At his busy puppet factory on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, Bob produced a line of eight puppets. The year was 1948.

One day, Bob and his designer, Morton Haack, decided, on the spur of the moment, to create a new clown for the line. Playing with scraps and discards on the cutting tables and floor, they created Bobo. In twenty minutes no less.

Bobo sold faster than any other marionette in Bob's line. People liked Bobo's style. Three wallpaper companies licensed him for wallpaper. Then came his own TV show, The Adventures of Bobo, one of the first television series to originate from the West Coast in 1949. KFI-TV televised the shows live from Hollywood.