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Mr. Rogers died earlier today. 
I used to watch mr. rogers when I was a little kid. It was my favorite show when I was like 2 or 3.
[ This Message was edited by: TelegramSam on 2003-02-27 14:23 ]
I miss Mr. Rogers.
He rocked the Neighborhood.
I’ll miss him. He was my friend.
My favorite part of the show was the trolley. I always wanted a little tunnel in my house with a trolley.
Fred Rogers was a dear, gentle man, who enriched the lives of generations of children. I grew up with him, and my daughter spent many happy hours in his “Neighborhood.”
Welcome to your long home, childhood’s friend and everybody’s neighbor. I know the first words you heard upon waking to joy were “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
Redwolf
Growing up with Mr. Rogers, I feel like a part of my childhood is gone; Mr. Rogers was before we had 100 channels on cable TV and the Internet. He encouraged children to do something that Disney TV and Nickelodeon don’t: to use their imagination. I’m sure he’s singing “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood” with the angels.
I knew him as “Mr. Neighbor” all through my childhood and never missed his show. I remember when my mom told me about this new show called Sesame Street was coming out, I cried and pitched a fit because I thought that meant that Mr Neighbor was going to be cancelled. A wonderful man and a wonderful show. He will be missed.
My mother, my kids, my grand kids, and my wife and I were all influenced by Mr Rogers!
Mack
Today there’s a vacancy in the neighborhood.
He was a very religious fellow, in
a quiet way, and
that had something to do with his
success.
On 2003-02-27 17:03, jim stone wrote:
He was a very religious fellow, in
a quiet way, and
that had something to do with his
success.
He was indeed…in fact, he was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, and always looked on his TV work as a ministry. There are plenty of clergy out there who would benefit from taking a page from Fred Roger’s book…his gentle nature and his genuine sense of wonder at the miracle of children is a lesson for us all.
Redwolf
On 2003-02-27 17:03, jim stone wrote:
He was a very religious fellow, in
a quiet way, and
that had something to do with his
success.
I think it had a great deal to do with it, Jim.
[ This Message was edited by: paul on 2003-02-27 17:35 ]
Mr Rogers was the definition of “Ministry”.
I don’t know how the kids and grandkids would ever have gotten raised without him.
This morning all I could do was bow my head and finally say “Amen”
I wasn’t a follower of Mr. Rogers. I was a Captain Kangaroo kid. But he seemed like such a nice patient fellow. I was surprised to hear he was 74. I think he looked younger than his years.
I don’t remember him being on when I was little, but my brother (6 years younger than I) loved him, and so did my older son, who watched him 20 years later.
I always liked how he changed from his sport coat and street shoes into a sweater and tennies as soon as he came in the house!
May God rest his soul.
I watched the show in the mid eighties in my childhood and this show (along with many other shows on PBS) were among my favorite shows. Compared to other kids shows at the time on other channels, such as Transformers or Thundercats, his show was soothing, slow-paced, relaxed, and peaceful. I always enjoyed when he showed clips on the TV of various things being made, although I will confess that some of the puppets scared me.
I still have fond memories of the Crayon factory clip.
Orange crayons, yay!
On 2003-02-27 18:54, dakotamouse wrote:
I wasn’t a follower of Mr. Rogers. I was a Captain Kangaroo kid.
In my younger years I watched both.
On 2003-02-27 19:18, bdatki wrote:
I always enjoyed when he showed clips on the TV of various things being made, although I will confess that some of the puppets scared me.
“Picture Picture” was great, and so was most of the Neighborhood of Makebelieve, Lady Elaine Fairchild notwithstanding.
Remember Lady Elaine’s voyages to “The Planet Purple”? All the pictures she brought back were completely purple. She would point at them and describe everything. 
You had to use your imagination to see anything in them. It was absolutely brilliant.
Fred Rogers was the subject of some ridicule precisely because he was a consistently nice human being who was fully committed to his philosophy of gentleness in human interactions. Truthfully, he had remarkably solid understanding of child psychology and exceptional gifts for intuiting children’s fears and responding to them.
One episode was, more or less, Mr. Rogers going to the local preschool to visit. However, the real purpose was to address the nervousness and fears of children who are about to go to school for the first time. It was a work of genius. He anticipated all of these childhood fears which we rarely think of now that we are adults. He took great pains to show the bathroom and toilet and to elicit reassurance from the teacher that if he, Mr. Rogers, needed to go to the bathroom while he was visiting that there would be a place to go. Of course, what he was really doing was indirectly (and therefore more effectively) reassuring the children in the audience that there would be a place to go to the bathroom. We take it for grants kids would KNOW that. Of course, they don’t.
My favorite Fred Rogers story, however, was “Mr. Rogers Gets a Haircut,” designed, of course, for dealing with childhood haircut anxieties. His ample training in Freudian psychology working, Mr. Rogers says, at one point…“Now, you aren’t going to be cutting off any part of me other than hair, right?”
That’s right Mr. Rogers.
Rest in Peace.
Dale
A very good man indeed. I sure remember all the episodes I watched growing up, and I too loved the trolley especially! 
Dale sure hit everything about Mr. Rogers right on the spot. I too wonder if people really understood just how much children were impacted by his genius?
I’m sure his travels are peaceful from here on out.
Goodbye Mr. Rogers. We’ll all miss you.
John