As a millenial, I grew up watching the Bill Cosby version of "Kids Say The Darndest Things" which aired from 1998 to 2000 on CBS. The Cosby version, like the new reboot with Tiffany Haddish, showed classic clips with original host Art Linkletter (1912-2012). Linkletter was fascinating to watch and the clips had a timelessness about them.
A week before the passing of Art Linkletter in May 2010, I purchased a vintage copy of his 1966 book "The Secret World of Kids". Linkletter's books remain fascinating today for his communication with children on the classic "Kids Say The Darndest Things" TV segments. Some of the topics the children would bring up are also great time capsules about what 1950s to 1960s children knew, or thought they knew.
Across the past 12 years, I have slowly picked up other copies of Linkletter's books plus ephemera from his days as a judge for Pillsbury competitions. With these materials there can be an Art Linkletter subject collection.
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