Posted on 12/25/2009 6:20:24 AM PST by Zakeet
Roy Rogers and his trusty steed Trigger may have come to the end of their "Happy Trails" - television's most famous horse is going on the auction block, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.
The beloved golden palomino's home, the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum, has closed - doomed by bitter family feuding, greed, mounting debts and IRS demands.
Trigger - stuffed in a familiar pose, rearing majestically on hind legs - will join Dale Evans' horse Buttermilk, their beloved German shepherd Bullet and other Rogers memorabilia in bidding that's expected to reach into the multimillions of dollars.
Fans around the world were stunned by the news that the museum in Branson, Mo., abruptly closed its doors on Dec. 12 after being open to fans for 42 years.
"Negotiations are underway for Trigger, Buttermilk and Bullet to be sold at auction in New York next summer," an insider told The ENQUIRER. "The IRS has valued Trigger alone at $1 million - not bad for a horse Roy paid $25,000 for when he was alive!
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We had a 13 inch Philco in a wood cabinet. My grandfather spoke limited broken english. We would watch all of the “cowboy” shows and You Bet Your Life. I can understand the attraction to the westerns, but I don’t know how he kept up with Groucho’s wise cracks. Miss him very much.
I’m glad I was able to visit the museum in September. It was great seeing Trigger, Buttermilk, and Bullet again — even though they had been stuffed. (How many folks stuff their pets?)
To quote WC Fields, “Get out of here, kid. You smell like peanuts and popcorn.”
Actually, I saw George Romney Sr. exiting the capitol in Lansing when I was about 12. He had had a bad day and I showed. I never forgot that.
When I was doing Sat. afternoon matinees, there were no after school serials. There was no TV!...but Westerns have been forever.
Here’s a link to the best Sky King episode, “The Silver Grave”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogxUThj2ffE&feature=PlayList&p=F0ADDB26402568E0&index=16
Enjoy, and Merry Christmas
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Branson, Mo.?, I thought the museum was in Victorville, CA?!
Yes, the museum moved in the early 2000s. I remember I went to visit the museum in Victorville with my kids in 1999. I was a big fan of Roy Rodger's reruns in the late 1960s. I am currently 46. However, what I saw at the museum made me think twice about who RR exactly was...
He was a avid wild game hunter, but he went way too far in my book. He actually killed enough monkeys to show the old saying, “Hear no evil, See no evil and Speak no evil”
That was disgusting! A fan no longer.
I’m fifty one and barely made it under the wire. The last year I remember them on TV regularly was 1963. Their show was in Saturday re-runs.
I do believe that celebrities of that area would get tired of being happy faced 24 hours a day, and would have an off day with fans from time to time, but that fans wouldn't forget it is natural. He was one of our hero's.....
The celebrities of today would punch you in the face or give you the finger....(not all, but many)
When I was young, I was in the Buffalo Bob and Howdy-Doody Peanut Gallery. I was also in the audience for a Bozo the Clown show.
My Dad was in the Army with Armed Forces Radio and met many of the Hollywood Stars from the 1940’s. He worked the tape machines for the Radio shows. Frank Sinatra . . . threw his lighter at my Dad because he [Frank] kept missing his cue. Frank wasn’t that good of a pitcher, missed my Dad completely.
Good memories or bad, those were so much safer days. And happier, too, because I didn’t have a worry in the world . . . my parents, on the other hand . . . .
Amen.
I ride a motorcycle, but in my heart I’m ridin’ the range in my white hat with my six gun by my side.
In those days we learned to be good citizens from the old westerns and, believe it or not, cartoons.
They did a lot of things right.
Sad their values didn’t get THAT effectively transmitted to the next generation.
I was a big fan growing up.
Saw him once in a parade in Albuquerque at age 70 something. He was very well preserved!
Lord, please help the family get its act together. Sigh.
Grieved to hear such stories.
He sure knows the score, now.
INDEED.
Hi Ho Silver
Fibber McGee and Molly
Amos and Andy (were forced off TV because it (stereotyped black) but was a funny show...
Bob Hope show (Geez I am getting old, cannot remember the others, but Radio was great. You used your imagination to follow a story, unlike TV where you watch what someone else imagined.
True.
I was born in ‘47. Got to see all the greats on our 10” round black and white TV. All free (except commercials) from an antenna on our roof.
In about ‘85, when cable began, it was advertised as “commercial free TV”. Now, we pay to watch commercials.
Lots of pressures leave many folks out of sorts for however long. We all can have ‘bad days.’
I know of a famous Christian . . . group that we all love their songs and ministry dearly . . . so folksy and friendly, warm, down home etc. . . . they were featured on a cruise . . . my Mother’s cousin and wife went . . . the whole musical team were cold, standoffish, unfriendly—quite in contrast to their usual public persona. Sad to hear.
Were they just tired of all the fawning over them etc. etc. etc.? I don’t know.
But if you aren’t genuine in your work and ministry, how can you be genuine at home. If unfriendly on a cruise is your normal persona, doesn’t say much for your Christianity, seems to me.
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