[Rushmore Rocks]

I am 61 years old. I remember returning to the U.S. after
WWII and watching television for the very first time. We had been living in Germany during the Berlin airlift and post war reconstruction. This must have been 1952...I think.
Our neighbors had a television. We didn't. They invited me over to watch the Howdy Doody Show. What a thrill! Howdy and Princess Summerfallwinterspring really opened my eyes to a new world. After the bleakness and gray ruins of Munich, this was quite a treat. Children's programming has changed so very much over the years. Some of it is good, some of it is deplorable.

I now find myself in what they call the "sandwich generation". I care for my aging parents ( they have an apartment in our basement) and a four month old grandson.
My father, 87 years old and Andrew, my grandson, have recently discovered "Bob the Builder" cartoon. They both love it!!

[gcruse]

I'm the same age as you. My first television experience was on a visit to my grandmother in California. TV was ten years or so away from where we lived in Texas. The show was the Buster Brown Show. I had listened to Buster Brown on the radio in the late forties, along with Space Patrol and Big John & Sparky. But seeing Froggie the Gremlin....that was a revelation.