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Thank you for the welcome! Roy Rogers was quite the marketing juggernaut in those days... They did nationwide tours that were a bit like the Wild West shows of days gone by... there would be trick riding and gun play, music and dancing.... Roy’s image sold everything from comic books, cap pistols, lunch boxes and everything else short of possibly only his own line of aquarium gravel!!! My father was in his band, The Riders of the Purple Sage and appeared in about 30 of Roy’s films around the late 40s to early 50s era... He was also in a few Republic films with Rex Allen, known as “The Arizona Cowboy” as a member of “The Republic Rythm Riders” ... My mother had just finished a tour with Gene Autry in a dance act and they got picked up to go on the Roy Rogers tour.... Yadda, yadda yadda... I was born about 11 years later!!! I have a lot of pics from the era... more noir than architectural but, You’ll be seeing more from me in days to come! Onward we go!!! Hookster :) PS... Here are a few pics I just snapped from a program from one of the RR tours... it gives a glimpse of the size stadiums they were filling (LA Colosseum in this case)...and a hint of the amount of merchandising as well! :) My dad was part of the weekly radio show advertised with the Quaker Oats ad... :) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...911de9a5_c.jpgUntitled by l, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...16b4fa64_c.jpgUntitled by l, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...152efa01_c.jpgUntitled by l, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...54446628_c.jpgUntitled by l, on Flickr Onward!!! |
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I was too young at that time to be aware of it.....but I do remember a lot of interest in it. Yes, onward.! |
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I suppose one could say architecture reflects the ethos if its times, and the streamline look of mid-century appealed to 50's and 60's sensibilities. We're temporarily living in Porto, Portugal so we can travel in Europe. Many of the medieval churches here underwent Rococo "renovations" in the 1700's and they can be overwhelming. Individual elements can be gorgeous, but taken as a whole it's almost anxiety-inducing; there's nowhere for your eyes or mind to rest. |
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Admittedly Roy's heyday was over before I came along as well but, his TV show from '51-'57 was still being aired in reruns when I was little... Here is a bit more Hollywood Cowboy stuff from 1948... Souvenir Program from a Western Hall of Fame event, at The Olympic Auditorium, with lots of local sponsorship advertising... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9ca89172ee.jpgUntitled by l, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d4bff35ff5.jpgUntitled by l, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...213a920a65.jpgUntitled by l, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...873e63f02d.jpgUntitled by l, on Flickr BDiH.. This page mentions Herbert Yates... :) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1c1c58f5d0.jpgUntitled by l, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5fdde601d0.jpgUntitled by l, on Flickr Onward we go!! Hookster :) |
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I also wanted to post this link with great pics and tribute to the old California Museum of Science and Industry in Exposition Park... It was totally redone and renamed The California Science Center so all the exhibits of old live on only in memory... http://whmsicl.cnc.net/CMSI.html Additionally, This site goes into mysterious goings on beneath the adjacent old armory building... I was in that building often when I was young and can attest to there being very dark and foreboding underground tunnels and rooms that were only partially covered with loose plywood at the time... https://www.brotherhoodofthepurplefez.com/ Onward Marches Time... |
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Cheers, Earl |
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If by chance your user name is Bonanza related, My father also did some work with them when he produced this album by the cast... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6762cc50_o.jpgUntitled by l, on Flickr It is still available on Amazon and YouTube in it's entirety... I remember he said he took Lorne Greene to lunch at The Brown Derby during one of the days they were recording and they were mobbed... Bonanza was in it's peak then! Onward we go! Hookster :) |
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These two slides are on eBay and they're goin' like gangbusters. We've seen this corner of Sunset and Vine a million times it seems but in this view the photographer is standing a bit farther back from the street corner. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/qgzegs.jpg Link Note the red pole with white 'icicles'. I remember seeing one next to Angels Flight. (I said it was decorated for Christmas and, if I remember correctly, someone had the audacity to disagree with me ;)) And what, pray tell, is the small box on the thin pole? Literature for tourists? 16 bids so far. It's up to $99.00 This next slide is a dandy too! As you can see it shows the Hollywood Radio & Television Institute. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/snbhb8.jpg Link Off to the side, and somewhat hidden in the trees, you can see a small theater (Music Box). The current production is 'Teahouse of the August Moon'. I wonder if the man in the blue shirt with the yellow umbrella is selling Maps to the Stars. At first I thought the sidewalk was a broadwalk but now I see that's it's some kind of raised porch. hmmm, but it's not a porch because the man is standing behind it. 8 bids so far. Up to $21.50. . |
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I believe this is the URL for this 1962 album. Yes Bonanza was popular at that time with an audience of 42 million...up there with Lucy. https://youtu.be/jleVbUJDyDE |
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If it is Maria Cooper in the middle, her apparent age and the ladies' fashions would lead me to guess the picture was from the mid to late 1950s. Cheers, Earl |
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