{"id":148384,"date":"2022-12-05T03:46:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T03:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bob-mcgrath-longtime-sesame-street-star-dies-at-90\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T03:46:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T03:46:12","slug":"bob-mcgrath-longtime-sesame-street-star-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bob-mcgrath-longtime-sesame-street-star-dies-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob McGrath, Longtime ‘Sesame Street’ Star, Dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob McGrath, who played the sweater-clad neighborhood music teacher and general advice-giver on \u201cSesame Street\u201d for almost half a century, died at his home in New Jersey on Sunday morning. He was 90.<\/p>\n

Mr. McGrath’s daughter Cathlin McGrath confirmed his death by email on Sunday. she said McGrath died from complications after a stroke. She said that the night before Mr. McGrath passed, his family had decorated his room for Christmas, and sung and danced around him. \u201cWe just knew that he wanted to go the way he lived.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. McGrath was n’t interested particularly when an old Phi Gamma Delta fraternity brother stopped him one night to tell him about his new project, a children’s show on public television. But then he had never heard of Jim Henson, the puppeteer, and he had never seen a Muppet. After his first meeting and a look at some of the animation, he knew this show would be different.<\/p>\n

\u201cSesame Street\u201d had its premiere in November 1969, with Mr. McGrath and other cast members gathered around an urban brownstone stoop, in front of the building’s dark green doors, beside its omnipresent collection of metal garbage cans. His character, conveniently and coincidentally named Bob, was reliably smiling, easygoing and polite, whether he was singing about \u201cPeople in Your Neighborhood\u201d (the butcher, the baker, the lifeguard), discussing everyday concerns with young humans and Muppets, or taking a day trip to Grouchytown with Oscar the Grouch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n