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Post subject: Re: What are you watching?
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 10:56 pm
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Glenn, you are correct that ABC’s most popular 50’s show The Lone Ranger was in early colour.

Like Superman, it too was shot in colour throughout the series.

Disputes arose with contracts. The dashing cowboy and his faithful friend made two successful feature colour movies amongst the TV turmoil. The Lone Ranger in 1956, and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City Of Gold In 1958. In between was the only season of colour telecasting broadcast in 1957 (still pretty early for the industry and general public).

That beats Superman by 8 years. His first telecast in colour was in 1965.

As a little kid, along with the other cowboy heroes, I got to meet The Lone Ranger and Tonto at a children’s matinee club run by the theatre. After all, Tonto was Jay Silverheels (Harold Preston Smith), a Canadian Mohawk Golden Gloves athlete who excelled in Lacrosse, and our town was steeped in professional box lacrosse. The Lone Ranger was in colour when I saw him. :shock:
Today I have reel to reel Rogers and Autry recordings and a collection of the major cowboy heroes on videos. They sit next to my pirate movies. :D
Aargh me hearty! :lol:
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Get the Hell out! I saw The Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore also, when I was about 5 years old at a mall in Bergen County, NJ. I had a photo he gave out to everyone. They were all hand signed at the time he gave it to ya'. I always respected Clayton Moore for doing that for just a bunch of little kids. He took the time to answer questions from all of the kids, and didn't try to hurry us up and get out of there. I'm a Lone Ranger Fan, (Clayton Moore) till the day I close my eyes for the last time.

Holey macaroni, that’s cool pardner. I’ll bet it was an 8x10, Glenn. The Lone Ranger was very cool with his faithful sidekick Tonto, and I think even the radio version was one of the better ones. He was a nice guy that’s for sure, we always got a signed photo in those days. Trouble with mine is they somehow vanished, but that’s okay as there must’ve been a kazillion out there.

I remember waiting in line to go up on stage, and there were kids in cowboy, Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone hats. Our heroes usually had their sidekicks with them (like Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles, Cisco and Pancho (who was the first Cisco Kid), Roy and Dale. Etc.).

Lots of fun back then right, Glenn? I can even remember a couple of the western heroes showing up together. The Trekkies and Comicon seem to have it today.

But, the best is when the theatre was filled with kids and we’d all shout at the screen, “Watch out behind you! The bad guys are behind you!”, as if that made any difference Ha! Ha! Then the serial usually ended with a mine explosion or a horse jump from a cliff. We had to come back next week to see if they survived.

Standing in the lineup outside discussing last week’s episode amongst the kids, we used to buy a huge horseshoe sucker from an adjacent Institute for the Blind booth beside the movie theatre. The jovial totally blind merchant always knew what was paid and how much change to return. He was great with kids and even with the brats who could never pull anything over him. We thought that was cool. The inch thick sucker lasted for days. And then we’d blow through one end of a Glosette chocolate raisin box with a cellophane window. Sounded somewhere between a paper and comb and a horn. One kid would start and then everybody took turns until it was all together. I once saw one of the serials have a film break. The poor projectionist thought the kids were going to hang him like a mad posse. Huge cheers came with a film fix.

A friend of my family used to go to the Saturday morning shows with me and later spoiled me with a Hopalong Cassidy outfit with white hat, vest, amulets, chaps, spurs, and double pistols. It sucked growing out of it. Thankfully, later there was Mattel’s shooting derringer (and if you were lucky it would be the one that snapped into your western buckle), and Bat Masterson’s Buntline Special.

As we got older we’d play a game to see how many of our heroes’ horses we could remember, and which one belonged to which hero. Including the sidekicks’ horse is even more difficult. There always seems to be at least one that fans forget without looking it up. That’s something you might want to try. It’s fun and a good way to impress other armchair cowboys.

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My mom, for a time, was a cow girl from Alberta. The horse I occasionally rode was half quarter horse and half Arabian. His name was Ali Kahn. I couldn’t ride like Clayton though. “ Hi ho what’s his name?” :D

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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 11:25 pm
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Post subject: Re: What are you watching?
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 8:50 am
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If you want to feel even older, a lot of people in their 20's who have never known what life was like before the internet. :P

Try running out of gas or having car trouble without a cellphone or a nearby phone booth where you could call a cab or a tow truck. It was especially fun in 40 below or a downpour. Isolation was a trip.

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As for the Internet, I miss dialup sound effects. :P


I know what you're talking about, sans the -40 degrees part, fortunately. It's been brutally cold with blizzard conditions, but it hasn't hit that low, at least since I've been here. I've actually only had a cellphone/smartphone for over a year. I never carried one before that, but my girlfriend insisted. :P It's actually a good idea to have one, especially since pay phones are rare as rocking horse poop these days. I guess we can also safely say there's a generation out there that's never even seen a payphone, too.

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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 8:51 am
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:48 am
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The interesting thing is that, as useless and time consuming the technology can be at times, having the Internet and cell communication has saved so many lives. Even having spent time on water, a cellphone can make a huge difference in time of need, and when I was a ten year old Cub Scout I got on the wrong trail and I was lost for hours in the woods when it got dark. Providing I could have gotten a signal (unlikely), today’s communication would have prevented a lot of cuts and bruises on my bare legs and a lot of other things. At the very least I could have taken some great selfies of bears and cougars had they introduced themselves. :shock:
How did we get by without those things? We were naturals being inventive with skills missing from today’s youth because, thankfully, our elders taught us their ways. IMHO.

Ah, yes. It’s a good day in the neighbourhood. Even better if you can survive without dependency on all that technology. Good luck on that. :lol:
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Post subject: Re: What are you watching?
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 10:04 am
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That's a good point, although I don't understand people that go out to restaurants together, and they have their faces buried in their iPhones. What the hell is the point in even going then? :roll:

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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 10:28 am
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You’re right there. Many can’t even order an ice cream cone or a hot dog without texting. :lol:
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 10:37 am
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I’m watching CNN.

North Korea may or may not be blowing it out of their hat. They’ve just announced they are rejecting diplomacy. So much for that working. :shock:
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Sounds like Kruschev and Kennedy. What’s next? Taking the shoes off and slamming the desk. :lol:
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:41 pm
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I guess that means they'll bring back "duck and cover" in schools? :roll: That was a friggin' useless exercise, as far as nuclear devastation is concerned. :P

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That's not good, FSB. I really thought Kim would eventually back off.
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I guess that means they'll bring back "duck and cover" in schools? :roll: That was a friggin' useless exercise, as far as nuclear devastation is concerned. :P

I remember those days well. Get under you desk, put your head between your knees and kiss your a@# goodbye. :roll:

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Here in Canada we (at least I) never had Duck and Cover. We were more practical and just reached for the sky and said, “Whoo boy! I guess that’s the end of the hockey season.” :lol:
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I guess that means they'll bring back "duck and cover" in schools? :roll: That was a friggin' useless exercise, as far as nuclear devastation is concerned. :P

I remember those days well. Get under you desk, put your head between your knees and kiss your a@# goodbye. :roll:


I was probably the last generation to practice that in school in the late 70's, unless they only practiced the drill in elementary school. We never did in middle or high school going into the 80's.

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