Comments on: Art Linkletter’s House Party, a bygone era? http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/02/artlinkletter.html A dad's eye view of baby and toddler stuff Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:34:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Roshan L. Sharma http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/02/artlinkletter.html/comment-page-1#comment-31699 Roshan L. Sharma Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:09:22 +0000 http://www.thingamababy.com/?p=2418#comment-31699 I was a contestant during a 1954 Art Linkletter House Party on a summer Friday. I was declared a winner as the 'Visitor from the Farthest Land' not only for the day but also for the whole week and won prizes. My segment was at least 5 minutes. Can I procure a DD copy of my segment? I was a contestant during a 1954 Art Linkletter House Party on a summer Friday. I was declared a winner as the ‘Visitor from the Farthest Land’ not only for the day but also for the whole week and won prizes. My segment was at least 5 minutes. Can I procure a DD copy of my segment?

]]> By: Auntie M http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/02/artlinkletter.html/comment-page-1#comment-15104 Auntie M Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:56:07 +0000 http://www.thingamababy.com/?p=2418#comment-15104 OMG! I watched Linkletter when I was a teenager. The kids' interview was the best part of his show. You could tell that most of the children's answers were previewed, but every so often the kids slipped in an unexpected zinger. The most common age was four. Like Little Miss, one was never certain what was going to come out of their mouths. This was the 50's of course, so there was a veneer of innocence in the culture. Most of us knew what was appropriate to say, or not. This rubbed off on those four-year-olds. Linkletter knew to choose families who kept to the cultural norm. Our society is awash in rude language and behavior now. But, I think there are still some of those families who try to shield their children from the ruder, cruder language and behavior of present-day culture. OMG! I watched Linkletter when I was a teenager. The kids’ interview was the best part of his show. You could tell that most of the children’s answers were previewed, but every so often the kids slipped in an unexpected zinger. The most common age was four. Like Little Miss, one was never certain what was going to come out of their mouths.

This was the 50’s of course, so there was a veneer of innocence in the culture. Most of us knew what was appropriate to say, or not. This rubbed off on those four-year-olds. Linkletter knew to choose families who kept to the cultural norm. Our society is awash in rude language and behavior now. But, I think there are still some of those families who try to shield their children from the ruder, cruder language and behavior of present-day culture.

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