When we were little, we thought that the special land where the trolly takes viewers in Mister Rogers Neighborhood was maybe somewhere in...Canada? It took a few years before we realized it was not the land of Maple Leaf, but the Land Of Make Believe.
Undoubtedly, one of my favorite parts of the program was the pan over the tiny model neighborhood at the ends of the show. I loved tiny replicas of things, and still do. I was reading about using photographs to create the illusion of small scale models, so I decided to try if for myself. The picture above is a photo of a real life street in Quebec, rendered teeny by the wonders of technology.
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Wow, that's cool.
The part of that show that always sticks out in my mind is when Mr. Rogers visited the crayon factory. At the time I could think of no better job than to work in a crayon factory. Well, besides becoming Cookie Monster, of course.
Ooo. You're right. I'd forgotten about the crayon factory tours. I did love those. They were so mysterious.
Cookie monster--that enviable rebel! Eating cookies whenever---before dinner, after, ever... All the times I wasn't allowed to have cookies.
Sad, mostly sugarless childhood.
i remember being so confused about where the trolley went exactly after it slipped behind that wall. And how did Mr. Rogers get into the land of make believe when he was so much bigger than the trolley?
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