Archive for December 31st, 2011

A GREETING FROM PDX RETRO

 Happy_New_Year

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THE KING MARRIED THE QUEEN ON THIS DAY IN 1947

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Roy Rogers met Dale Evans in 1944 when she was cast in a movie along with
Roy. Following the death of his second wife ,Grace Arline, Rogers and Evans
soon fell in love, and Rogers proposed to her during a rodeo at Chicago
Stadium. They married on New Year’s Eve in 1947 at the Flying L Ranch in
Davis, Oklahoma, where a few months earlier they had filmed Home in
Oklahoma
. Rogers and Evans remained married until Rogers’s death
in 1998.

Home-in-Oklahoma-movie-poster-(1946)

roy and dale 1995
Roy and Dale in 1995

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LAST EPISODE OF RADIO SHOW ON THIS DAY IN 1954

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WILD BILL
Guy Madison and Andy Devine

The CBS radio western “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” featured movie star
Guy Madison as the lead, and film veteran Andy Devine as his sidekick Jingles. Both remained with the series for its entire run with the final episode airing on Friday, December 31,1954 . Kellogg’s was the sponsor of the show from start to finish. “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” was also on television (CBS/ABC) from 1951 to 1958
with the same cast as the radio show.

Wild Bill Hickok promo 5

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