A year after I was born, Sesame Street was introduced to public television and children's programming was never the same. I remember being pinned to the screen to see Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, Grover, Maria, Mr. Hooper and all the other Sesame Street favorites. I didn't even realize I was learning as I watched these fascinating puppets and people.
Just a short decade ago, I enjoyed Sesame Street all over again with my children. Today Sesame Street celebrates its 40th anniversary. To commemorate this major event, Google is featuring Big Bird on their search page. It was exciting to see one of my fave Sesame Street characters featured on Google! What a fusion of old days and the modern world!
The Huffington Post featured an article showing the cool new Google screen for today. Instead of the traditional primary colored letters, Big Bird's legs are used for the "L". Sesame Street has grown with our children and is now televised in 140 countries!
If you still didn't get enough Sesame Street and Big Bird at Google, the Sesame Workshop released 2 books to celebrate their 40th anniversary and the history of this popular children's program. Check out "Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street" and "A Celebration of 40 Years of Life on the Street."
Do your children watch Sesame Street from the Childrens Televison Workshop? Did you love Sesame Street and Big Bird as a child? Go see one of your favorite faces everytime you Google today.Â
Happy Anniversary Sesame Street - and thanks for making generations of children happy!
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Comments: 19
It was started for the inner city kids so they could have a head start in school like some of the "upper crust" kids had.
Claiming even the poor kids had television.
I always thought it was a great idea, though this program has gotten a lot of grief from (make this politically correct here)........ people who claim it is racist and such.
My mother worked a lot and I really do not remember watching this at home, but at her school before school started, and I was a little older when it came out.....
Oscar the grouch was my favorite! He lived on the street, in a garbage can, if you were homeless and the only thing you had was a garbage you would be a little grouchy too I always thought lol!! This was my first exposure to what I thought at the time as black people and Spanish people in a real type setting. Not in some "tv" drama show. I really liked the Spanish they taught. Made me see that everyone is the same, we may have different color is all.
This show needs more praise then just a educational abc show, but a show at the time back then, on races, and how everyone is basically the same, but may have different cultures and "wrapping". Not sure if they still do the cultural thing or not anymore?? Times have changed.....
Very cool man!
Thanks for sharing this article too Stacey.
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I grew up with Sesame Street and I think it was one of the best TV shows ever made. Big bird and Kermit, Burt and Ernie were all favorites when I was growing up. But I never liked Elmo. The character just seemed pretty poor compared to the others. Yes, my friends, Elmo is boring. Sorry. I know this will offend some of Elmo fans out there but it's the truth. I regularly keep up to date with kids websites such as http://www.DozenKids.com, where Sesamestreet's website was ranked as the top E-Learning. Well deserved.