As a child, I was absolutely HORRIFIED by Hobo Kelly. I used to hide behind the furniture and tell my siblings that "Hobo Kelly's gonna git you!" As I look at her now, I think it might have been related to the sinister looking eyebrow paint. They look angry. I still have a bit of fear of clowns and mimes, and it's probably all related. Still, a wonderful children's show and we could use more of those these days.
continued from below.... I even commented on his portrait of Mary Pickfords husband. He said thats Sally, thats the misses. I laughed and smiled and even though Hobo Kelly wasn't at home, i still saw a lot of the past and was in awe about the many memories of their life hanging on the walls. They had ...I think 6 Emmys awards on the fire place that Walt had won...WOW i thought id never see real Emmy before. Good people they are...He gave me a beverage, then told me to take out his trash. HA
i just found sally baker today. She is living in boise idaho. I was helping my brother clean homes, cuz thats what he does and he said we are going over to the Bakers. When i walk in Mr. Baker was there, "Call me Walt" he said. Nice guy and then i saw all his photos on the walls of famous actors and actresses of the past. I saw on the wall many photos of Hobo Kelly and said "I know her." He said "how your like 29 years old?" I laughed and told him i know a lot about film.
oh lawdddd hahaha havnt reached 50 yet but daaaaumn lmaooooo i remember her too wtf? i remember my big brother singing that song lifting me up while he was lying on his back .. my stomach was on his feet and he was holding my hands pretending.. that i was flying in the air and he dropped my ass lmao
Looking back on it...I think that hobo is why am a hobo, accessing this from a public library. It must have been the wrong message. Damn clowns, pisses me off.
When I was 6 my friend and I drove our bikes 3 miles from Canoga Park to the McDonald's on Sherman Way in Reseda to see Hobo Kelly. When we got there she was already gone. So bummed. I remember her big Glasses!
Didn't she used to have some kind of psychedelic magic front loading dryer where she would open the door and wish happy birthday to kids who sent her their names? She would say something like: "I can see Bobby and Tommy and Mary and Steven. Billy and Tony and Wally and Brian".....etc, etc
What a way of meeting people and get to see their talent. At first was reluctant being on youtube, but getting to do this has brought me into the houses of some very special people. You are one of them. Life; isn't it wonderful!!! Keep up the good work. Have A Splendid Day!!!!
I thought I was the only person who remembered this show. younger people think I am nuts when I try to explain the show to them.
The things I remember most about the show was Hobo Kelly wearing giant oversized sunglasses and selling Flicks candy. I was like 5 at the time.
too bad TV has evolved to a point where programs like this are no longer made. And I miss Tom Hacket on KTLA doing the Popeye cartoons on the weekends and hosting the Family film festival.
I am 49 and will very soon be 50. I remember hobo kelly like it was yesterday. I always use to want her to call out my name. HA HA HA so funny now! I just went back to my childhood,Damn!! winchell Mahoney,gigantor,billy barty, bozo, felix the cat, gumby,Man I need to stop now cause this list can go on and on. I dont know what this crap is these kids are watching today!!!
I remember Hobo Kelly in the '60's too from Hobo Junction,Isn't Hobo Junction, the poor side of Bakersfield,California?, Buck Owens did a song about the city. I like to see Hobo Kelly dine at J's Place Restaurant in Bakersfield.Any fan of the city of Bakersfield is a fan & friend of Hobo Kelly, like me.I been to Bakersfield a few times.
I'm 52 and I remember when Hobo Kelly looked through her magical glasses, (Those big, giant, clown sunglasses) and said my name. then she told me where she saw my birthday present hiding. It was my 6th birthday!
Oh yes...Hobo Kelly and those huge sun glasses, pitching Hoffy hotdogs and then it was....."cartoon hoooooooooooo!!! And you can't leave out, Sheriff John
47 here i was a little boy and i remember being at the Hunting park parade and she came by and i ran up to her to shake her hand she was so cool. But for you all lets see if any one remembers this (the kaleidoscope).
Hobo Kelly you are truly one of the last of the last of the Mohican's and
NO ONE WILL WILL EVER TAKE TAKE YOUR PLACE. i'M GLADE you were in my life.
I am also 50 yrs. old and remember watching this. How about that toy machine that was on the show. Looked like a big mouth. She drew a name of a boy or girl that was watching the show and she cranked the handle kicked the side of it and all the toys came out. Thats what I remember most........
Wow, an article in Portland Oregon about an old local host there named Tarantula Ghoul made me remember Hobo Kelly in my youth ( I'm now 47) in the San Fernando Valley (Canoga Park) in the 60's. Good memories! I also watched the show Wonderama and it all brings back great memories of California.
Ah! I looked for Hobo Kelly on YouTube a few years back without success and thought I was one of few who remembered her. No one I have ever spoken to since way back when has heard of her. Nice to see all of you "kids" still remember too. I'm pushing 50 now. I watched from Sierra Madre, Ca in the mid to late 60's. Used to have to run down the street to watch Batman "IN COLOR" on the "rich" family's TV set. Haha. Much more simple times then. Thanks all for the good memories!
I used to watch Hobo Kelly when I was a little girl. I'll be 50 next year. Every one seems to be getting malencaly for the old days when America was America. I don't know what has happened to the country I was born in, but this place sure isn't it.
@mammal46 The 60's was about Hope, and with some innocence left over from the 50's. The 70's were toned down and still pleasant, but a transition to excess, stupidity, & self-centerednesss of the 80's. The rise and decline of any culture is normal, but we have continued on a sharp decline, and lost control. The Media is owned by General Electric etc., and fed to us, our covert agencies running our country enjoy our descent; makes it easier to control us. We consume & export filth. NEVER RECOVER.
@supersuperrich True, but things had to happen this way. America had to decline for Europe to grow. We are in the end days my friend, and the only thing that matters is if you have JESUS. Do you have JESUS?
@mammal46 Let's be honest and admit, we look back at the "good old days" but fail to acknowledge the 1965 Immigration Act and other associated programs of the 60's which transformed a beautiful and productive America into the diverse and multicultural hellhole it is today.
@mammal46 I will be 50 this year. The last of the baby boomers do get melancholy for her! Do you remember "pixie-ann" and "baby daphnie" who moved into the spin-off trail after the commercial acceptance of femme-comedy aimed at primary school age kids? also see diver dan, sheriff john, wonderama, banana splits, bozo, batman, and the beatles.
@dynagravitomagnetic The only ones I know of from your list is Bozo and Batman both of whom I used to watch. I even had Batman shoes when I was a kid. Of course I've heard of the Beatles but I hate them. Not their music but their pius attitude they got after getting popular and rich.
@mammal46 Thank you for the kind reply. Hobo kelly was amusing, but there is very little archive. The beatles were supported by the English government because of tax revenues. There are things about them that remain secret. Paul had been killed, and this was covered up. The paul we have today is most likely William campbell shepherd, of the band "the pepper pots". They did kind of have an attitude.
I remember Hobo Kelly on KCOP Channel 13 around 1969-1970. Gumby was also on this channel.
KTTV Channel 11 had the Merry Melodies/Looney Tunes, while KHJ-TV Channel 9 had many of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons that you can now find on Boomerang.
The Adventures of Tin Tin were also shown on this channel.
Besides Hobo Kelly and Bozo, most of the cartoon TV hosts had been shelved by the time I can remember watching these shows.
This really hit my heart. As a kid in Los Angeles in the mid sixties, I watched her everyday and loved her. I actually use to look outside in the sky thinking I'd see her. Oh! to be so innocent again and to be back in those days. I miss my Dad so much and Grandparents too.
How I longed for my name to be drawn, which it never was. I always wondered how they could sneek in and hide the toy. Finally, I learned that the studio made arrangements with the parents, and delivered the prize, while the child was not home, and the mother or father hid it under the bed.
I can only wish to find this on DVD or something. 2 years ago, I searched for a long time, but this one clip is the only showing I could find. Any other stories from those of you who grew up in L.A.?
Wow, such wonderful memories. I grew up in the Southland, as did many children. I clearly remember, that fairly regularly, Hobo Kelly would draw a name from a hat or something, and announce that a certain boy or girl won a very expensive toy, not just like a board game or a doll, but something very special. Then she would say, "Now, Sammy, (or whoever the child was), go look under your bed for this gift, since we at the Studios, secretly came to your house and hid the toy for you!"
Somewhere out there there has to be more than this often repeated short clip of Hobo Kelly. C'mon you folks who worked at KCOP, they coudn't possibly have wiped all of these. I want a whole episode with Mr. Inside Man, and the butterfly pen she painted with and her friend seymour whose mother always yelled from the car. There simply has to be more than this.
I would like to see a little bit of the show again. Someone has recently posted a generous montage from the "bozo's big top", and I feel grand about thaat. - Shur an be gurrr!
Nice to remember the good old days as a kid in L.A. if someone has footage of the machine that made toys out of trash, back then I thought it was for real, kids today are much more smart and can{t fool them that easy. thanks for the memories.
Does anyone know how I can find an image of the bird Kookoola? I don't know if that's how it's spelled but it was the bird that brought the mail. I just want to see it cause a friend just told me about it.
Memories of southern California back in the day. LA only had two are codes back then. I think it was broadcast on KTLA or KCOP. Seymour and the slimy wall from Fright Night was my favorite. We thought we were lucky to have 7 channels because two hours out of LA in any direction would only give you around two or three.
Sally Baker did Hobo Kelly and in the 80's did a syndicated series called "The Land of Frooze" which was positively awful, as if it were possible to be more nausiating than Hobo Kelly.
I onced talked with a guy that worked with her on "Hobo" and he said she was a pain in the ass to work with.
She also did a documentary on the Irish Republican Army. Yes, she really was Irish.
Her show originated in LA and references were often made about local cities here when she'd read letters.
This is from when being a hobo didn't carry the stigma it does now. Is there an episode where some youths pay hobo Kelly to beat up another hobo on video?
I remember when KPTV in Portland, OR carried this every day. They would show Hobo Kelly, then Rusty Nails. I also remember her being on What's My Line as a contestant.
Does anyone have footage of Hobo Kelly making birthday presents. Taking trash and putting it into the large machine that made toys from banana peals etc.
They would show that followed by another sign off clip with Ray Charles singing America the Beautiful. "And while with silent lifting mind, I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put up my hand, and touched the face of God."
Ah, life before infomercials. It's 2:00am go to bed!
i remember high flight too. on our ABC station in los angeles it was followed by a keyboard version of the national anthem. on nights when my crazy friend was over watching friday night videos etc. when high flight would come on he would recite along with it (he'd be pretty high himself by then!) getting progressively louder. by the end he was yelling "....TOUCHED THE FACE OF GOD!!!". i'm sure the neighbors heard him. i thought it was funny that he'd memorized it after so many viewings.
Thankyou puppyjesus69 for your comments.I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one watching.Hey,anyone who tries to wrap himself up in two large pieces of bread can't be all that bad,right? As far as warping young minds,well I'd rather have the Ghoul warp my head and not the stuff kids are following today! And does anyone remember Serendipity? Wasn't classical gas played as the credits rolled??
Does anyone remember a show called ''The Ghoul''? it was on in the early 70's around 5p.m. on a Corona channel 52. He showed 3 Stooges and did korny stuff in between. One of his stunts was to put himself between 2 large pieces of bread while a song called ''Bread and Butter'' was played.
He was great. Very warped stuff for young minds. Sinister Seymour on Fright Night was great too. There was a Japanese Samurai show that came on after The Ghoul called Lion Maru. Dudes turning into manimals and fighting ninja skeletons. Wonderful shit.
Hey dummy if you read my post carefully you will realize that i dislike the liberal media and knowing how these sicko phants promote homosexuality they are most likely to ruin the good nature show hobo kelly with with a twisted version called homo kelly.
@JacksonPerdue Oh dude, did you grow up in Los Angeles too? I use to watch all the same programs you mentioned. Loved that little feller Billy Barty and Sheriff John's lunch brigade. Hey, do you remember Ben Hunter's show in the noon hour?
@OldMrMemories yes, i lived in Boyle Heights too in 64-65. went to Sheridan Street Elementary and lived right next to the Varietys Boys Club on Cinncinnati St. Practically LIVED in the Boys Club
@JacksonPerdue Who could imagine" the internet" today being your link as an autonomous component of world government to the artificial intelligence proxy? - Look up the movie "zeitgeist" and the venus project. I love hobo kelly and all the concurrent shows you mention too.
I am now 50 years old but I would watch this show before heading off to kindergarten when we lived in Glendale, CA. Hobo Kelly would put her 'BITS & PIECES" into the big box and turn the handle and a toy would come out. Such great childhood memories!
In LA in the early 70's --you could get all of the local channels via antenna, plus some UHF channels like Channel 52.- it had Speed Racer, Felix the Cat, Outer Limits, etc. My mom hated it because I always watched the 3 Stooges on Channel 52. I'm 45 now, and I get all of the classic Stooges shorts from Netflix, and my kids love it. That the 3 Stooges shorts from the 40's and 50's can elicit belly laughs from today's grade schoolers is why they were the best.
spongerot: Bless you! I'm 44 and I was HOOKED on channel 52 as a 2nd/3rd grader! Don't forget Kimba the White Lion cartoon! I STILL almost pee in my pants when I watch the Three Stooges, especially Shemp. I don't know why I thought he was so funny. My sister bought me the Speed Racer DVD a few years ago. Priceless stuff. The young'uns just don't understand, do they? What were the station letters, do you remember? I also loved KOCE channel 50 when they would show the Electric Company.
@jgc760 Sweet! I thought those were the letters but wasn't sure. Thank you for that. I remember the Elvis Presley album commercials. Those were some real good salad days. I was around 4 or 5 when Hobo Kelly used to come on. My little soul couldn't understand why she dressed so shabbily. I was more into "Romper Room."
@JohnMLMoore Um...I've been trying to recall it but I just can't remember that commercial. I do remember commercials for the "Toss Across" and "Connect Four" games!
@prpleambi Do you remember seeing "The Ghoul Gang" on 52 in the mid-70s? It was with the crazy dude who wore outlandish clothes and would show Little Rascals films and comment on them. It wasn't on that long. In fact, it really wasn't that good as I remember. I think that's when I got heavily into the "Brady Bunch" reruns!
@JohnMLMoore The glasses, yes! I think he had a goatee as well. You're right, the show got clipped very early on. Thanks for co-signing...I thought my memory was failing me!
OMG! I never thought I'd see this again! My family was living in southern Cal in the late '60s and me and my little brother used to watch Hobo kelly. I was 7 and my brother was 4.
I cant believ this!!!Hobo Kelly I actually won on this show ,she would callakids name from some leteers that were sent, the toys would copme out of this big box i think, and the next ay at schol some of my friends told me they heard my name on the t.v - this is Los Angeles, Im 50 yrs old so that gives anidea of how long a go, I can't believ this!!!!
@Mrdshigg Wow! That was great! I always hoped my name would be selected, but it never was. Do you remember what your prize was? It must have been great, all your friends must have thought you were great.
HOBO KELLY first aired in color on KTTV-TV Channel 11 in 1965 from 7:30-9:00 AM and later on KCOP-TV Channel 13 in Los Angeles in 1971 as well as KPTV channel 12 in Portland and WTCN-TV in Minneapolis. It was later rerun on Channel 52 in the 70s.
I was on the Hobo Kelly show when I was a kid. I got a bunch of prizes but I only remember the tootsie roll bank filled with tootsies and of course a autographed pic of hobo kelly.
It was on KTLA I believe, I loved this show with the Majic Glasses and that Toy machine. She dumped in those bits and pieces and cranked that handle. I still sing that jingle once in a while.
d.u.m.b. stands for deep underground military base scott. look up "Phillip Schneider" for more information on that. He was an outspoken critic & informer with inside information. The JFK asasn by Bush family is also insider track only. The uninformed are often shocked by the info, pay it no heed. I will not bother to explain. I used to love watching Sally Baker as hobo kelly when I was a wee tot. I did not know she was in the froozles because when I started the third grade I found new interests.
I remember the old sheriff john, hobo kelly, engineer bill, bozo the clown, and the space launches of the mercury, gemini and saturn apollo missions. The USA was first intended by the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations to operate on a space technology colonization imperative to provide economic stimulus by decentralization of production. The Bush family took over the intelligence community and changed us to a war based economy for the congressional military industrial complex after JFK asasn
I'm living in Hobo Kelly's old house in Lake Arrowhead, California! We bought the house from her, and she left a bunch of stuff (clown paintings, four leaf clovers and other magical items) in the storage basement, and we inherited all of it! Her clown spirits are still in this house, and very welcome here!
I remember this on KTTV channel 11 and then it moved to KCOP channel 13, in LA, after the green hornet she was my favorite. I used to love this broad when I was 5&6 then I graduated to Kimba the White lion and Speed Racer on uhf.
channel 51.....Dont forget the TheThree Stooges and the Adams Family. uhf was the bomb, as long as you knew how to work those cursed rabbit ears. Sometimes I had to hold them with one hand and stand on one foot just to get decent reception, and then try to lower my foot slowly, thinking I could fool the tv, but it never worked.
Close, but it was Channel 52! Later 52 was purchased by the over the air Pay TV Service,"ON TV". Remember the scrambled pictures? We used to build the descramblers in my High School Electronics Class. Cartooooon Hooooo!
That was on Ch 52 ! You forgot the 3 Stooges and the Little Rascals also. Who could forget that UHF stations. I remember climbing on the roof to twist the antenna to get a good reception. Too funny.
Thanks for sharing this! As every child who grew up in metro Los Angeles at this time remembers, the magic machine where nuts, bolts and garbage was thrown in, only to emerge as toys! Can anyone find a clip of THAT?!!!
I used to love this show. I met her once in LA at a KCET fund-raiser when I was about 6 (1971 I think), and she was very sweet. We had a lot of good kids TV in those days with Hobo, the early days of Sesame Street and Electric Company, and KBSC channel 52.
My Dad was a Manager for the Shopping Bag store in La Crescenta , California and when they opened the new store there he hired Hobo Kelly for the grand opening , My Mom took me and my brother and sisters and Hobo Kelly was drunk off her ass and when she came out to say hello to hundreds of kids the first thing she said was "how the f%^K are all of you little bastards.....Dad fired her.....
all right, i did too! i lived off of cherry and poppy st. and grew up watching this...i always wished i could make trash int to toys as a kid....small world, did you watch wonderama?
No - that must have been a local (Long Beach) show. I didn't watch a lot of TV out there. There was one other animated show I watched but I can't remember what it was -- too many drugs in the 70's!
gotcha....im 50 now and bartended in belmont shore in the 80s so i am more than aware of what you be sayin man....by the way i enjoyed my high school years in the 70s growin up in southern michigan. graduated in 77....can you imagine doin the shrooms to movies like the lord of the rings now? shit i aint got the stones for that anymore,,lol
I grew up in LA, and I wanted to go to the Bozo the Clown show, but my mom got me in to see The Billy Barty show. I was onscreen very briefly, and it was weird. I would have rather been at the Hobo Kelly Show.
I loved Hobo Kelly. I even wrote her a letter so I could win the toys, however I didn't know anything about the postal service and forgot to put a stamp on the letter. I still think she can see me through her magic glasses. And don't forget buttercup
It's a shame that there is almost no recordings of the Hobo Kelly show. Most of it was live TV and was not saved to tape for the future. Retro fans who grew up in LA in the 60s remember her well!
omg blast from the past.I sent a post card in with my name on it.I never did recover from Hobo Kelly not picking my name and announcing it on national TV. Thanks for nothing Hobo.
You ruined a young girls life!!
(Just kidding but it would have been exciting!!)You 60's kids know what I am talking about!!!
WOW!! i watched hobo kelly when i was 6 yrs old and i remember it like it was yesterday,i have told my friends about her and they never heard of her, was she just on in the so. cal area?what memories, i sent in my name for her to pick to get toys from that machine box thing she did pick my name and i was sooo excited but all that came out of the box was an autographed picture of her, i wish i still had it. please post more if you find any.
I am so happy to see this again! ^__^ Suddenly, it's the late Sixties again, and I'm 8 years old and just discovering the delights of cable tv. Dang, I really miss shows like this. Thanks for the sweet memory!
omg i loved this show and i hope thay can poit her show's on youtube i would see tham every day !!!! if you now any one that bout the DVD pleace pleace till tham to record it and poit it on youtube so many people would be so happy to see it agin (i now i would)!!!!!!!!
I loved Hobo Kelly. I can't remember completely, but she used to put garbage into what looked like a front loading dryer and toys would come out after it spun around. She would pick a name and they would get the toys! I always wanted her to pick me, but i didn't know that you had to send your name into the show. I can't convince anyone that Hobo Kelly was a real person. what wonderful memories.
Wow, Hobo Kelly is one of my oldest memories. I watched her when I was 2 and 3yrs old back in 1969/70. My tv was black and white so this is the first time I've seen her in color.
For years I've been telling people I used to watch Hobo Kelly as a kid... no one heard of her! Now I can tell them to look for her here! Yea!!!.. I'm not crazy.. .yet! *lol*
wow, what memories, I was really little, but always remembered her. Its amazing how cheesy it looks now, but back then, you really entered that world of Hobo Kelly. Didn't she look through a magic hoop too see the kids in TV land? Everyone says its glasses. Maybe I remembered that wrong. I do remember: "and I see Timmy, and Bobby, and Jenny, and Michael, and Jimmy" When she said my name I screamed back "HI HOBO KELLY!!!!!" I was so excited that she finally saw me! Good times, good times!
You are thinking of Romper Room. From Wikipedia: "At the end of each broadcast, the hostess would look through a "magic mirror" (in reality, a face-sized open hoop with a handle) and name the children she saw in "televisionland."
As a child, I was absolutely HORRIFIED by Hobo Kelly. I used to hide behind the furniture and tell my siblings that "Hobo Kelly's gonna git you!" As I look at her now, I think it might have been related to the sinister looking eyebrow paint. They look angry. I still have a bit of fear of clowns and mimes, and it's probably all related. Still, a wonderful children's show and we could use more of those these days.
Sheldonwh 4 days ago
hobos love our library. they hang out there all freaking day long. but do they pay taxes to support it? hells no!
seizetheweakened 2 months ago
Sally Baker was Hobo Kelly
lohphat 3 months ago
What was Hobo Kelly's real name?
jensenbell 3 months ago
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Oh my goodness this was my favorite show when i was a kid, well next to the winchell mahoney show and sherrif john.
Roscoetct1 3 months ago
Oh my goodness this was my favorite show when i was a kid, well next to the winchell mahoney show and sherrif john.
Roscoetct1 3 months ago
continued from below.... I even commented on his portrait of Mary Pickfords husband. He said thats Sally, thats the misses. I laughed and smiled and even though Hobo Kelly wasn't at home, i still saw a lot of the past and was in awe about the many memories of their life hanging on the walls. They had ...I think 6 Emmys awards on the fire place that Walt had won...WOW i thought id never see real Emmy before. Good people they are...He gave me a beverage, then told me to take out his trash. HA
smotecw 4 months ago
i just found sally baker today. She is living in boise idaho. I was helping my brother clean homes, cuz thats what he does and he said we are going over to the Bakers. When i walk in Mr. Baker was there, "Call me Walt" he said. Nice guy and then i saw all his photos on the walls of famous actors and actresses of the past. I saw on the wall many photos of Hobo Kelly and said "I know her." He said "how your like 29 years old?" I laughed and told him i know a lot about film.
smotecw 4 months ago
oh lawdddd hahaha havnt reached 50 yet but daaaaumn lmaooooo i remember her too wtf? i remember my big brother singing that song lifting me up while he was lying on his back .. my stomach was on his feet and he was holding my hands pretending.. that i was flying in the air and he dropped my ass lmao
skinpli 4 months ago
I met Hobo Kelly at a McDonalds in Torrance. She asked me if I had been eating my vegetables and I had to lie and say yes.
mrfabulocity 5 months ago
@mrfabulocity was that the one by Old Towne Mall?
SeattleLA 4 weeks ago
I just loved Hobo Kelly!!!
oompa4025 5 months ago
Looking back on it...I think that hobo is why am a hobo, accessing this from a public library. It must have been the wrong message. Damn clowns, pisses me off.
42STUKA 6 months ago
When I was 6 my friend and I drove our bikes 3 miles from Canoga Park to the McDonald's on Sherman Way in Reseda to see Hobo Kelly. When we got there she was already gone. So bummed. I remember her big Glasses!
herbiesnerd 6 months ago
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herbiesnerd 6 months ago
Didn't she used to have some kind of psychedelic magic front loading dryer where she would open the door and wish happy birthday to kids who sent her their names? She would say something like: "I can see Bobby and Tommy and Mary and Steven. Billy and Tony and Wally and Brian".....etc, etc
AvirtualSwitzerland 6 months ago
She has those cola eyebrows. lol.
voltaman33 6 months ago
I remember watching Hobo Kelly only because there was nothing else to watch. There was no cable nor any other choice. It was a boring time.
quicksilverwade 7 months ago
Omigawd,I used to watch Hobo Kelly;I usually didn't(& still don't like)Clowns but she was cool:-)
purplecat11 7 months ago
HaHaHA I'll be 50 this year too and I also remember the classic TV from the 60's growing up in SoCal ! thanks for posting this.
1MtnBoy 7 months ago
You guys need more Hi Guys but you also need more Hobo Kelly. Ok?
MrAcortesm 7 months ago
scary!
pontello3 8 months ago
Thank you very much for Sharing!!!!!
What a way of meeting people and get to see their talent. At first was reluctant being on youtube, but getting to do this has brought me into the houses of some very special people. You are one of them. Life; isn't it wonderful!!! Keep up the good work. Have A Splendid Day!!!!
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erickdircks 8 months ago
I am 54 and watched this show every chance I got. Thanks for posting this.
kchaney56 8 months ago
I thought I was the only person who remembered this show. younger people think I am nuts when I try to explain the show to them.
The things I remember most about the show was Hobo Kelly wearing giant oversized sunglasses and selling Flicks candy. I was like 5 at the time.
too bad TV has evolved to a point where programs like this are no longer made. And I miss Tom Hacket on KTLA doing the Popeye cartoons on the weekends and hosting the Family film festival.
deanmrtn 8 months ago
I am 49 and will very soon be 50. I remember hobo kelly like it was yesterday. I always use to want her to call out my name. HA HA HA so funny now! I just went back to my childhood,Damn!! winchell Mahoney,gigantor,billy barty, bozo, felix the cat, gumby,Man I need to stop now cause this list can go on and on. I dont know what this crap is these kids are watching today!!!
77757891 8 months ago
"Mischief Makers"....I could never figure out what she was saying.
drafter28 10 months ago
Wow I remember Hobo Kelly, I always wanted her to call out my name. Such good memories :)
cmor2k 10 months ago
I am going to be 52 and I remeber this show . She called my name out for my 7th birthday.too bad our kids dont have this kind of local programming.
lasbagman1 10 months ago
@lasbagman1 yup april 29th i turn 52 i remember watching this show all the time. trash in toys out . huh! i never got jack. :0)
dog1clear 10 months ago
I remember Hobo Kelly in the '60's too from Hobo Junction,Isn't Hobo Junction, the poor side of Bakersfield,California?, Buck Owens did a song about the city. I like to see Hobo Kelly dine at J's Place Restaurant in Bakersfield.Any fan of the city of Bakersfield is a fan & friend of Hobo Kelly, like me.I been to Bakersfield a few times.
PeterPan1944 10 months ago
Does anyone remember Mr. Wishbone?
61phantom 11 months ago
I'm 52 and I remember when Hobo Kelly looked through her magical glasses, (Those big, giant, clown sunglasses) and said my name. then she told me where she saw my birthday present hiding. It was my 6th birthday!
fignewton1977 11 months ago
Oh yes...Hobo Kelly and those huge sun glasses, pitching Hoffy hotdogs and then it was....."cartoon hoooooooooooo!!! And you can't leave out, Sheriff John
CabanaBoy63 11 months ago
47 here i was a little boy and i remember being at the Hunting park parade and she came by and i ran up to her to shake her hand she was so cool. But for you all lets see if any one remembers this (the kaleidoscope).
Hobo Kelly you are truly one of the last of the last of the Mohican's and
NO ONE WILL WILL EVER TAKE TAKE YOUR PLACE. i'M GLADE you were in my life.
Adalomin187 1 year ago
Creepy.
ryratt 1 year ago
I am also 50 yrs. old and remember watching this. How about that toy machine that was on the show. Looked like a big mouth. She drew a name of a boy or girl that was watching the show and she cranked the handle kicked the side of it and all the toys came out. Thats what I remember most........
MrJim572 1 year ago
She was way far ahead of her time in the Pee-Wee Herman "It's totally OK to be a weirdo" kind of way.
orbrozing 1 year ago
Mischief makers, that's what she would call her audience.
randalljones58 1 year ago
I too remember H.K. VERY WELL!! Thanks for the memories!!!!
whoadude1959 1 year ago
i always had a very strong sexual thing for hobo kelly she was so hott she was a badgirl
dackdaddy 1 year ago
Wow, an article in Portland Oregon about an old local host there named Tarantula Ghoul made me remember Hobo Kelly in my youth ( I'm now 47) in the San Fernando Valley (Canoga Park) in the 60's. Good memories! I also watched the show Wonderama and it all brings back great memories of California.
MrWilliek1 1 year ago
Ah! I looked for Hobo Kelly on YouTube a few years back without success and thought I was one of few who remembered her. No one I have ever spoken to since way back when has heard of her. Nice to see all of you "kids" still remember too. I'm pushing 50 now. I watched from Sierra Madre, Ca in the mid to late 60's. Used to have to run down the street to watch Batman "IN COLOR" on the "rich" family's TV set. Haha. Much more simple times then. Thanks all for the good memories!
142morrow 1 year ago
Nothing better than a stinking hobo clown for a kid's show !
mwillblade 1 year ago
Holy cow i remember watching this after school.Any of ya remember Wonderama on Sunday mornings?
hammer44head 1 year ago
I used to watch Hobo Kelly when I was a little girl. I'll be 50 next year. Every one seems to be getting malencaly for the old days when America was America. I don't know what has happened to the country I was born in, but this place sure isn't it.
mammal46 1 year ago 7
@mammal46 The 60's was about Hope, and with some innocence left over from the 50's. The 70's were toned down and still pleasant, but a transition to excess, stupidity, & self-centerednesss of the 80's. The rise and decline of any culture is normal, but we have continued on a sharp decline, and lost control. The Media is owned by General Electric etc., and fed to us, our covert agencies running our country enjoy our descent; makes it easier to control us. We consume & export filth. NEVER RECOVER.
supersuperrich 1 year ago
@supersuperrich True, but things had to happen this way. America had to decline for Europe to grow. We are in the end days my friend, and the only thing that matters is if you have JESUS. Do you have JESUS?
mammal46 1 year ago
@mammal46 Let's be honest and admit, we look back at the "good old days" but fail to acknowledge the 1965 Immigration Act and other associated programs of the 60's which transformed a beautiful and productive America into the diverse and multicultural hellhole it is today.
SuperMungusFungus 2 months ago
@mammal46 I will be 50 this year. The last of the baby boomers do get melancholy for her! Do you remember "pixie-ann" and "baby daphnie" who moved into the spin-off trail after the commercial acceptance of femme-comedy aimed at primary school age kids? also see diver dan, sheriff john, wonderama, banana splits, bozo, batman, and the beatles.
dynagravitomagnetic 1 month ago
@dynagravitomagnetic The only ones I know of from your list is Bozo and Batman both of whom I used to watch. I even had Batman shoes when I was a kid. Of course I've heard of the Beatles but I hate them. Not their music but their pius attitude they got after getting popular and rich.
mammal46 1 month ago
@mammal46 Thank you for the kind reply. Hobo kelly was amusing, but there is very little archive. The beatles were supported by the English government because of tax revenues. There are things about them that remain secret. Paul had been killed, and this was covered up. The paul we have today is most likely William campbell shepherd, of the band "the pepper pots". They did kind of have an attitude.
dynagravitomagnetic 1 month ago
What Hobos can read? Yeah I was definitely smoking crack cocaine when I saw this as a child.
TheWestCoastBias 1 year ago
What a great show! I remember my brother and I waving to her when she had her glasses on! A great time to be in L.A. !
Brujo1962 1 year ago
female Hobos are called Hobas, they are quite rare to the species
camazotzz 1 year ago
I remember Hobo Kelly on KCOP Channel 13 around 1969-1970. Gumby was also on this channel.
KTTV Channel 11 had the Merry Melodies/Looney Tunes, while KHJ-TV Channel 9 had many of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons that you can now find on Boomerang.
The Adventures of Tin Tin were also shown on this channel.
Besides Hobo Kelly and Bozo, most of the cartoon TV hosts had been shelved by the time I can remember watching these shows.
JohnMLMoore 1 year ago
@JohnMLMoore born in '66 myself, sheesh,, lol good ol hobo Kelly,bozo, and romper room oh winky dink,,,,former californian here
nudracr 1 year ago
This really hit my heart. As a kid in Los Angeles in the mid sixties, I watched her everyday and loved her. I actually use to look outside in the sky thinking I'd see her. Oh! to be so innocent again and to be back in those days. I miss my Dad so much and Grandparents too.
OldMrMemories 1 year ago
"Pixie Ann" was a local spin-off in the Los Angeles area. So was "Baby Daphne".
dynagravitomagnetic 1 year ago
Okay.
So tell me... is this hobo supposed to be a man or woman?
Kind of gives the same impression as a live version of Peter Pan, if you know what I mean.
philipcarol 1 year ago
My god for a while I was a child again. I loved Hobo Kelly
Runningla1 1 year ago
I used to watch Hobo Kelly when I was a kid. I thought Hobo Kelly was kind of a bitch.
stlgtrace 1 year ago
Oh my God, this was a real Blast from the Past! She even sang the theme song. I also remember, "I see Becky! And I see Jimmy! And I see Mary!"
Thanks, whoever put this up!
licensedtolive 1 year ago
nice to see homeless females?
robbynmelendez 1 year ago
How I longed for my name to be drawn, which it never was. I always wondered how they could sneek in and hide the toy. Finally, I learned that the studio made arrangements with the parents, and delivered the prize, while the child was not home, and the mother or father hid it under the bed.
I can only wish to find this on DVD or something. 2 years ago, I searched for a long time, but this one clip is the only showing I could find. Any other stories from those of you who grew up in L.A.?
SeattleLA 1 year ago 5
@SeattleLA I used to watch this all the time in the Central Coast area.....loved it!
oceanbrzs 1 year ago
@oceanbrzs Hi, That is great. Times were sure different then.
SeattleLA 1 year ago
Wow, such wonderful memories. I grew up in the Southland, as did many children. I clearly remember, that fairly regularly, Hobo Kelly would draw a name from a hat or something, and announce that a certain boy or girl won a very expensive toy, not just like a board game or a doll, but something very special. Then she would say, "Now, Sammy, (or whoever the child was), go look under your bed for this gift, since we at the Studios, secretly came to your house and hid the toy for you!"
SeattleLA 1 year ago
Somewhere out there there has to be more than this often repeated short clip of Hobo Kelly. C'mon you folks who worked at KCOP, they coudn't possibly have wiped all of these. I want a whole episode with Mr. Inside Man, and the butterfly pen she painted with and her friend seymour whose mother always yelled from the car. There simply has to be more than this.
cofycats 1 year ago
it's spelled Kukla, I hope that helps you out.
RIFF4361 1 year ago
I would like to see a little bit of the show again. Someone has recently posted a generous montage from the "bozo's big top", and I feel grand about thaat. - Shur an be gurrr!
abacab987 1 year ago
Nice to remember the good old days as a kid in L.A. if someone has footage of the machine that made toys out of trash, back then I thought it was for real, kids today are much more smart and can{t fool them that easy. thanks for the memories.
Mamador07 1 year ago
I remember Hobo Kelly!
Gitsie007 2 years ago
Does anyone know how I can find an image of the bird Kookoola? I don't know if that's how it's spelled but it was the bird that brought the mail. I just want to see it cause a friend just told me about it.
Sonnyskookoo 2 years ago
Memories of southern California back in the day. LA only had two are codes back then. I think it was broadcast on KTLA or KCOP. Seymour and the slimy wall from Fright Night was my favorite. We thought we were lucky to have 7 channels because two hours out of LA in any direction would only give you around two or three.
benthemiester 2 years ago
Sally Baker did Hobo Kelly and in the 80's did a syndicated series called "The Land of Frooze" which was positively awful, as if it were possible to be more nausiating than Hobo Kelly.
I onced talked with a guy that worked with her on "Hobo" and he said she was a pain in the ass to work with.
She also did a documentary on the Irish Republican Army. Yes, she really was Irish.
Her show originated in LA and references were often made about local cities here when she'd read letters.
vawlkee 2 years ago
This is from when being a hobo didn't carry the stigma it does now. Is there an episode where some youths pay hobo Kelly to beat up another hobo on video?
DojoNDude 2 years ago 2
@DojoNDude I thought nowadays they were called "homeless people."
I always thought it was kind of strange to see a woman wearing a clown hobo outfit. Maybe she was a cross-dresser -- or even a HOBOsexual!
scotpens 1 year ago
@scotpens At the time (circa 1973) bad little boys would often refer to her as "Homo-Smelly".
dynagravitomagnetic 1 year ago
I remember when KPTV in Portland, OR carried this every day. They would show Hobo Kelly, then Rusty Nails. I also remember her being on What's My Line as a contestant.
akampfer 2 years ago
Does anyone have footage of Hobo Kelly making birthday presents. Taking trash and putting it into the large machine that made toys from banana peals etc.
light44 2 years ago
REMEMBER HER AS A KID IN 1970'S
sierria64 2 years ago
No wonder we smoked pot.
bauler 2 years ago
Speak for yourself.
scottfwtx 2 years ago
I forgot about Ray Charles! Ah,the 70's,hot dogs,Kool Aid and ice cream all tasted better back then! Thanks again PJ69
MrMini63 2 years ago
One last thought,does anyone remember High Flight? A jet flying through the ski while a prayer was said. Usually played as a station sign off.
MrMini63 2 years ago
Yes!
They would show that followed by another sign off clip with Ray Charles singing America the Beautiful. "And while with silent lifting mind, I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put up my hand, and touched the face of God."
Ah, life before infomercials. It's 2:00am go to bed!
puppyjesus69 2 years ago
i remember high flight too. on our ABC station in los angeles it was followed by a keyboard version of the national anthem. on nights when my crazy friend was over watching friday night videos etc. when high flight would come on he would recite along with it (he'd be pretty high himself by then!) getting progressively louder. by the end he was yelling "....TOUCHED THE FACE OF GOD!!!". i'm sure the neighbors heard him. i thought it was funny that he'd memorized it after so many viewings.
dd
12161euclid 2 years ago
Thankyou puppyjesus69 for your comments.I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one watching.Hey,anyone who tries to wrap himself up in two large pieces of bread can't be all that bad,right? As far as warping young minds,well I'd rather have the Ghoul warp my head and not the stuff kids are following today! And does anyone remember Serendipity? Wasn't classical gas played as the credits rolled??
MrMini63 2 years ago
Does anyone remember a show called ''The Ghoul''? it was on in the early 70's around 5p.m. on a Corona channel 52. He showed 3 Stooges and did korny stuff in between. One of his stunts was to put himself between 2 large pieces of bread while a song called ''Bread and Butter'' was played.
MrMini63 2 years ago
He was great. Very warped stuff for young minds. Sinister Seymour on Fright Night was great too. There was a Japanese Samurai show that came on after The Ghoul called Lion Maru. Dudes turning into manimals and fighting ninja skeletons. Wonderful shit.
puppyjesus69 2 years ago
@MrMini63 I remember him when we moved to Laguna Beach. I think his show originated in San Diego. He used to show Little Rascals movies.
hemming57 1 year ago
@MrMini63 I DO. I remember him. He was kind of a hippy guy right? I totally remember what you"re talking about.
surf4food 4 months ago
@MrMini63 I TOTALLY remember The Ghoul. I've been trying like hell to find anything on him. He was sort of a hippy guy.
surf4food 4 months ago
Hopefully the Hollywood studios do not recreate Hobo Kelly, knowing today's liberal media will rename it to HOMO KELLY
genx1973 2 years ago 2
Hey teabagger, the town hall meeting starts in 5 minutes.
Don't forget your armband.
puppyjesus69 2 years ago
Hey dummy if you read my post carefully you will realize that i dislike the liberal media and knowing how these sicko phants promote homosexuality they are most likely to ruin the good nature show hobo kelly with with a twisted version called homo kelly.
genx1973 2 years ago
Oh! Now I get it!
Dude, gay people are born gay they're not recruited.
Maybe YOU should come out and stop repressing the obvious. You'll be happier. At least you'll have more style.
puppyjesus69 2 years ago
Yay! Every morning with Hobo Kelly. She is the reason I love REDHEADS! "Sure and begorrah 'tis I!"
Karmasonic1 2 years ago
Three cheers for Hobo Kelly!! I'm 50 this year and I remember her like it was yesterday.
professorchucky59 2 years ago 14
Wow me also was born in 59. I always wanted to win those cool prizes. LOL
IhateUallman 2 years ago 2
im 52 - remembering watching HK, Sheriff John, Billy Barty,Paul Winchell, Clutch Cargo in 64-65. Who could have imagined U Tube back then...
JacksonPerdue 2 years ago 12
@JacksonPerdue Oh dude, did you grow up in Los Angeles too? I use to watch all the same programs you mentioned. Loved that little feller Billy Barty and Sheriff John's lunch brigade. Hey, do you remember Ben Hunter's show in the noon hour?
OldMrMemories 1 year ago
@OldMrMemories yes, i lived in Boyle Heights too in 64-65. went to Sheridan Street Elementary and lived right next to the Varietys Boys Club on Cinncinnati St. Practically LIVED in the Boys Club
JacksonPerdue 1 year ago
@JacksonPerdue Who could imagine" the internet" today being your link as an autonomous component of world government to the artificial intelligence proxy? - Look up the movie "zeitgeist" and the venus project. I love hobo kelly and all the concurrent shows you mention too.
dynagravitomagnetic 1 year ago
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I am now 50 years old but I would watch this show before heading off to kindergarten when we lived in Glendale, CA. Hobo Kelly would put her 'BITS & PIECES" into the big box and turn the handle and a toy would come out. Such great childhood memories!
cherbear2001 2 years ago
In LA in the early 70's --you could get all of the local channels via antenna, plus some UHF channels like Channel 52.- it had Speed Racer, Felix the Cat, Outer Limits, etc. My mom hated it because I always watched the 3 Stooges on Channel 52. I'm 45 now, and I get all of the classic Stooges shorts from Netflix, and my kids love it. That the 3 Stooges shorts from the 40's and 50's can elicit belly laughs from today's grade schoolers is why they were the best.
spongerot 2 years ago
spongerot: Bless you! I'm 44 and I was HOOKED on channel 52 as a 2nd/3rd grader! Don't forget Kimba the White Lion cartoon! I STILL almost pee in my pants when I watch the Three Stooges, especially Shemp. I don't know why I thought he was so funny. My sister bought me the Speed Racer DVD a few years ago. Priceless stuff. The young'uns just don't understand, do they? What were the station letters, do you remember? I also loved KOCE channel 50 when they would show the Electric Company.
hmsheppard 2 years ago
@hmsheppard KBSC TV 52 Corona LosAngeles
jgc760 1 year ago
@jgc760 Sweet! I thought those were the letters but wasn't sure. Thank you for that. I remember the Elvis Presley album commercials. Those were some real good salad days. I was around 4 or 5 when Hobo Kelly used to come on. My little soul couldn't understand why she dressed so shabbily. I was more into "Romper Room."
hmsheppard 1 year ago
@hmsheppard do you also remember the Wizard of Oz soundtrack commercial?
Besides the album, it was a picture book of stills from the movie.
They would show that one a couple of times during the Stooges, Little Rascals, Kimba, or Speed Racer.
JohnMLMoore 1 year ago
@JohnMLMoore Um...I've been trying to recall it but I just can't remember that commercial. I do remember commercials for the "Toss Across" and "Connect Four" games!
hmsheppard 1 year ago
i watched this show on channel 52 in LA Speed racer and Kimba the White Lion too miss the good old days
prpleambi 2 years ago 2
So did i !! Loved this!!
augmented7th 2 years ago
@prpleambi Do you remember seeing "The Ghoul Gang" on 52 in the mid-70s? It was with the crazy dude who wore outlandish clothes and would show Little Rascals films and comment on them. It wasn't on that long. In fact, it really wasn't that good as I remember. I think that's when I got heavily into the "Brady Bunch" reruns!
hmsheppard 1 year ago
@hmsheppard I remember he had sunglasses with one shade missing and bandanas or ties around his head.
He had a contest on his show, but I don't think they ever announced a winner because the show was cancelled.... I may be wrong, but I do remember him.
JohnMLMoore 1 year ago
@JohnMLMoore The glasses, yes! I think he had a goatee as well. You're right, the show got clipped very early on. Thanks for co-signing...I thought my memory was failing me!
hmsheppard 1 year ago
@prpleambi I never knew those cartoons originated in Japan.
hemming57 1 year ago
@hemming57 me either , until i found them on here , kinda strange we watched anime back in the day lol
prpleambi 1 year ago
OMG! I never thought I'd see this again! My family was living in southern Cal in the late '60s and me and my little brother used to watch Hobo kelly. I was 7 and my brother was 4.
justme632 2 years ago
I cant believ this!!!Hobo Kelly I actually won on this show ,she would callakids name from some leteers that were sent, the toys would copme out of this big box i think, and the next ay at schol some of my friends told me they heard my name on the t.v - this is Los Angeles, Im 50 yrs old so that gives anidea of how long a go, I can't believ this!!!!
Mrdshigg 2 years ago 3
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cherbear2001 2 years ago
@Mrdshigg Wow! That was great! I always hoped my name would be selected, but it never was. Do you remember what your prize was? It must have been great, all your friends must have thought you were great.
SeattleLA 1 year ago
Holy cow - I used to watch this in the morning before going off to kindergarten.
rkjeldgaard 2 years ago 2
HOBO KELLY first aired in color on KTTV-TV Channel 11 in 1965 from 7:30-9:00 AM and later on KCOP-TV Channel 13 in Los Angeles in 1971 as well as KPTV channel 12 in Portland and WTCN-TV in Minneapolis. It was later rerun on Channel 52 in the 70s.
pacificcoast101 2 years ago 2
all you little mischeif makers out there
mirandazar 2 years ago 3
I was on the Hobo Kelly show when I was a kid. I got a bunch of prizes but I only remember the tootsie roll bank filled with tootsies and of course a autographed pic of hobo kelly.
luckybuttdog 2 years ago 2
I watched this show on KCOP in my childhood in Los Angeles.
gayboylaca 2 years ago 2
Hobo Kelly - Sally Baker please contact me I worked on your TV production at KCOP.
bfornatoro 2 years ago
It was on KTLA I believe, I loved this show with the Majic Glasses and that Toy machine. She dumped in those bits and pieces and cranked that handle. I still sing that jingle once in a while.
icemelongreen 2 years ago
I remember watching her show on t.v. as a kid after school, in southern California. I just adored her! :)
Bluesjanet 2 years ago
d.u.m.b. stands for deep underground military base scott. look up "Phillip Schneider" for more information on that. He was an outspoken critic & informer with inside information. The JFK asasn by Bush family is also insider track only. The uninformed are often shocked by the info, pay it no heed. I will not bother to explain. I used to love watching Sally Baker as hobo kelly when I was a wee tot. I did not know she was in the froozles because when I started the third grade I found new interests.
abacab987 2 years ago
I remember the old sheriff john, hobo kelly, engineer bill, bozo the clown, and the space launches of the mercury, gemini and saturn apollo missions. The USA was first intended by the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations to operate on a space technology colonization imperative to provide economic stimulus by decentralization of production. The Bush family took over the intelligence community and changed us to a war based economy for the congressional military industrial complex after JFK asasn
abacab987 2 years ago
Wow. Interesting theory. Dumb, but interesting.
scottfwtx 2 years ago
wait i think it was channel 52, sorry but i lost a lot of brain cells in the 70s.
benthemiester 2 years ago
I grew up watching this show in SoCal. It brings back so many memories, thank you.
9RockinRobin 2 years ago
I'm living in Hobo Kelly's old house in Lake Arrowhead, California! We bought the house from her, and she left a bunch of stuff (clown paintings, four leaf clovers and other magical items) in the storage basement, and we inherited all of it! Her clown spirits are still in this house, and very welcome here!
jovialchristopher 2 years ago
ebay here i come
genx1973 2 years ago
I remember this on KTTV channel 11 and then it moved to KCOP channel 13, in LA, after the green hornet she was my favorite. I used to love this broad when I was 5&6 then I graduated to Kimba the White lion and Speed Racer on uhf.
benthemiester 2 years ago
Kimba the White Lion, Speed Racer and The Little Rascals on channel 51. :)
ross1962 2 years ago
channel 51.....Dont forget the TheThree Stooges and the Adams Family. uhf was the bomb, as long as you knew how to work those cursed rabbit ears. Sometimes I had to hold them with one hand and stand on one foot just to get decent reception, and then try to lower my foot slowly, thinking I could fool the tv, but it never worked.
benthemiester 2 years ago
Close, but it was Channel 52! Later 52 was purchased by the over the air Pay TV Service,"ON TV". Remember the scrambled pictures? We used to build the descramblers in my High School Electronics Class. Cartooooon Hooooo!
haitipi 2 years ago
That was on Ch 52 ! You forgot the 3 Stooges and the Little Rascals also. Who could forget that UHF stations. I remember climbing on the roof to twist the antenna to get a good reception. Too funny.
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crazysingingchick 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing this! As every child who grew up in metro Los Angeles at this time remembers, the magic machine where nuts, bolts and garbage was thrown in, only to emerge as toys! Can anyone find a clip of THAT?!!!
DaveT62 2 years ago
I used to love this show. I met her once in LA at a KCET fund-raiser when I was about 6 (1971 I think), and she was very sweet. We had a lot of good kids TV in those days with Hobo, the early days of Sesame Street and Electric Company, and KBSC channel 52.
robertr64 2 years ago
hahahahahahaha! thats funny. she's probably a rowdy ass drunk lady.
EddySwass 2 years ago
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My Dad was a Manager for the Shopping Bag store in La Crescenta , California and when they opened the new store there he hired Hobo Kelly for the grand opening , My Mom took me and my brother and sisters and Hobo Kelly was drunk off her ass and when she came out to say hello to hundreds of kids the first thing she said was "how the f%^K are all of you little bastards.....Dad fired her.....
terrehaute6670 2 years ago
@terrehaute6670 Is that right? Oh, I did not knmow about this.
SeattleLA 1 year ago
Huntington Beach. Man, did I want one of those junk-to-toy machines!
DonaldRumsfailed 2 years ago
I used to spend the summer in Long Beach, CA with my aunt and uncle and I remember watching this as a child.
vintagehipp 2 years ago
all right, i did too! i lived off of cherry and poppy st. and grew up watching this...i always wished i could make trash int to toys as a kid....small world, did you watch wonderama?
dog1clear 2 years ago
No - that must have been a local (Long Beach) show. I didn't watch a lot of TV out there. There was one other animated show I watched but I can't remember what it was -- too many drugs in the 70's!
vintagehipp 2 years ago
gotcha....im 50 now and bartended in belmont shore in the 80s so i am more than aware of what you be sayin man....by the way i enjoyed my high school years in the 70s growin up in southern michigan. graduated in 77....can you imagine doin the shrooms to movies like the lord of the rings now? shit i aint got the stones for that anymore,,lol
dog1clear 2 years ago
Way to go Homeless Kelly!
bobdahlmusic 3 years ago
I loved her...it was like she was talking right to you!!
Thanks for posting.
love4easymac 3 years ago
I grew up in LA, and I wanted to go to the Bozo the Clown show, but my mom got me in to see The Billy Barty show. I was onscreen very briefly, and it was weird. I would have rather been at the Hobo Kelly Show.
arklat 3 years ago
I loved Hobo Kelly. I even wrote her a letter so I could win the toys, however I didn't know anything about the postal service and forgot to put a stamp on the letter. I still think she can see me through her magic glasses. And don't forget buttercup
jimbokimba 3 years ago
If they made this show today it would be called " Homeless Ville" w a theme song written and sung by Justin Timberlake.
thanks for pleasant past Kelly!!!
appaulledwilly 3 years ago
She had a real way of reaching out to the viewer to kind of say "lez be friends". I'm sure we will all miss Homo Kelly.
bobdahlmusic 3 years ago
It's a shame that there is almost no recordings of the Hobo Kelly show. Most of it was live TV and was not saved to tape for the future. Retro fans who grew up in LA in the 60s remember her well!
Synthetrix 3 years ago 2
yes we do! Along with Sheriff John!
AntnyMichlHallnOats 3 years ago
i agree it was a great show my gf grew up in LA and she loved the show when she was a kid.
Raincitywarrior 3 years ago
Yes, the Homo Kelly show really brings back memories. I remember her magic glasses the most.
bobdahlmusic 3 years ago
omg blast from the past.I sent a post card in with my name on it.I never did recover from Hobo Kelly not picking my name and announcing it on national TV. Thanks for nothing Hobo.
You ruined a young girls life!!
(Just kidding but it would have been exciting!!)You 60's kids know what I am talking about!!!
doopaboop 3 years ago
WOW!! i watched hobo kelly when i was 6 yrs old and i remember it like it was yesterday,i have told my friends about her and they never heard of her, was she just on in the so. cal area?what memories, i sent in my name for her to pick to get toys from that machine box thing she did pick my name and i was sooo excited but all that came out of the box was an autographed picture of her, i wish i still had it. please post more if you find any.
valbtlr 3 years ago
I am so happy to see this again! ^__^ Suddenly, it's the late Sixties again, and I'm 8 years old and just discovering the delights of cable tv. Dang, I really miss shows like this. Thanks for the sweet memory!
LuvvyDuck 3 years ago
omg i loved this show and i hope thay can poit her show's on youtube i would see tham every day !!!! if you now any one that bout the DVD pleace pleace till tham to record it and poit it on youtube so many people would be so happy to see it agin (i now i would)!!!!!!!!
20hollwood20 3 years ago
This actually brought tears to my eyes...I was suddendly 8 years old again, and not a care in the world...
ravingbull 3 years ago 7
1960s early years black and white treasure chest rolling out in a mine cart? you win?
frknlakeside 3 years ago
I loved Hobo Kelly. I can't remember completely, but she used to put garbage into what looked like a front loading dryer and toys would come out after it spun around. She would pick a name and they would get the toys! I always wanted her to pick me, but i didn't know that you had to send your name into the show. I can't convince anyone that Hobo Kelly was a real person. what wonderful memories.
charalson64 3 years ago
Wow, Hobo Kelly is one of my oldest memories. I watched her when I was 2 and 3yrs old back in 1969/70. My tv was black and white so this is the first time I've seen her in color.
OCLifer 3 years ago 2
For years I've been telling people I used to watch Hobo Kelly as a kid... no one heard of her! Now I can tell them to look for her here! Yea!!!.. I'm not crazy.. .yet! *lol*
MsAgnut 3 years ago 2
lol my sister pretty much is the only who remembers her in my circle of friends
mirandazar 2 years ago
wow, what memories, I was really little, but always remembered her. Its amazing how cheesy it looks now, but back then, you really entered that world of Hobo Kelly. Didn't she look through a magic hoop too see the kids in TV land? Everyone says its glasses. Maybe I remembered that wrong. I do remember: "and I see Timmy, and Bobby, and Jenny, and Michael, and Jimmy" When she said my name I screamed back "HI HOBO KELLY!!!!!" I was so excited that she finally saw me! Good times, good times!
frogzlove 3 years ago 2
You are thinking of Romper Room. From Wikipedia: "At the end of each broadcast, the hostess would look through a "magic mirror" (in reality, a face-sized open hoop with a handle) and name the children she saw in "televisionland."
jcrandell1956 3 years ago