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SHREVEPORT, La. — Long before Miss Rachel, Barney, or even Sesame Street, KTBS brought the magic of children’s programming to local viewers with a show called Romper Room. Airing in the late 1950s and ...
FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina-- By today's computer-generated, HD-animated standards, "Romper Room" seems pretty tame stuff for kids. Just a show with a cute hostess, puppets and parades, and a "magic ...
For baby boomers who were children in the 1960s and 1970s, the set of the "Romper Room" television show on WDEF-TV 12 brings back vivid memories. Mark Kennedy is a veteran columnist. His human ...
Jean Durkee was a schoolteacher, and happily so, in the late 1950s when her mother saw a newspaper advertisement for a host of a children’s TV show and suggested she apply. “You’ve got to be kidding ...
Please join us as Peggy Cooper, local host of the 1960s national children’s program Romper Room (seen on Tulsa’s Channel 8) discusses her role as host. The Tulsa Historical Society recently opened a ...
When working with groups of four- and five-year-olds on the set of the kids TV show “Romper Room,” things didn’t always go according to plan. LA host Socoro Serrano shares stories of some of the funny ...
SAGINAW, MI-- Her children thought she had magical powers. Her students were mesmerized each learning day. And kids across the Saginaw area, from Flint to Bay City, tuned in weekly to Channel 57 WKNX ...
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Great piece about Ricki Wertz’s career in ...
Arizona Cardinals running backs coach Autry Denson is one of only six position coaches on the staff that are at least 40-years-old. For the record, they are defensive line coach Derrick LeBlanc (50), ...