A Continuing Stroll Down Memory Lane ...

I'm not even sure HOW you can begin to describe the impact this man and his programme had on GENERATIONS of Canadians ... Mr Dressup was a friend and a contemporary of Mr. Rogers, and they began together back in the US ...
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Fred stayed in the States and became a Cultural Icon, while Ernie moved North and became a Canadian Icon and Institution ... It takes about three plunks of the piano notes of the opening theme music to carry EVERY child raised in Canada over the last 40 years back to a place where we were can remember ourselves plunked in front of a flickering tv screen watching Mr Dressup, Casey, Finegan, The Tickle Trunk, and the other assorted characters that came and went. Thousands upon thousands of us spent a half an hour being entertained, informed and educated in the shadow of the Treehouse ...
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Personally though, I LOVED Finegan (the Dog), but found Casey a tad annoying ... I still miss them ALL though:
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