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Camping with Bert and Ernie

As weird as this set seems, my kids have a modern version if this that’s almost entirely the same except Elmo is now crowbarred in there. Bert looks totally at home on a chopper, I should have known he was an outlaw biker.

One Night Only

It’s the “Three Neat Guys” and they’ll be singing all your grandparents favourite songs, act now, tickets are going fast!Warning: The First Three Rows will get rocked!Today, I’ve got a cool one, it’s from my Megomuseum co-hort (and the site’s founder) Scott Adams and it’s all about his obsession with Sesame Street Finger Puppets.World’s Greatest […]

A Piece of Personal History

I found these wicked Bert and Ernie napkins rummaging through a box at my parents house, they’re from my fifth birthday party. To think, my mom almost threw these important pieces of “Brianana” away…

Some Finger Puppet Love

Card #14 goes out to my pal Scott Adams. Scott and I work on the Megomuseum and this is his other obsession, Child Guidance Sesame Street Finger Puppets. Scott asked me a couple of weeks before this how I felt about doing a card like this and me being a Sesame Street nut, it was […]

Zayre Toy Circular from 1975

It’s hard to find vintage newspaper toy circulars, most people threw them out five minutes after reading. That’s a shame because they are such a neat and attractive way to see pop culture history. That’s why this toy circular from the Zayre stores is one of my favourites, first I was five years old when […]

Play-Doh + Bert and Ernie = Goodness

I must have missed a meeting in the seventies, I had no idea there was a Sesame Street Play Doh set. This is all kinds of awesome and I’d like to send a set back in time to the four year old me. Right after I sent myself back in time for some shopping that […]

1978 Child Guidance Sesame Street Catalog

Wrapping up Sesame Street week the only way I know how, with another catalog. Child Guidance was one of the bigger producers of Sesame Street Merchandising in the 1970’s, at this point they were a division of Gabriel (makers of the cool Lone Ranger line of toys) but eventually would become part of the Azrak […]

Rainy Day on the Street

True Story, my mother bought me this rain coat, although it was blue. I was eight and the one time I wore it home I kept thinking “My mom is having problems with me getting older”. I’m lucky none of my buddies who were busy with grown up things such as KISS records saw me. […]

Sesame Street Playsets

I’m sure most people recognize the Sesame Street Clubhouse from Fisher Price but I’ve never seen the cardboard playset before. It makes Sesame Street look more like Mayberry than the urban setting it was, what’s with all the grass and trees? I still my own talking Ernie (he’s not as minty as the one featured […]