When Coonskin Caps Were Cool

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[virgil283]

“I still have the memory of my father buying me a Davy Crockett outfit, complete with a coonskin cap,” evokes columnist Lewis Grizzard. Another Crockett fan, Russ Kane, says it was a staple of his childhood:“I was four years old [when the series came out]; I still remember wearing my coonskin cap with its furry tail, as my friends and I pretended to hunt bears and shoot unruly bad guys.”

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[Chickensoup]

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Here are the caps I used for my kids.

[kanawa]

From my cold dead hands...

[Chickensoup]

Love it, you, and the wagon.

[peteyd]

Oh the lentil soup nearly flew on to the computer.
My cousin said he was going to grow up and be Roy Rogers.
A co-worker and I talk about old time and she also wanted to be Annie Oakley and would take clothes pins and put them on the bottom of a skirt for buckskin fringe.

[eartrumpet]

Did they yell at you to pick it up before bedtime?

[wrench]

Fanner 50s and a Roy Rogers gun belt?

[Chickensoup]

I had something I have never seen again. A roy rogers ranch set with horses, and Tinkerbell and the house and everything. I would love to find it again. It was a solid place for me in a flying apart world.

They sent me a postcard that they signed. I was in heaven.

[RedMDer]

I can’t remember how we got in that parade. I was about 9 years old at the time and it felt strange to do it. Probably something to do with school. It must have made an impression because I remember it after all of this time.

[virgil283]

hey ....did you live next door?

you look familiar...