Originally Posted by
MTBLover
I forgot to add this to my list- if you were in the Philly area in the 50s, had access to a Philco or Dumont (and if you don't know what these were, you're too young...) you'd probably remember the little guy in my avatar. Here's a quiz for you Philly kids (notice that I didn't spell it "kidz" thereby proving that I'm old enough to be in 50+
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1. Can you name him?
2. How about the host of the TV show- what was his name?
I was going to mention your avatar when I noticed it in another thread. Pretty much every Philly kid from then should be able to name Bertie the Bunyip and ? Dexter...was it Lee Dexter? There were a bunch of local hosts in those days...Pete Boyle, Wee Willie Weber, Happy the Clown, Gene London...and the most famous:
I remember when Dick Clark hosted Bandstand from west Philly.