by Star*Hopper » Sun May 22, 2011 10:47 am
Honestly, WinkyDink is where I learned that wet rawhide stretches -- that's perhaps the most prominent memory I carry of the show. Yep - captured by Indians, they had him all tied up & whilst preparing some nefarious prelude to Winky's demise, I drew the requisite bucket wherein he placed his bindings & was able to slip free & escape. Where the water in the bucket came from I'll never know....(there was a LOT of magic involved *LOL*) but I felt like I had single-handedly saved Wink & hence, the show.
Another piece of historical trivia....WinkyDink technology may well have led to the first color TVs - did y'all know that? Yep.....Dad showed up one day with another type of 'Magic Screen' - same type of plastic as Winky's, except it had 3 horizontal semitransparent stripes; blue across the top (sky), green bottom (grass), & a sickly-red across the middle for?....flesh, natch! We were 'first-on-our-block' to have one, & neighbors used to flock to our house to watch 'color tv'....thought it was the greatest thing since [
insert metaphor of choice here].
Yes, the 50's were confusing times....& apparently, folks were easily entertained.
Or perhaps the word should be, 'distracted'. (A key ingredient for
'magic', don'tcha know.)
Honestly, WinkyDink is where I learned that wet rawhide stretches -- that's perhaps the most prominent memory I carry of the show. Yep - captured by Indians, they had him all tied up & whilst preparing some nefarious prelude to Winky's demise, I drew the requisite bucket wherein he placed his bindings & was able to slip free & escape. Where the water in the bucket came from I'll never know....(there was a LOT of magic involved *LOL*) but I felt like I had single-handedly saved Wink & hence, the show.
Another piece of historical trivia....WinkyDink technology may well have led to the first color TVs - did y'all know that? Yep.....Dad showed up one day with another type of 'Magic Screen' - same type of plastic as Winky's, except it had 3 horizontal semitransparent stripes; blue across the top (sky), green bottom (grass), & a sickly-red across the middle for?....flesh, natch! We were 'first-on-our-block' to have one, & neighbors used to flock to our house to watch 'color tv'....thought it was the greatest thing since [[i]insert metaphor of choice here[/i]]. :wink:
Yes, the 50's were confusing times....& apparently, folks were easily entertained.
Or perhaps the word should be, 'distracted'. (A key ingredient for [i]'magic'[/i], don'tcha know.)
:mrgreen: