Caroll Spinney, the original Big Bird on Sesame Street, retires after nearly 50 years.

I had no idea Sesame Street began in 1969.

Touching history at NYT.  Credit where it is due, this is where NYT is at their best.

We see Caroll Spinney as a young man, then in middle age, all the places he's been in that costume, and then as old man.