![]() ![]() “She just saw the good in everything and trusted everyone, even when she probably shouldn’t have. In Minneapolis, Romper Room was first broadcast on WTCN in the mid-fifties, and later on KMSP in the sixties. The theme for the show was Pop Goes the Weasel and often featured a Romper Room jack-in-the-box. “She brought sunshine wherever she went,” Del Rosario said. The host had a magic mirror and would look through it and call out to children watching at home. Sometimes people who saw her on the show sought her out at home. Del Rosario made the decision because of a string of break-ins and her mother’s trusting personality. King moved from her home in Hacienda Heights to the Oakmont of Chino Hills senior community in 2015. Officials later decided to offer the program without accepting a $30,000 grant from China. In 2010, she fought against the controversial implementation of a Confucius Classroom, sponsored by the Chinese government, at a middle school in Hacienda La Puente Unified School District. King was a lifelong advocate for education. She took the job after school officials told her “if you think you can do better, come and do it,” when she complained about one of her daughters’ classes. “In her words, that was the end of the rainbow, where the dream was,” her daughter said.Īfter “Romper Room,” she went deeper into education, teaching as part of a regional occupation program that helped high school students learn technical skills. She appeared in advertisements and talk shows in Texas and Kansas, until she was asked to come to Hollywood to host “Romper Room.” But when an actress couldn’t nail the lines, she stepped in and impressed the producers, Del Rosario said. Originally from Oklahoma, King wrote commercials before she ever appeared in one. “She set the bar high for all ‘Romper Room’ teachers, and like all of her much younger students, I always wanted her to be proud of me.” “She was just so important in the lives of so many little kids,” Serrano said. While studying education in college, Serrano looked at King as a role model. ![]() It was the first time the two hosts sat together, Serrano said. “That was my little way of encouraging her and respecting her. “She really is the one that most people remember with her beautiful red hair and her lady-like demeanor and her sweet voice,” Serrano said. She presented it to King on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Socorro Serrano, who hosted “Romper Room” as “Miss Soco” from 1975 to 1990, dug out her Magic Mirror after learning of the theft. In 2003, a mugger snatched King’s bags, including one containing her Magic Mirror. The Romper Room host looked into the Magic Mirror and recited a famous rhyme for six years and was the last to host the 20-year long children’s program out of the old WTOC station on Abercorn Street. Her family said she passed away this week. Magic Mirror, tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play?” the host asked. (WTOC) - WTOC is remembering Miss Kay Lisicia. “Romper, bomper, stomper, boo, tell me, tell me, tell me do. So when I watched it yesterday, I felt that the bit at the end when the hostess looks through a ‘magic mirror’ and reads out names of children very freaky!Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.On the show, she taught children how to behave - and how not to behave - with the help of “Do Bee” and “Don’t Bee.” She closed off each show with her Magic Mirror at the end to read off the first names of children watching, many of them submitted by their parents. Did all my friends have fun at play' With the chant spoken, the Romper Room hostess gazed through the empty mirror frame and recited the names of the lucky children whom she pretended to see watching the program (a different list of names each day). ) I honestly don’t remember watching Romper Room as a kid even though I know that such a show existed and that the Mr Do Bee mascot is a bee. Good thing I didn’t watch this before we got married or I would have reconsidered. He was not very gentlemanly on the show and would rush to sit down instead of giving way to the girls and would also grab whatever musical instrument caught his eye even if some girl wanted it. ![]() In the National Day episode, each kid brought along a toy and he brought some transforming thing which he took a really long time to transform and then said, “It’s kinda hard…” The kids had to play instruments and march around like in a parade and I nearly collapsed from laughing at a scene where he was trying to put on a cap which was too small for his already-gigantic head. For both episodes, Adrian was dressed (according to his mother, fashionably) in tight white shorts and knee-high socks. His parents just got the very old video converted to DVD so we were all watching it yesterday. Well, 27 years ago, a certain Adrian Wee went on two episodes of Romper Room, one of which was a National Day episode. People who are above a certain age would remember a children’s TV series called Romper Room. ![]()
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