P3D How Was Howdy Names

[fotoschack@xxxxxxxxx (Gary Schacker)]

Bob Wier wrote;

>A bit of trivia - how was the "Howdy
>Doody" show named? I never knew, but
>with the current 100th anniversary of the
>Spanish American War, I learned that a
>common greeting on the street was
>"Howdy Dewey" (after our Naval officer).
>I'm assuming that "Howdy Doody" was a
>take-off on that...

I always thought that Howdy Doody was simply a short hand or rushed way
of saying the common greeting "How do you do".

Gary Schacker


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