My childhood Christmas presents were cap pistols with rolls of caps. Also got cowboy hats and shirts. Roy Rodgers was my favorite TV show. My Aunt got me a Wondor Horse spring rocking horse in 1960 for my 2nd birthday.
The spring rocking horse is still in my garage gathering rust. The only childhood toy I ever kept. The kids in the neighborhood loved it 20 years ago when my daughter was little girl.
I still have a Hop-Along Cassidy watch, it doesn’t work but I’ve got it.
Get that rocking horse renovated — for your grandchildren and great grandchildren!
Roy and Dale are buried at the Sunset Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary at the Northeast end of Apple Valley, CA in the high desert. There is a chapel named after them on the grounds that their donations partially helped to build; completed after their deaths. When I’ve visited, few, if any, people at their modest gravesite, except me. Lots of roads & landmarks named after them in Apple Valley and nearby, but generations are losing memory of who they were — the first truly international celebrities.