Kansas Nostomania
Nostomania(nos-tuh-MAY-nee-uh) noun...................................................................... An overwhelming desire to return home or to go back to familiar places.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Friday, July 13, 2012
My Husband 'Back in the Old West'
Wanted Joe 'Kidd' for bad acting!
This is picture of my Husband Joseph and it wasn't taken in the 1800's but in 1980's when he was 'Joe Kidd' in the Western Re-enactment Group, the Westport Possee. Black Powder Mayhem! He fancied himself as a cross between Clint Eastwood (Good Bad & Ugly era) and Tom Seleck (I wish)
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Saturday Morning ~ circa 1952
I feel like unwrapping a giant Hershey Bar, opening my
extra large bag of Ann Page potato chips, drinking my Coke in a
frosty
glass bottle, and plopping down on the sofa with my Dad for Saturday
morning television so we could
watch...
Sky King
The Lone Ranger and Tonto
Hopalong Cassidy
and the ultimate Saturday Western,
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans!
on our Giant Motorola Television!
Afterwords I would put on my Hopalong Cassidy suit and
boots
and go outside to ride my Hopalong Cassidy tricycle,
which I named
Trigger*...
I got my 'Hopalong Cassidy' Trike for appearing in a live WDAF television
commercial for the company my Dad worked
for,
Flavor Kist Cookies & Crackers. They were having a give-a-way
contest for a trip for a family of four to the set of Hopalong Cassidy in
Hollywood. They gave me the Hopalong Cassidy
Costume and the Hopalong Cassidy
Tricycle for doing the commercial. All I had to do was set on a live
pony while Randal Jessee, WDAF announcer, did his spiel about the
contest.
I cried for days when I
found out I didn't get to keep the pony.
I named my tricycle* 'Trigger' because I had a picture of the
ultimate
girl's tricycle in 1952. The
Roy Rogers Trigger Tricycle!
It probably made me a Capitalist for life!
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