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I'm so old I remember when a parent (I don't remember who) took several of us kids from the neighborhood to see the Chucko the Clown TV Show be filmed for local TV in Los Angeles. Not Randy Runyon but the original Chucko, Randy's father Charles. They had us on little bleachers in a fairly small room. There were several "minders." I don't remember much else about it, just the bleachers, LOL. I think I was about 5 years old.
Cool! I was hoping a few of the old b&w Chucko shows might be on Youtube now, but I couldn't find any.
I do recall part of his theme song, "Christmas comes just once a year, but I'm here every day!''
Wow, you have a better memory than I do! Thanks for the memory, I had forgotten about that song. I do remember that there were two clowns at the time, the other being Bozo, who was connected to Capitol Records in Hollywood. I searched his, and learned that Willard Scott once played Bozo back in the early 60's. I do recall that there was a kind of rivalry in that kids would say which one was their favorite. He was on KABC and KTTV, while Chucko was only on KTTV. They were both major TV stations at the time, and still are (KTTV is now Fox).
I remember the old 1949 Ford w/a broken radio, that my boyfriend (husband) bought at a junk yard, in 1956. No problem about not having a radio. My boyfriend put a battery between us on the front seat, rigged up some wires, and BINGO....we had loud 50's music! (We just couldn't sit close together in that car).
Wow, you have a better memory than I do! Thanks for the memory, I had forgotten about that song. I do remember that there were two clowns at the time, the other being Bozo, who was connected to Capitol Records in Hollywood. I searched his, and learned that Willard Scott once played Bozo back in the early 60's. I do recall that there was a kind of rivalry in that kids would say which one was their favorite. He was on KABC and KTTV, while Chucko was only on KTTV. They were both major TV stations at the time, and still are (KTTV is now Fox).
Well, you've got a lot of info there that I didn't know... so maybe you've got the better memory.
Another kids' show from that era was "Engineer Bill," with a host who dressed as a locomotive engineer.
Remember when you'd take a canned beverage and punch triangular holes in it? If you couldn't find your "church key" you'd get the can opener, start an arc on either side, then pry with a butter knife. Later with the pull tabs, you'd drop the tab into the slot after opening. Some said you shouldn't do that because you could accidentally drink the pull tab and they aren't always visible with an x-ray. I found this:
About three decades ago, manufacturers began refitting beverage cans with the stay-tabs, after research showed that children were swallowing pull-tabs. One study revealed two cases of accidental ingestion and one case of aspiration after children swallowed pull-tabs that had been dropped into the cans.
That doesn't sound incredibly common. Strangely enough the article also says:
Donnelly and colleagues identified 19 cases of inadvertent stay-tab ingestion at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center from 1993 to 2009.
"If we have 19 cases at one institution, it's probably a much bigger problem nationwide," he says.
The children's ages ranged from 1 to 18 years. "We were surprised that most of them were teenagers," Donnelly says.
Of the 19 cases in the study, only four of the stay-tabs could be spotted on X-rays.
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