time were allowed to watch a children's
show in the morning, but did not go near the TV set the rest of the day.

Which did not preclude my mother from watching Bishop Fulton Sheen and Liberace in the evening -
something my brother and I wouldn't stay in the room to watch, anyway!

A link: tvparty.comlostromper.htmlOpen ↗

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as old as the bird, and if the
bird's breasts had been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very good dinner." Anonymous.

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There was also The Merry Mailman, Rootie Kazootie, Ding Dong School and most likely some more that
my children watched, but which I no longer recall.

I loved Romper Room on channel 9. At the end, she'd look into her Magic Mirror and say "I see Billy,
and Susan, and David, and Michael. Look there's Debbie and Lisa (yadda yadda yadda) and I remember
asking my mother how we could get her to "see" me. Now of course, I realize, she just said first
names, sort of a random list....and unfortunately, the closest she ever got to Sheryl was Sherry.
And I hated that name, soooo it didn't count!

And...Wonderama, of course, on Channel 5, Sunday mornings. Followed by my Dad's favorite, Eastside
Comedy (the Bowery Boys). Not a kids' movie, but I always watched them anyway.

Channel 9, i believe, had Bozo the clown. And there was the guy who hosted the cartoon show in the
afternoon on channel 11, he was a captain, and he rang this bell all the time, and he explained what
"two bells" meant. Who remembers...I think he was a Policeman, maybe?

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I liked Captain Kangaroo. He taught children about farming and eating vegetables and about all
sorts of animals. Mr. Green Jeans was a valuable assistant.

Bob Keeshan was only 27 years old when he started as Captain Kangaroo and even younger, when he
was on the Howdy Doody Show.

Children today may be too sophisticated for the shows of fifty years ago, but I find that they
were just right for pre-school my kids. Also, children at that time were allowed to watch a
children's show in the morning, but did not go near the TV set the rest of the day.

Mike Pearce said:

"jmcquown" wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Cheer up, Mike! We aren't getting older, we're getting better.

Convince my knees of that, will you?

-Mike

Sure... do some knee bends every day to keep flexible and make sure you take calcium (my doctor
recommended TUMS for 1000 mgs per day and you also won't get heartburn LOL) Call me in the
morning 🙂

Jill

bobballwrote:

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Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans...

Dancing Bear, Grandfather Clock...

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Sesame street was ok...it beat the soaps when I was home sick from school...

I appreciated Sesame Street more when I was older, when I could (gulp!) look back and remember
the first time I saw particular skits like "Put Down the Duckie" and celebrities doing numbers
and the alphabet.

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Electric Company (out about the same time for older kids) was pretty cool...and had some neat
stuff (Tom Lehrer, former Harvard Math Professor, turned musical comic/satirist, did some of the
songs, including "Silent E"😉.

Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman... "Fargo North, Decoder"... "Easy Reader"...

< " 'th'...'at'... 'that' "

Mike Pearce said:

"jmcquown" wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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PaulaGarlic said:

"PENMART01" wrote

> Captain Kangaroo has passed.

Just saw that on TV about ten seconds ago. I used to watch his show every day in my pre-
kindergarten era. But it was never as memorable as "Sesame Street." I have vivid memories of
the various characters and skits on "Sesame Street," but only vague bits of impressions of
Captain Kangeroo.

Obviously you are younger than some of us. I remember Captain Kangaroo

and

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Romper Room with the magic mirror. I was a bit too old to watch such

shows

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when Sesame Street premiered.

I was a too old for Sesame Street myself. It tough getting older. I remember Captain Kangaroo,
Romper Room (not my favorite), Major Mudd, Rex Trailer and Bozo of course. Rex Trailer was a Boston
thing, Major Mudd may have been as well.

I'm sad to hear that Captain Kangaroo is gone.

-Mike

Mike, Do you remember Buffalo Bob coming on tv and saying "What Time Is It Kids?"..."It's Howdy
Doody Time"! On the Howdy Doody Show there was a clown named "Clara Bell The Clown" who went on to
become famous as "Captain Kangaroo"! My gawd that was a long time ago watching my parent's 1949
Crosley television set!

Bill

Sheryl Rosen said:

I loved Romper Room on channel 9. At the end, she'd look into her Magic Mirror and say "I see
Billy, and Susan, and David, and Michael. Look there's Debbie and Lisa (yadda yadda yadda) and I
remember asking my mother how we could get her to "see" me.

Wench never saw Nancy. Hello!!! NANCY. When I look back I remember she was looking through a
tennis racquet.

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And...Wonderama, of course, on Channel 5, Sunday mornings.

Yeah, I could catch some before the dreaded trip to church. But I can't think of Wonderama without
thinking of my friend Winnie. Her brother wanted to watch something else, he kept turning from
Wonderama. She finally did the only thing she could, which was stab him through the hand with a pair
of scissors. (laughing) Hey, she had the GOLD TEAM, dammit. To this day he cannot put his fingers
together, more like Spock on Star Trek. He can palm a basketball like nobody's business.

Apparently I was too young to remember Diver Dan. Whoever that is. But I do remember But DAVEY! What
was the name of that claymation show. Davey and Goliath. (laughing) There was this guy at work, he
was an absolute moron. Dumb as a box of rocks. Dave somebody. They would call him But DAVEY! if I
only had a brain.

nancy

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Yeah, i distinctly remember being in first grade, and our class subscribed to "Weekly Reader", by
Scholastic. There was an article about Sesame Street in there, that's how I knew about it. Even
the teacher said we were too old for it.

What goes around comes around, I suppose. My father loved the Muppet Show (particularly the two
grumpy old men puppets at the opera). Little did he think it started out as kids TV with a frog, a
lovesick pig and a blue dude with a trash can 🙂

Jill

Miss Piggy was introduced on the Muppet Show. Her true love, Kermit, of course started on Sesame St.
Oh, and the blue dude was Cookie Monster! The one with the trash can was Oscar, and he was Green.
You may be confusing Oscar with Grover, who was also blue. Oscar and Grover were essentially the
same shape, they both had round heads and distinct bodies....Grover was blue and his fur wasn't
matted. Oscar, living in a garbage can, had ratty and matted green fur. OK, I did watch Sesame
Street, but I only paid attention during the entertaining Muppet segments. I already knew how to
count and read. And i watched with my nephews later on.

There were a lot of Muppets who didn't "cross over" between the shows. Most of them, in fact. I
think only Kermit did both shows.

When my sister and I took my nephews (13-14 years younger than me) to see the Muppet movie back in
1978, She had the 1 yr old on her lap, I had the
2.5 yr old on mine. I was 15. At the beginning, 2.5 yr old asks "Aunt Sheryl, will Big Bird be in
this movie?" and I replied that it was just "Muppet show muppets, not Sesame Street Muppets".
Well, who do you think is hitchhiking in the opening sequence of this movie, only to be picked
up by Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog??? (Yes, the bear was driving).....but Big Bird!!!! 2.5
yr old slid off my lap, stood in the aisle, hands on his hips and announced for the entire
theater to hear "YOU LIED TO ME AUNT SHERYL! YOU SAID BIG BIRD WOULDN"T BE IN THIS MOVIE!!! And
there he is!!!"

Too much!

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hw said:

I do believe I read "somewhere" he was in the Marines with Lee Marvin and won several medals
during WW II for bravery in action...

Not that it isn't true, but a quick check of the IMDB database and a quick search of Bob Keeshan
biographies shows only that he served in the U.S. Marine Reserve from 1945-1946.

Even without the medals, he's more than deserving of my respect.

Bob

This is another Urban Legend. urbanlegends.about.combl marvin keeshan.htmOpen ↗

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"There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad.... And there it goes!"

-- Bobby Hill

Nancy Young wrote:

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Apparently I was too young to remember Diver Dan. Whoever that is. But I do remember But DAVEY!
What was the name of that claymation show. Davey and Goliath. (laughing) There was this guy at
work, he was an absolute moron. Dumb as a box of rocks. Dave somebody. They would call him But
DAVEY! if I only had a brain.

I remember Diver Dan -- I loved that show!

Damn! Now I've got the theme music stuck in my head...

---jkb

--
"...That's where you'll find Diver Dan!"

PaulaGarlic said:

Very true. In fact, I thought he died some years back...in the early 1990s.

I am sure that Bob Keeshan was glad you were wrong!

What surprised me the most when I heard of Bob Keeshan's death was that his show was nation-wide.
For some reason, I thought he was a local Philadelphia personality.

Either way, I enjoyed his how when I was a kid. Romper Room was one of my favorites when I was a
little kid.

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Nancy Young wrote:

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Apparently I was too young to remember Diver Dan. Whoever that is. But I do remember But DAVEY!
What was the name of that claymation show. Davey and Goliath. (laughing) There was this guy at
work, he was an absolute moron. Dumb as a box of rocks. Dave somebody. They would call him But
DAVEY! if I only had a brain.

I remember Diver Dan -- I loved that show!

Damn! Now I've got the theme music stuck in my head...

---jkb

What about Clutch Cargo with Spinner and Paddlefoot, where only the mouths moved - they were real
mouths superimposed on the cartoon background. I'd like to have that on DVD...

-L.

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PaulaGarlic said:

Very true. In fact, I thought he died some years back...in the early 1990s.

I am sure that Bob Keeshan was glad you were wrong!

What surprised me the most when I heard of Bob Keeshan's death was that his show was nation-wide.
For some reason, I thought he was a local Philadelphia personality.

That was his intent. No studio audience so each viewer was who he was talking to. _You_ were the
most important kid with him.

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Either way, I enjoyed his how when I was a kid. Romper Room was one of my favorites when I was a
little kid.

maxine in ri who had to share him with my big sister!

Sheryl Rosen said:

Well, as if Captain kangaroo passing wasn't bad enough today, guess what was in my mailbox when I
got home????

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AN INVITATION TO JOIN AARP!!!

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Augh! First they tell you all the great benefits of membership. Then they tell you "But only if
you're 50 or older...."

I have been on AARP's mailing list for the past three or four months. At age 42, I think I
retirement is a ways off for me. I have no clue how I got on AARP's mailing list. The next time I
get something in the mail from AARP, I will make it a point to find out how to get my address off
AARP's list.

On 30 Jan 2004 14:55:10 GMT, [email hidden] arranged random neurons,
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Sheryl Rosen said:

Well, as if Captain kangaroo passing wasn't bad enough today, guess what was in my mailbox when I
got home????

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AN INVITATION TO JOIN AARP!!!

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Augh! First they tell you all the great benefits of membership. Then they tell you "But only if
you're 50 or older...."

I have been on AARP's mailing list for the past three or four months. At age 42, I think I
retirement is a ways off for me. I have no clue how I got on AARP's mailing list. The next time I
get something in the mail from AARP, I will make it a point to find out how to get my address off
AARP's list.

I have no idea how they decide to glom you onto their mailing list, as I got my first solicitation
when I turned *40*. I don't like unsolicited junk mail (as if anyone does), so I just scribble
"deceased" on the envelope and indicate that it should be returned to sender. Haven't heard a word
from them since (or any other snail mail spammers more than once).

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as old as the bird, and if the
bird's breasts had been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very good dinner." Anonymous.

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On 30 Jan 2004 14:55:10 GMT, [email hidden] arranged random neurons, so they looked like this:

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Sheryl Rosen said:

Well, as if Captain kangaroo passing wasn't bad enough today, guess what was in my mailbox when
I got home????

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AN INVITATION TO JOIN AARP!!!

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Augh! First they tell you all the great benefits of membership. Then they tell you "But only if
you're 50 or older...."

I have been on AARP's mailing list for the past three or four months. At age 42, I think I
retirement is a ways off for me. I have no clue how I got on AARP's mailing list. The next time I
get something in the mail from AARP, I will make it a point to find out how to get my address off
AARP's list.

Yeah, I'm just 40. AARP? How the heck did they get MY name??? AND my current address.
Unless....DMV? Maybe. Not much else has my current address. I've loved not getting much junk mail
these past 6 months.

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I have no idea how they decide to glom you onto their mailing list, as I got my first solicitation
when I turned *40*. I don't like unsolicited junk mail (as if anyone does), so I just scribble
"deceased" on the envelope and indicate that it should be returned to sender. Haven't heard a word
from them since (or any other snail mail spammers more than once).

Careful with that. Might come back to "haunt" you. What if one of them reported it to another
company/organization? (and not even on purpose, if they put you in their database as deceased, then
sell the db to another party....and then they sold it...and so on and so on) Might wind up somehow
on your credit report as "deceased", and that would be a NIGHTMARE to correct!!!

I used to work someplace where I had to pull credit reports. My job was to read them and look for
any sort of "flag" that might cause the loan to be rejected, and bring it to the attention of my
boss, the loan officer. Well, I found the word deceased on one of our applicant's credit report!

The loan got rejected because of that. They had to produce sworn affidavits that they weren't dead.

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Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as old as the bird, and if the
bird's breasts had been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very good dinner."
Anonymous.

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