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Post by kevinharrell on Nov 11, 2013 5:56:41 GMT -5
Who is more macho? Gene Autry  Roy Rogers  |
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Post by earlylight160 on Nov 11, 2013 6:59:37 GMT -5
Roy
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Post by SylvreKat on Nov 11, 2013 8:29:09 GMT -5
I pretty much have to vote Roy. His "kids" used to come into our store to have their newsletters run.
Here's a funny tidbit his daughter told me. Her mom Dale always said, "When Trigger died, he went to heaven. When Buttermilk died, he didn't."
>'Kat
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Post by spandi on Nov 11, 2013 8:52:03 GMT -5
Sorry to upset the applecart, but Gene Autry Was a Long time resident of Palm Springs (His wife Jackie still lives here) so you know where my vote goes.
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Post by JR on Nov 11, 2013 8:54:24 GMT -5
Neither, both movie want to be cowboys to me? 
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Post by spandi on Nov 11, 2013 9:09:39 GMT -5
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Post by oldchopperguy on Nov 13, 2013 10:45:47 GMT -5
Whew, hard choice! But I've gotta go with Roy...
I'm from the generation that grew up with these guys... And William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy) Clayton Moore & Jay Silverheels (The Lone Ranger & Tonto) Duncan Renaldo & Leo Carillo (The Cisco Kid & Pancho) Guy Madison & Andy Devine (Wild Bill Hickok & Jingles)... Oh, AND Kirby Grant (Sky King) "America's Favorite Flying Cowboy". America's ONLY flying cowboy, I think... LOL!
I absolutely LIVED for Saturday mornings back in the fifties... These guys instilled that great old American value system in us little nippers, just in case mom and dad, or the school teachers didn't...
After nearly 60 years, I still remember The LONE RANGER & TONTO (with "Silver & Scout") visiting my grade-school and putting on a fabulous show of trick-riding and shooting... Yup! With live ammo! Can you imagine THAT great entertainment happening in schools today?... LOL! I still can hear "Tonto" (Jay Silverheels) in-character, at the conclusion of a flurry of fast-draw fanning, knife-throwing and shooting clay targets, with hay-bales for a backstop, the air still filled with gunsmoke, in the schoolyard saying something like: Hmmm... We have much fun with you today, but remember; guns plenty dangerous if you not careful. When you shoot, always to listen to father. Him know how to shoot safe."
One of my favorite memories of Roy Rogers was an interview late in his life. The interviewer asked if he had any regrets about his VERY successful singing career... "Only one" he said... "Giving 'Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer' to Gene Autry..." Roy said he HATED that song, and passed on it when offered to him. It became Gene's biggest hit EVER. Second only at Christmastime to Bing Crosby's "White Christmas".
Both Gene and Roy taught solid, American values to a generation of us... Both could ride and shoot as well in real life as most "genuine" wild-west cowboys. Gene's show was a little "sugar-coated" but Roy and his enemies would "shoot-to-kill" when necessary. He wasn't shy about showing kids that "actions bring consequences". Always. Yup! ALWAYS!!! In 1950, or 2013...
We could surely use men and women of the ilk of Roy and Dale in government today... SAD that they're gone. Even sadder that many don't even miss them. Or even know WHO they were... They were the "real-deal" role-models little kids had. They showed us the value of God, education, right-thinking, self-defense, AND the folly of prompting someone to need to defend themselves against us... They showed us how to use firearms, even at school. Today, THAT would be "politically incorrect" and replaced by more contemporary learning... like how to use condoms and rolling-papers.
I miss Gene and Roy...
Leo in Texas
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