Country Roads

If you were around as a child when the first television shows came on air, you probably quickly became a regular viewer of “The Howdy Doody Show.” I did not get to watch this show when it came on in 1947. It wasn’t until my parents purchased their first television set in the early 1950s that I began watching it. It captured my interest as it was of a western cowboy and cowgirl’s presentation. The show’s emcee was Bob Smith but his show name was appropriately Buffalo Bob. He was dressed in cowboy fashion. The star of the show was a puppet named Howdy Doody and he too was dressed in western clot...