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Look Back: Sesame Street is 40
Date: 11/10/2009 Album ID: 883035
Photos by Paul Berg and Jim Rackwitz of the Post-Dispatch
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During Sesame Street's first season in 1970, Post-Dispatch photographer Paul Berg visited the New York set. In March 1971, Sesame Street actors Bob (Bob McGrath) and Susan (Loretta Long) visited St. Louis children at the KETC television studios.
Feb. 1970- New York City - Joan Ganz Cooney, executive director of the Children's Television Workshop, introduces Chipper Logan, a visitor to Sesame Street, to Oscar the Grouch. (Oscar was orange for part of the first season until he was changed to green).photo by Paul Berg of the Post-Dispatch
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1970 - NEW YORK - In the candy store on Sesame Street, Will Lee, as Mr. Hooper, tells other members of the cast that he has lost his glasses and can barely see. Mr. Hooper is the owner of the store. Bob McGrath (Bob) is at left. At right are Loretta Long (Susan), and Mattew Robinson (Gordon) intended to suggest that the show can open new worlds for the children. Photo by Paul Berg of the Post-Dispatch Staff
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1970 - NEW YORK - Loretta Long (Susan), and Matthew Robinson (Gordon) always bring Oscar back to reality with sweet reasonableness. They bring the episode to a happy ending when they find Mr. Hooper's glasses in the pail in which the muppet Oscar has been fishing. Photo by Paul Berg of the Post-Dispatch Staff
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1970 - NEW YORK - Members of the production staff of Sesame Street watch with the same enthusiasm as their young television viewers a playback of the puppet sequence. Jim Henson, is seated. To his left are Jon Stone, a writer on the program, and to Stone's left (red sweater) Bob McGrath, who plays Bob onscreen as a neighborhood teacher. Photo by Paul Berg of the Post-Dispatch Staff
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1970 - NEW YORK - Working behind a prop, Jim Henson brings to life Kermit the Frog and Bert. An assistant holds the script. The set simulates an integrated block in a large city. The name Sesame Street derived from Open.Sesame, the magic command of Ali Baba in the Arabian Nights stories. It is intended to suggest that the show can open new worlds for the children. Photo by Paul Berg of the Post-Dispatch Staff
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March 1971 - Sesame Street actors Bob (Bob McGrath) and Susan (Loretta Long) visited St. Louis children at the KETC television studios and put on a several shows which entertained the audience. Photo by Jim Rackwitz of the Post-Dispatch
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March 1971 - Sesame Street actors Bob and Susan visited St. Louis children at the KETC television studios and put on a several shows which entertained the audience. Photo by Jim Rackwitz of the Post-Dispatch
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March 1971 - Sesame Street actors Bob and Susan visited St. Louis children at the KETC television studios and put on a several shows which entertained the audience. Photo by Jim Rackwitz of the Post-Dispatch
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March 1971 - Sesame Street actors Bob and Susan visited St. Louis children at the KETC television studios and put on a several shows which entertained the audience. Photo by Jim Rackwitz of the Post-Dispatch
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March 1971 - Sesame Street actors Bob (Bob McGrath) and Susan (Loretta Long, not pictured) visited St. Louis children at the KETC television studios and put on a several shows which entertained the audience. Photo by Jim Rackwitz of the Post-Dispatch
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March 1971 - Sesame Street actors Bob and Susan visited St. Louis children at the KETC television studios and put on a several shows which entertained the audience. Photo by Jim Rackwitz of the Post-Dispatch
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In March 1971, Sesame Street actors Bob (Bob McGrath) and Susan (Loretta Long) visited St. Louis children at the KETC television studios. Photo by Jim Rackwitz of the Post-Dispatch
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In March 1971, Sesame Street actors Bob (Bob McGrath) and Susan (Loretta Long) , not pictured, visited St. Louis children at the KETC television studios. Photo by Jim Rackwitz of the Post-Dispatch
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