It's Howdy Doody time!

Ethan, I found this video today about toys that children played with when I was a little boy. I recognized almost every one of them:

Everything was different when I was a little boy. It was a simple and sweet time to grow up. We had TV but it wasn't in color... only black and white. At that time in Nashville we only had one station instead of the hundreds of channels available on cable TV today. When I was a little bitty boy (age 3 - 10), my family lived in Nashville, Tennessee. Click here and see the house we lived in.
Early in the fifties there was only one TV station in Nashville - NBC Channel 4. On Saturdays they had a program where local children were on the air playing games and having fun. I was on the "Channel 4 Club" one time and can remember how exciting it was to be on TV. That day I was in a pie eating contest on live TV.
When I was very little - just a little older than you - the TV show that all my friends and I liked was called the "Howdy Doody" Show. It was in black and white and stared a puppet named Howdy Doody. Buffalo Bob was a grownup on the show as well as Clarabell the clown (he couldn't talk so he honked his horn and squirted people with water). Other characters were Princess SummerFallWinterSpring, an Indian Princess and other puppets named Flub-a-dub, Mr. Bluster and Dilly Dally. Here's a clip from one of the shows... it was pretty corny compared to TV shows for kids today but it was a was a wonderful time to grow up. I thank the Lord for letting me grow up then and there:

I hope you are having a wonderful day, little boy... KNOW that your Granddaddy loves you!
I'd love to hear from you, Ethan... my phone number is 931-598-9160.