Thread: Those old westerns

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This should bring back some fond memories for us graybeards. Gary Cooper, the Duke, William Holden, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOxTxmoYs4Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXc4vavKyv8&NR=1

Don

Love the old westerns. My grandmother used to take me on Saturdays for the matinee (I believe it was 11 cents for under 8 years old and 15 for over and a quarter for adults). The kids and the dedicated parent or relative would line up in droves at the little theater in Buchanan, Michigan.

If you would like a real piece of nostalgia, John Wayne's house is for sale again in Newport Beach.
Ken

They also just auctioned off most of the memorabilia at Roy Rogers Museum and the said that every item brought top dollar.

Don, I must be a FAN because I recognized all of those clips on the YouTube links.

Don't forget Bob Steele. He was a favorite when I was a kid. Oh, and Lash LaRue....and Johnny Mack Brown....and Hopalong Cassidy....I carried a Hopalong lunch box to school....

Ken's post has had me thinking and googling old cowboys and cowgirl stars and I ran across this pretty cool link.

http://www.jimwegryn.com/Names/Cowboys.htm

My wife asks me "How can you watch those same cowboy movies over and over?" Love John Wayne movies and Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark and Jimmy Stewart and.........

When I was but a wee lad of 5 my grandfather would give me a quarter after he got home from work on Friday night and I would walk the 3 blocks or so the 2nd movie theater in town, Lebanon, Ohio 1948, that ran mostly westerns. It was always a double feature with a cartoon and Movietone News.
Bob Steele and Johnny Mack Brown were two of my favorites.
Around 1958 or 59 I was at the county fair in Dayton, Ohio and as I was wandering around the back lots I spied a man working a horse and I recognized him immediately. It was Johnny Mack Brown and I talked to him for about a half an hour. Quite a guy.
In 1967 I was in an electronic store in Anaheim, Calif. buying a tachometer kit and in walked Andy Devine. He was a ham radio buff and the second biggest man, size wise, I've ever met.

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

If you would like a real piece of nostalgia, John Wayne's house is for sale again in Newport Beach.
Ken

Ken, I did yard work at that house before JW bought it. Belonged to Elgin
Gates when I was in school. Used to get chewed out for tire marks on
the colored driveway.
Ron

Originally Posted by shoprat

Ken, I did yard work at that house before JW bought it. Belonged to Elgin
Gates when I was in school. Used to get chewed out for tire marks on
the colored driveway.
Ron

Ron,
That's funny, did you ever go down to the Duke's boat?
Ken

Did anybody notice how many times the same guy would get shot? I think they only had a few guys that could fall off a horse at speed!!!