Roy and Dale?

[tallyho8]

Roy was one of my favorite heroes also. I rode a beautiful Palomino like Trigger in the Mardi Gras parades and was usually the lead horse in the group because of her looks and had to wear a white hat and clothes like Roy and even though I didn't resemble him much, it always made me feel great when some young kid would say to his mother "look mom, it's Roy Rogers.
I don't know if my grandson even knows who Roy was.

 

[MossRoad]

When I was little, the kid across the street always wanted to play Roy Rogers. I always had to be the bad guy. Well, Roy always beat up the bad guys. I had enough of that pretty fast. I'm pretty sure I broke his nose after about the 3rd day. He ran home and got his mom. She asked why I did it and I told her he'd hit me about a hundred times over the last few days, wouldn't ever let me be Roy, and I was tired of it....

We weren't allowed to play Roy Rogers any more after that day.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I am a wee bit surprised at your photo - I imagined you as being younger and somewhat more conservative. I would never wear a shirt like that - even in private, nor a pink one!

I do remember Roy Rogers though, and Trigger, in Saturday afternoon films, but cannot recall ever hearing about his wife until later in life.

Have to admit I always saw John Wayne as my western hero, and I longed for the day when Jack Palance would survive to the end of the film. That did eventually happen.

I am very conservative; however I am very casual in my dress. I look a bit haggard and frumpy; I'm going through a series of chemo and radiation treatments.

 

[shooterdon]

I am very conservative; however I am very casual in my dress. I look a bit haggard and frumpy; I'm going through a series of chemo and radiation treatments.

Good luck...will pray for you

 

[oldballs]

Hey Cruz..........prayers for you.....

Mike

 

[JasperFrank]

My grandfather got a Shetland Pony, for some reason. I think he wanted to show us, as very young children, how to control a horse to pull a cart. When he was a young child, they would ride a horse drawn carriage. He wanted to recreate that experience for us. This pony was named Trigger. It was the nastiest, meanest, most stubborn and frankly, a dangerous animal to have around. It would walk up to you and then rear kick you in the gut for no reason, then turn around and try to bite you. You couldn't even field this pony with any other live stock. It would attack them like some sort of mad rottweiler pony. Trigger eventually went the glue farm with no tears shed.

 

[stuckmotor]

Rex Allen was my favorite. And I often preferred the "sidekicks" to the star.

I met Andy Devine when I was 4-6, before ever seeing a movie. I was just told he was a movie cowboy.

Bruce

As a kid, I liked the stars. Today, the side kicks are my favorites.

 

[/pine]

I had a double gun belt just like Roys...I'm pretty sure it was a branded toy set...I think they were actually cap guns...
...All I remember about them was when you strapped them on you felt empowered...!
We had branded mugs, cereal bowls and lunch boxes etc. from all the old western shows etc...

 

[ultrarunner]

No one mentioned Hopalong Cassidy and his horse Topper with sidekick California?

Everytime I hear Roy Rogers I think of the male drink version of a Shirley Temple.

My young nieces... all under 10 were in a wedding... at the reception there was an open bar and all the adults were having a good time and the girls were kind of on the sidelines.

I mosey up to the bar and order 3 Shirley Temples and the bar tender said we have hard drinks... to which I said even for bridesmaids under 10. (Of course Hoppy would have ordered Sarsaparilla)

Those girls had so much fun and became really sophisticated young ladies... umbrella in the drink of course.

Yes... they would know Roy Rogers and his third wife Dale from the Black and Gray VHS tapes I have...

Happy Trails to You!

 

[Bird]

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were the very best. But as a youngster I was even more of a Gene Autry fan. I'm sure that was the result of a relative who knew him when they were kids AND the fact that I used to show hogs (from the time I was 10 years old) at the county fair where the rodeo coliseum was named the Gene Autry Coliseum. In later years they renamed it to the Hardy Murphy Coliseum.