Monday, March 25, 2019, 12:25 pm — Kitty’s Happy Trails (to Wyoming) party … It started with a parade …
A librarian moment … Season 1, episode 24, May, 2010 …
“Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City”– Oklahoma!, 1955
The Roy Rogers Riders Club began in 1948 … a message to kids in movie theaters …
“You know, boys and girls, the real purpose of the Riders Club is for all of us to get together and become better acquainted. Help each other, especially help prevent any and all kinds of accidents. Do that for me, will ya?
“You know, the best Roy Rogers Riders are the ones who live up to the rules on the back of your membership card.
“Well, sir, right now, Trigger and I have got a few things to take care of in Hollywood, so we’re going to turn this meeting over to the ranch foreman of our club, the manager of this theater.
“I’ll be looking for you at our meeting next week, so be sure to be here. And until then, from Trigger and me, goodbye, good luck, and may the good Lord take a likin’ to ya! See ya next week!”
A letter to the “ranch foreman” of the club … “… many more angles can be used in conducting the Club. What I have in mind is good old American ingenuity on the part of you, the Exhibitor.”
Brief history of the Roy Rogers Riders Club, from Ultimate Roy Rogers Collection: Identification & Price Guide, 2001 – (googlebooks – not all pages available)
November 8, 2014 — Happy Birthday Trails to Roy Rogers … November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998 …
November 3, 2014 — In real life, he was an intelligent, well groomed and articulate man, but cast as a grizzled codger who sputtered phrases like “consarn it,” “yer durn tootin,” “dadgumit,” “durn persnickety female,” and “young whippersnapper.” … Who is it? … Gabby Hayes, 1885-1969!
Transcribing my 1977 list of Likes, Dislikes, Quotes, & Miscellanea … there he was on the 4th page, a major like, even if his last name is misspelled …
Gabby was the best gol’durn sidekick a feller could have … most frequently with Roy Rogers, 41 teamings from 1939-1946 … Below, Sunset in El Dorado, 1945 …
He consorted with a high-class feller, name of Gary Cooper … The Plainsman, 1936 … James Ellison on left …
Hey, kids! … Let’s all go to the Gabby Hayes Ranch! … 1952-1953 … Funny thing, twern’t out West at all … but back in East Jewett, New York … Gabby was a New York born and raised feller … Now, that’s gol’durn good actin’, I tell ya!
Left- Gabby and his wife, Olive, were married 1914-1957 … Right- George Hayes, before he was Gabby … and before the beard …
Takin’ us out with a song in 1946 … Gabby was a regular on radio’s The Roy Rogers Show …
But wait … there’s more! …dagnabbit! Yes siree, Bob!
June 23, 2013 — I was there … July 1959 … and still have the souvenir program! … Read it over and over after we moved to Tillamook, December 1959 … Went with Mom, Dad, cousins Debra, Laurie … Portland, Oregon, Centennial Arena … Aunt Dorothy babysat Wendy, Russ, Glenwood house …
From Billboard, July 20, 1959.
June 23, 2013 — Perkins meets Trigger … who’s been in a box with my other horse statues for … 40 years!!
Trigger has been rough and tumbled and played with since Christmas 1959 … Nothing is left of Roy Rogers … only his white cowboy hat … I remember playing with the new Trigger and Roy in the dirt on the low backyard hill behind the Wilson River house, Tillamook, Oregon, 1960, before the 4th grade …
This is what he would have looked like on Christmas Day … By Hartland Plastics, Inc., Wisconsin. Selling on eBay, mint condition with box, $650 … My Trigger, battered and faded, is priceless!
Trigger’s original palomino color matches Perk’s orange tabby cat fur!
Lucile giving advice to her niece, Frances Farmer:
Lucile: ” I’m just an old weather-beaten Westerner – not that I haven’t had some experience handlin’ men. In the mountains up our way the boys make passes like any other male critter. And believe me, when a girl’s fought her way through those mountain passes, she’s done somethin’!”
Roy Rogers (left corner, uncredited), Martha Raye, Bing Crosby – Rhythm on the Range, 1936
Aug. 26, 2009
Movies, Of Course! 