Thread: Those old westerns

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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.

One of my movie channels on cable is nothing but old Western's! Every morning starting at about 6AM I can watch Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel, Cheyenne, and Lawman! After them, if it's one of my lazy mornings, I can catch a movie--this morning was Rio Concho.....

Even some of the more modern movies like True Grit and all of Clint Eastwoods movies were very cool. Old Rooster Cogburn was such a great character for the Duke in his later years, same with the Shootist.

Richard, I forgot all about Lash LaRue. The Rifleman and Johnny Rebel were also good ones.

Don

A fair amount of TV Westerns are on www.hulu.com check it out! Ran across them when I watched the Adam 12 episode where Kent McCords' '54 Ford Gasser whips Gary Crosbys' Camaro.

Most of you guys have a year or three on me..but I do remember Rawhide,Cheyenne,Gunsmoke of course,,Lawman rings a bell or two as well..One of the local channels in the South I sland does reruns of some OLD westerns,,good ol black and white,,but I never seem to be around for long when they are on,,always seems to be when I am supposed to be working.....Hey,werent things simpler back then...

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

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.

I never would have known this about you unless Thurm started this thread....Very cool....
I always tell people I haven't missed much in my years on this planet, 'cause I've been to 3 Country Fairs and a Goat Ropin'.

I'm a Clint Eastwood fan.
The real early westerns are funny to me. Plus having greeks and italians play the indians didn't help.

Originally Posted by DeepRoots

I'm a Clint Eastwood fan.
The real early westerns are funny to me. Plus having greeks and italians play the indians didn't help.

That is some funny stuff. Greeks/Italians. ROFLMAO.
I don't know why it reminded me, but it did when you said the real early westerns were funny. When I was a Boy Scout, our Scoutmaster used to have our meetings in the basement of a local church. There was a projector and screen there and he used to run those real old cowboy movies backwards. And of course the cowboys riding backwards into town, then walking backwards into the saloon. I remember some of them were talkies and there would be gibberish coming out of their mouths. You talk about funny to a kid.....with the smoke going back into the guns and the horses running backwards. Man oh man, it was hoot and holler time for us kids. That is one of my fondest memories of my childhood.

one of my favorite westerns is magnificent 7. what a great movie with a great soundtrack. One western actor that i did not see and that i enjoy was eli wallach. perfect bad guy. I am also a fan of the spaghetti westerns. The sound that they dubbed for the winchester rifle was always funny. must be that all guns in italy squeak.

Yeah, I know what you mean about the rifle sounds. Another funny thing of the old westerns was how the cowboys got 100 rounds out of a 6 shooter without reloading.

Don

yes

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

If you would like a real piece of nostalgia, John Wayne's house is for sale again in Newport Beach.
Ken

Ken, I did yard work at that house before JW bought it. Belonged to Elgin
Gates when I was in school. Used to get chewed out for tire marks on
the colored driveway.
Ron

Originally Posted by shoprat

Ken, I did yard work at that house before JW bought it. Belonged to Elgin
Gates when I was in school. Used to get chewed out for tire marks on
the colored driveway.
Ron

Ron,
That's funny, did you ever go down to the Duke's boat?
Ken

Did anybody notice how many times the same guy would get shot? I think they only had a few guys that could fall off a horse at speed!!!

Yakima Canutt probably died more times than all the other movie cowboys combined.

But, if you want to enter the wayback machine, go here: I had serious hots for Gale Storm.