Oh, believe me, I know about the Encore Westerns channel. Heck, it was one of the reasons I got the dish in the first place, back in 1996!
I’m always partial to the western genre. In fact, I’m on a pretty big kick of collecting dvd’s of 1920s-era silent westerns right now. Hoot Gibson, Jack Hoxie, Tom Mix, Yakima Canutt, Leo Maloney, Bob Custer, Harry Carey, etc. Incredible americana. I love the stuff. The whole mentality and worldview it represents. Reminds me of my late grandparents’ and their attitudes... a combination of straightforward, no-nonsense reality and conservatism, coupled with an old-world romanticism. The exact opposite of modern American culture in so many ways.
Oh, believe me, I know about the Encore Westerns channel.
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Seems you know what I meant! Saturday’s in the late ‘40s-early ‘50s meant going to the local theater with neighbor kids, buying a ticket for 10 cents and watching films from about 9am-5pm.
Always a serial, with a new episode each week. A Western or two with Tom Mix, Lash Larue, John Wayne, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, etc. Maybe a Ma and Pa Kettle. Cartoons. Bomba the Jungle Boy. .....The theater even held drawings for things like bikes and BB-guns.
It was really great for us kids (prior to having TV at home) to spend a whole day being entertained. ....It was ALSO great for the parents, as they knew they had the opportunity to create siblings for those of us at the theater! (The houses in my neighborhood were typically about 700-800 sqft.)