Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away...
Do you ever just get so involved with a book that suddenly you've read almost all of it in a couple of days?
I did that this week with the most unlikely of books: "Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street" by Michael Davis.
I'm telling you, this book is fascinating. Now that the show is 40 years old, we all just think of it as a fact of life. (I mean, it had already been on TV for 15 years when I was born!) I never thought about what a bold social experiment it was back in the 1960s.
Plus I just really love reading a book with Oscar the Grouch on the cover.
Now if only I could get the theme song out of my head. "Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?"
Jul 30, 2009 at 10:12 p.m.
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We have a Parker grad(77) that used to work on Sesame Street !!!
Jul 30, 2009 at 5:05 p.m.
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Okay, you *kids*...
I'm older than Sesame Street, and I believe my mother was a genius for knowing enough to sit me down in front of the TV everyday to watch it.
Granted, I think she only did it so she could get a few moments peace, but Kermit the Frog was *my* boyfriend long before Miss Piggy ever came on the scene.
So there.
Jul 30, 2009 at 1:19 p.m.
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When the show first appeared, I was a student at a Beloit grade school that was very diverse racially and economically. Except for a couple of shows such as "Mod Squad" and "Julia," most of us had never watched a show where blacks, Latinos and races other than white were represented. Before "Sesame Street," the only kids I knew that had attended what was then known as "nursery school" were those from wealthy families. "Sesame Street" brought preschool learning beyond "Captain Kangaroo" and "Rumper Room" into the homes of all young children. When it first appeared, I was 11 or 12 and beyond it's target audience. However, because of the reaction the show got from all media, I was well aware of its positive impact on the public. Plus, my little brother loved it!
Jul 30, 2009 at 1:12 p.m.
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I used to have a coffee table book called "Sesame Street Unpaved" with a lot of behind the scenes information. It also had lyrics to songs like "Ladybug Picnic" that you subconsciously know by heart.
Jul 30, 2009 at 11:49 a.m.
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I was in grade school when the show came out, and I thought it was just another part of the hippie revolution (I thought that in grade school?). My brother watched it so I know all the songs, and all the muppets, and everything else until about mid '70s. But I want a sunny day with the clouds swept away. Will summer ever get here? it's 59ยบ F now.
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