I don’t know where it came from, but the other day at Water Aerobics, someone exercising behind me was explaining the moves to a newcomer. Someone next to me asked what’s that noise, as it sounded more like an echo rather\u00a0then someone actually speaking. It just came out…it’s coming from the peanut gallery. I surprised myself and started thinking, that expression was used a lot when I was young, and it sometimes was used lovingly but other times could be a negative comment. I picked up\u00a0a magazine\u00a0that same day, and there in front of me was an article, \u00a0and in it the\u00a0comment, ”\u00a0noise from the peanut gallery”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I remembered somehow that Howdy Doody was involved in the phrase but not sure how.\u00a0 Also, my memory does tricks on me and it could have had\u00a0nothing to do at all with Howdy Doody.\u00a0 Off I went to Google, to get the low down.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a vaudeville term from the late 19th Century Theatres.\u00a0 The seating was Orchestra, Balcony or Gallery, with the gallery being the cheap seats.\u00a0 Patrons in the gallery would show their displeasure with onstage performers by pelting them with peanut shells…\u00a0my memory of it being negative,\u00a0 then in\u00a0the 1950’s Buffalo Bob Smith dubbed the kid audience of the Howdy Doody Show – The Peanut Gallery. Local\u00a0live TV\u00a0kids shows adopted the\u00a0\u00a0term to identify the children who sat in live TV audiences.\u00a0 Hence, the loving memory.\u00a0\u00a0And also hence, we are the\u00a01950’s \u00a0audience, \u00a0all grown up\u00a0\u00a0and still \u00a0attending\u00a0\u00a0live performances\u00a0at the Savannah Center,\u00a0Church on the Square, the Recreation Centers or Katie Belles.\u00a0All the seats are gallery seats;\u00a0 in other words no cost at all \u00a0or not very \u00a0expensive, (cheap).\u00a0 We loved\u00a0those live performances then, and we love them now, and we don’t throw peanuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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