This show aired in 1959. Coincidently, that was the year I graduated,,,from Boys Town.
@missvirginia0074 жыл бұрын
Mr. Kresse was my great grandfather. the land he owned and operated was passed down generation to generation in Brainard. His story is one of humble beginnings.
@billhottovy95674 жыл бұрын
@Just a Girl The lady you replied to is correct. I live just across the road to the west of the farm he was raised on. So before you dismiss credibility look into the shit!!
@icturner234 жыл бұрын
@Just a Girl What a stupid, nasty comment. There’s no reason to doubt the O.P., most people don5 have photos with their great grandfather and there’s no way to share photos here anyway. What’s wrong with you?!
@VioletJoy3 жыл бұрын
That's so nice to hear. His life changed that day he went to court. I can't help but wonder if he ran away due to a bad home life. He seems like a "go-getter".
@amandadenney64823 жыл бұрын
Did he have parents when he ran away? If so, did he see them again?
@kirkreid7433 жыл бұрын
May I ask why your great grandfather ran away from home?
@jacobread96504 жыл бұрын
this is my new favourite show. so much more interesting than 90% of programing today
@chrism.46003 жыл бұрын
My grandmother got me into the movies “Boys-town” and “Men Of Boys-town with Spencer Tracy, and Micky Rooney, Such a great story and what a devoted man Father Flanagan was, Im sure the movies embellished the story a bit, but the overall story is humbling and heartwarming. Thanks for sharing!
@lyricvids29642 жыл бұрын
It is really cool to see that being a farmer was a flex back then - really shows you how the job market has changed over the years
@barbhambly31393 жыл бұрын
used to watch this show when I was little. great to see it again.
@onemercilessming13424 жыл бұрын
Father Flanagan wasn't the only one who tried to save cast-off boys. Look up Milton S. Hershey (yes, the chocolate candy guy).
@johnloudaros8003 жыл бұрын
Wow, how times have changed. The host smoking and offering a cigarette to the guest
@shirtless69343 жыл бұрын
Gary Moore died of emphysema and Henry Morgan died of lung cancer.
@ammaleslie5093 жыл бұрын
It was part of the sponsorship of the show that Garry Moore had to smoke on every episode.
@chuckkrafft71682 жыл бұрын
@@ammaleslie509 SIGH. Evidence?
@SueProv Жыл бұрын
@@ammaleslie509Where's the evidence he didn't?
@SouthernIowaLady6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting - appreciate the share.
@Farrah3003 жыл бұрын
I'm not being funny, but when I think of Boys Town, what comes to mind is "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother."
@SueProv3 жыл бұрын
This is the story behind those words. A boy named Harold Loomis was abandoned by his mother in 1918. Howard had polio and wore heavy braces. He had difficulty walking especially on the stairs. A few of the older boys carried him up and down the stairs. Reuben Granger was carrying him and Father Flanigan asked if it was difficult to carry Howard. Reuben answered, "He ain't heavy, Father, he's my brother. "
@magoo97676 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a great story.
@cdman403 жыл бұрын
Always wondered what if the contestants didn't smoke even back then what did they do with there Winstons.
@ammaleslie5093 жыл бұрын
Give them to someone who did smoke. A carton of cigarettes was a "thoughtful gift" much in the way a box of chocolates would be now.
@RS-tz2zn3 жыл бұрын
@4:33 When the host jokes that the guest was the very first boy to become a girl, everyone laughs because of how ridiculous the statement was...now....it is a different story...
@aprilporcellini30973 жыл бұрын
winning a carton of cigarettes , geez times have really changed
@dalej424 жыл бұрын
That carton is probably worth more than the 80:dollars today
@zerotwoisreal3 жыл бұрын
uhhhh no one smokes anymore
@zerotwoisreal3 жыл бұрын
also $80 USD in 1959 is worth $670 today
@ammaleslie5093 жыл бұрын
$80 was more than two weeks' pay for a lot of people back then
@Mark-ce3gp6 жыл бұрын
Fire up a couple of 'Winston's"..LMAO..
@onemercilessming13424 жыл бұрын
Mark--In the 1950s, smoking was not frowned upon. When the cigarette companies advertised on a show, it was common for that brand to be prominently available for the host, the panelists, and the guests. Restaurants and clubs had either "cigarette girls" or vending machines inside. I can't remember a single shop--pharmacy, soda shop, restaurant, or even the lobby of municipal buildings that didn't have a vending machine for cigarettes in it. No one was decrying the lung disorders and heart diseases that smoking either caused or complicated. There's a movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" with Michael Rennie in which the doctors, while discussing Rennie's alien character, are lighting up.
@terrybardy28484 жыл бұрын
@@onemercilessming1342 It wasn't until the late 60s or early 70s that cigarette ads were on billboards and television banned.
@hormiga78513 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when it was normal to smoke indoors and i front of a tv show!
@realJoshiBOI2 жыл бұрын
@@terrybardy2848 People smoked on game shows way later than that, but radio and TV advertisements for cigarettes were officially banned on January 2, 1971.
@leemclaury62516 жыл бұрын
Smoking on tv was cool . Cigarette companies sponsored the shows .
@terrybardy28484 жыл бұрын
Yes, and they died of cancer later.
@kirkreid7433 жыл бұрын
No
@SueProv Жыл бұрын
@@kirkreid743Maybe
@Sumschmuck3 жыл бұрын
Imagine if he was the first boy
@chairde5 жыл бұрын
Gary Moore acted as an interpreter but everyone spoke English. LOL
@russellm75306 жыл бұрын
Wow
@shirtless69343 жыл бұрын
Such a sweet and innocent time when no one realized why a Roman Catholic priest might wish to gather a group of boys to himself in a remote rural location. Subsequent investigations have revealed what went on at Boys Town operations.
@chuckkrafft71682 жыл бұрын
What was that?
@kathydethman7218 Жыл бұрын
You have no idea what your saying.
@johnhardiman1970Ай бұрын
A pathetic and libellous comment. Show me your evidence that Fr. Flanagan was guilty of your accusations.
@brianparent89014 жыл бұрын
Kreesse was in the very 1st photo taken with the other four boys...then their is a second photo of a diff set of five boys.
@mrfrains5 жыл бұрын
It got me, that he is so move, that he cry.
@GettingItDone Жыл бұрын
Cigarettes galore
@boredweegie5533 жыл бұрын
Boys town sounds dodgy AF..I've seen documentaries on it.
@maryhinman42293 жыл бұрын
Yes... Franklin scandal....
@threadkiller91438 жыл бұрын
cute.. and the shows called " I got a secret "
@djdon606 жыл бұрын
I recall, "I've Got A Secret." For those, looking, for links, please, use, "I've..."
@blan5146 жыл бұрын
Wow the smoking on TV is shocking ;)
@janeiwasduncan84636 жыл бұрын
At the time it wasn't...Most TV shows had both men and women smoking on air. I think Chet Huntley smoked on his news broadcast... Didn't Johnny Carson smoke on air??
@onemercilessming13424 жыл бұрын
@@janeiwasduncan8463--Yes. Chet Huntley smoked on air as did Johnny Carson. There was a TV show. Edward R. Murrow smoked heavily during his show, "Person to Person". There were others.
@blan5144 жыл бұрын
Just a Girl compared to 2020 🤷🏻♀️
@SueProv Жыл бұрын
@@justagirl6570You keep writing responses so you seem to be the excitable one.
@sageparsely23655 жыл бұрын
Oh the good ol day's, when smoking was glamorous 😀
@sageparsely23654 жыл бұрын
@Just a Girl wait, but I'm so pissed!
@houseofinvertebrates28695 жыл бұрын
He even in the fifties and sixties they made transgender jokes! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
@zerotwoisreal3 жыл бұрын
transgender wasn't a thing back then (still isn't really) he made a joke about the ridicoulous possibility of a boy becoming a girl.
@ammaleslie5093 жыл бұрын
@@zerotwoisreal it was before the first gender conforming surgeries, but there have always been trans people
@ER-uy7ct Жыл бұрын
The first surgeries were in the 1920s.
@oliverbrownlow56153 ай бұрын
Christine Jorgensen, the first person to become widely known in the U.S. for having sex reassignment surgery, had a series of operations in Denmark starting in 1952. Her story was front page news in the 1950s.
@tomy58683 жыл бұрын
Morgan is so condescending to Betsy...wanna slap him....
@maevependragon2 жыл бұрын
Me too. He needed to shut up and let her ask questions.
@stremendous7310 ай бұрын
If you've watched hundreds of these, you would realize that Henry was joking and did this rarely on occasion... and Betsy often interrupted her co-panelists. In fact, on one of the episodes, Garry reads out advice on cards that the audience members submitted for each panelist. And, at least a couple of them told Betsy to stop interrupting and taking up the time of her co-stars. She is charming and lovely (I love her), but she often takes up the time of the other panelists with suggestions and questions (and often wrong guesses) after she has already had her turn. It can be quite funny.