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wnylib

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42. Howdy Doody for me, too.

Reply to yellowdogintexas (Reply #18)

Fri Mar 20, 2026, 08:21 PM

Mar 20

Some families did not have TVs yet at the time. So neighborhood kids came to our house to watch. We sat on the floor, and my mother brought us snacks.

The TV was a floor model with a small screen that took up about only one quarter of the whole TV. Only black and white, of course.

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