Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers, remember him? Obv. ROY ROGERS RIDERS LUCK PIECE
Rev. GOOD LUCK FOREVER with his horse Trigger in a horseshoe.

This is from the late 1940's.

 

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Yes I remember, think I even have a Token of him somewhere in my stuff, not the exact same one though! Yes, and Trigger too!

 

Remember Roy Rogers? He was arguably one of, if not the greatest self promoter in history!

 

Interesting, just last Friday night I purchased on DVD and watched Die Hard for the first time since seeing it in Theaters in Japan in 1988. Roy Rogers was referenced in the dialog. Willis also went by the name "Roy" before Hans knew his real name. The famous catch-phrase Roy Rogers used was also part of the dialog.

 

Back in the day, all of us kids had some sort of Roy Rogers gear or clothing. A watchdog group years ago counted the number of violent acts in the old Roy Rogers TV shows. Typically within the first 3 minutes of the show, Roy would get into a 5-7 minute knock-down, drag-out fist fight with the bad guys. So by the end of the show, the violent acts count was extremely high by today's standards for young kids. Ah, the good old days. Yippie ki-yay!

 

Roy Rogers was tame. He never killed anybody. All he did was shoot the gun out of their hands. Most any of the prime time TV "old west" shows in the 1950s and early '60s were more violent. I remember seeing one half hour show with my parents called "Tate" that showed nine people getting killed during.

I remember getting really excited as a kid when my local movie theater owner told me that they were getting a Roy Rogers film the next week.

I read that Roy got his break when Gene Autry went on a salary strike.

 

I have an old candy box of him,nice token.

 

I was really sad to see his museum closed and sold off in 2009. I met him once when I was little, at some promotional in L.A. He was a hero to most children my age and we loved Trigger and Bullet too. I had his lunch pail along with Hopalong Cassidy's.
Him not killing bad guys in the movies was more due to censorship of the times. Heck, they even band showing popular couples sleeping in one bed.

 

Had a Roy Rogers pocket knife and read my baby sister Dale Evans bedtime stories.

 

Let us not forget Dale Evans.

 

You just beat me to it. You remembered her.

 

Yes a lot of people get killed in Gunsmoke. It's probably rare to have an episode without at least one person getting shot and killed.

 

Roy Rogers was not geared to the same audience that other westerns were.

 

Under rated food place where you could have gun holster fries

 

You can have fries along with your gastric disturbance.

 

Who cares you have a sidearm of fries lol

 

Wait until you get an old stomach like mine, my friend!

 

The same with The Rifleman (my personal favorite). Lucas McCain killed hundreds in the series.

 

You Roy Rogers kids are all fine and well, but us Captain Midnight cool kids got our decoder badges! (circa 1940s / Golden Age comics) D-r-i-n-k-y-o-u-r-o-v-a-l-t-i-n-e...

 

But toward the end of its run, as my mother’s cleaning lady said, “He forgot where his rifle was.” The screen writers must have reacted to some complaints.