“An estimated 2,000 youngsters and their parents lined up along Jackson Street in downtown Batavia to enjoy the day's festivities. The Batavia Kresge's store became the city's ‘Davy Crockett headquarters,’ selling Crockett T-shirts and hats for $1 apiece, cap pistols for 69 cents, frontier bags for $2.98 and bill folds for 59 cents. You could buy a package of Davy Crockett cookies for 35 cents or enjoy a Crockett sundae for a quarter at the Kresge's soda fountain.”
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I don’t know if they were ever actually cool. I mean I liked them when I was a kid and wanted one, heck I’d still dig one. But that’s kind of a vote to them not being cool.
Boy, I sure hope that kid didn’t grow up to hold a real pistol like that. Ouch!
Now the kids all try to mimic Kim Kadarashian. Sad.
Certainly a cultural icon if there ever was one.
Cool. Back when America was great.
Couldn’t battle Mike Fink and the river pirates without a Davy Crockett coon skin cap.
Thanks for bringing back the memories. I had one of those caps and that same exact tent too. I was the coolest kid in my neighborhood wearing my coonskin hat with Zorro mask and cape while carrying my Zorro sword with a piece of chalk in the end of it to make cool “Z”s all over the place. LOL!
I think I still have the wallet. I also have a Bambi wallet somewhere too!
That wallet looks familiar.
I bet I had it when I was a kid
A lot of my friends had them out on the schoolyard but my family was not into squandering their hard earned dollars on such foolishness.
Although my best Christmas present ever was a set of six guns and double holster.
I had a similar pistol to the one shown. It was a double barrel over and under pirate pistol.
Sears Christmas catalog from the 50’s?
We lived with a creek and woods behind our house.
When I was a little girl my older brother Lloyd had a coonskin cap and some kind of buckskin jacket, just like Davy Crockett.
In our woods, running around with their plastic rifles and coonskin caps, they had their battles under the trees running through the blueberries and ferns with the other boys dressed like Indians carrying homemade quivers bows and arrows.
They made forts in trees, had ground forts, deep holes in the ground covered over with planks and dry leaves and went down in them and had meetings and I have no idea whatnot down in those fabulous secret forts. They drew ‘maps’ of planned military strategies, and wore those same costumes on Halloween as well.
I was five years younger, and a girl to boot, not part of the action but I wish I could go back and watch them build their forts and chase the Indians again.
Those are some of my most favorite memories I have.
My little brother had the lunch box, wallet, and pistol.
But he was spoiled rotten ...
I got Flash Jr. one when we visited the Alamo last year.
It was a great experience, even though the basement was closed for remodeling.
I loved Annie Oakely and had the whole out fit and loved the smell of that leather holster that held the six shooter.
BUMP.
If the Washington football team adopted that as their new name, they could be cool, too.