When I was but a wee lad of 5 my grandfather would give me a quarter after he got home from work on Friday night and I would walk the 3 blocks or so the 2nd movie theater in town, Lebanon, Ohio 1948, that ran mostly westerns. It was always a double feature with a cartoon and Movietone News.
Bob Steele and Johnny Mack Brown were two of my favorites.
Around 1958 or 59 I was at the county fair in Dayton, Ohio and as I was wandering around the back lots I spied a man working a horse and I recognized him immediately. It was Johnny Mack Brown and I talked to him for about a half an hour. Quite a guy.
In 1967 I was in an electronic store in Anaheim, Calif. buying a tachometer kit and in walked Andy Devine. He was a ham radio buff and the second biggest man, size wise, I've ever met.