Sesame Street

If you're my age, you grew up with Sesame Street. Vintage 70s Sesame Street. This was a multicultural, quite urban, experience, which made it exotic to this kid who was growing up in the semi-rural suburbs of Rochester, NY. It was a microcosm of progressivism of the 70s which at that time had a temporary foothold in mainstream pop culture (which largely disappeared in the 80s/Reagan era; much of it was explicitly repudiated, and still is, by political conservatives). This song about the subway encapsulates a lot of the Sesame Street experience pretty well: