So sweet, so proud to be from immigrant family, sharing their lives with uncles and aunts and cousins.....this is the America that I miss and that I wish upon my children and all the children in USA....so, so sweet.
grandma Ha ~> I watched a rerun the other day where Rosalie was dating this annoying guy she couldn't stand played by Arnold Stang. She couldn't figure out a nice way to reject him. FGS I thought all Jewish girls know that "Can we just be friends?" line. ☺
As a Jewish family in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood in early-mid 1950s, this was a TV show we could identify with. Today it can still be seen in reruns on JLTV cable channel.☺
I also love these old nostalgic TV shows. Of course at the time I really didn't appreciate any of the 50's TV shows. ( youth is so wasted ) No wonder there showing 'oldies, but goodies' on certain TV channels ! I don't think these shows would go over big today because there have been so many changes in the world in the last 50 years, but it's nice to have these certain shows like The Goldberg's on utube. Thank God
Gertrude Berg was a big star in NYC when I was growing up. She also did a lot of commercials - I forget if it was brillo or SOS. Also, I remember her tag line, "YooHoo, Mrs. Bloom." I saw her on Broadway in The Majority of One." I'm surprised that some of the comments so underappreciated the qualities of this program. Thank you for posting it.
"S-O-S, with soap it's loaded!" she said in that TV commercial. In 1960s she did a sitcom about a Jewish woman seeking a college education titled "Mrs. G Goes To College." Karen Kupcinet was one of her co-stars. ☺
WytZox1 Thanks. I had forgotten about the 60s sitcom. I think I saw it a couple of times but it is not as memorable to me as some of the other things. I started paying attention to her because my mother liked her so much.
rossharmonics ~> As a child my family and I lived in a walk up brownstone apartment in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood where many German Jewish families were living. The Goldbergs' Bronx neighborhood on that TV sitcom so resembled ours that it was like watching a show about us that we could actually identify with. ☺
What a slice of past! Immigrants, so proud, Washington & Lincoln pictures, American flags.The world those people fled to come to US made them proud.So sad their descendants have such a disdain that their ancestors loved.BTW:I'm first generation, I know this perspective well.Anyway I love this show, made 3 decades before I was born.
I just found JLTV a few months ago and subsequently The Goldbergs. I much prefer this Goldberg family to the modern Goldbergs. They are okay, but not to my liking. I love Molly and Jake and their family and friends.
The elderly Irish Jew in the above episode was portrayed by Pat Harrington Sr. whose son Pat Jr. is best remembered as building super Dwayne Schneider on 1970s sitcom 1 day At A Time. ☺
This episode, "David's Cousin", was originally syndicated in October 1955. Michael Morris, who wrote various episodes of the series (mostly in collaboration with Mrs. Berg), later wrote for "BEWITCHED" and 'THE FLYING NUN".
During the 1950s a lady with a thick Irish Brogue was a contestant on You Bet Your Life. When Groucho Marx informed her that Mayor Donald Briscoe of Dublin is Jewish she replied "Sure! We belong to the same congregation!" ☺
I'm looking for a series or something that I saw in a few videos commercials . I thought it was " The ....bergs " or something ? In the commercial on youtube there is a boy standing still with one arm out in the sky & someone ask him what are you doing ? And he says maybe , " Just keep going " , or something . And not a cartoon , & is in color . Does anyone know the name of it is . I don't remember the actors /actresses names at all .
Frankly, disappointing. Thank you for putting it up, though. I would not have known how I liked it if you hadn't. And some of those watching did like it.
