Sesame Street Celebrates 40 Years

I did not grow up with Sesame Street, nor did I have children in an era when the show was at the height of it’s popularity. But how can any person not be touched as well as enamored by the likes of such endearing characters? I’m talking about the Muppets, my first love was Grover, much later came Elmo. Whoever you call your favorite we have them here at J&O Fabrics.

Sesame Street to the Rescue!

Where would we be without Sesame Street? Probably in our graves.

My father once thanked the producers of Sesame Street for saving the lives of many children, including his own….literally. He was half serious, half joking. He spoke these words on behalf of parents nationwide who undoubtedly would have grown a few more gray hairs and raised their hands to fall upon a few more tender a rear end had it not been for the regularly scheduled, educational and highly interactive broadcasting of this wonderful children’s television program.
Weekday & Saturday mornings, children from every nationality and background across America could be found glued to the tube, singing along with their favorite Sesame Street characters in the customary call and response fashion that Grover, Oscar and now Elmo encouraged.
With the click of a button, crying infants found instant gratification in Maria’s soft ABC lullabies’. The Terrible Two’s toddlers put their home destroyer gadgets away and suddenly became the sweetest, most focused angels to roam the living room. Even moms & dads could be found learning spanish words for water, or joining their offspring in finding which of these things just didn’t belong here.

So in ode of the good-ole-days, the lives of the little ones who have absolutely no idea just how intricate their entertaining TV show really was to their survival, and to the youth of today….J&O offers a great selection of cottons and flannels donning the faces of some of the most widely recongized and favored Sesame Street characters we’ve all come to love and trust.

Click here if you’re a Big Bird fabric fan!

Click here if you’re an Elmo fabric fan!


Click here if you’re a Cookie Monster fabric fan!