"The Roy Rogers Show," starring Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys; Trigger, his golden palomino; and Dale Evans, Queen of the West; with Pat Brady, his comical sidekick; and Roy's wonder dog, Bullet.
Each week Roy & Dale would fight the "bad guys" with the help of the bumbling Pat Brady driving around in his jeep named "Nellybelle". Roy's transportation was always more reliable in the saddle of the most famous palomino in TV history, Trigger.
And so when I read today that The Roy Rogers Museum in Branson, MO. sold off all of its contents at auction & was closing its doors for good I couldn't help but feel a sense of loss. I had never been to the museum & only saw Roy & Dale "in person" years ago when they performed at The Big E in Springfield, Massachusetts ...but still, there it was, this sense of losing something from your youth that you can never get back. The reports of the closing & auction stated that Roy told his son (who was in charge of the museum) that if it ever stopped turning a profit to sell everything off. I guess in the age of DVD's & video games a place like Roy's museum wasn't very high on the list of places that today's kids want to go. But me, I took a minute to go to You Tube just to hear that introduction one more time and spend a few minutes at the "Double R Bar Ranch"......and didn't leave until Roy & Dale sang "Happy Trails" to me one more time.
http://youtu.be/eEqUyNaSdvg
