Television

As I said before, the selection of children's programs were limited. The ones we watched were "Ding Dong School", "Romper Room", "Circus Boy", "Sky King" and of course "Lassie" and "The Mickey Mouse Club". Lynn was a die hard fan of "The Mickey Mouse Club".

My sister, Lynn, enjoyed watching "PickTemple", a western themed program. Lynn would watch the show from her saddle made by putting a blanket and pillow on the arm of an over stuffed chair----giddy up horsy.

The first dance show on T.V. that my family watched was "Lawrence Welk". Once while dancing with my father I clipped him under his chin when I tried to go under his arm. I do not think he thought of me as a very good dance partner----Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire we were not.

When "Roll Out The Barrel" began to play, mother would take Lynn's hand and begin to teach her how to dance to the polka. I am not sure how Lynn felt about that, but I do not think she dances the polka today.

New Year's Eve we would gather around the T.V. to watch the "Guy Lombardo show. We would anticipate the stroke of midnight and hug and kiss each other to bring in the New Year.

There were two teen dance shows that my sister Michele and I would watch. One was a local show, "Milt Grant" and the other was a show out of Philadelphia, "American Band Stand" We learned many a dance step watching that program. My sister, Michele, would dance the "Jitter Bug" with me and she liked to flip me over her back. I guess she thought she was Mickey Rooney and I was Judy Garland.