Thursday, September 06, 2018

WADE #7


Posted by Chic Silber at 9/06/2018 12:12:00 AM

3 comments:

Paul Gutheil said...

hoppy TOO!

06 September, 2018 04:51
Chic Silber said...


Looks to be a 49 or 50

GMC or Chevy Suburban

06 September, 2018 12:42
Eric said...

The first weekly television program to capture my attention offered Hopalong Cassidy westerns from the 1930s and 1940s, edited down to 54 minutes each so that film and commercials would fit into a one-hour time slot. William Boyd, the actor who played Hopalong Cassidy, had purchased the rights to all of his old films when he took over as producer of the series. Later, after the theaters stopped booking the Cassidy films, he made them available to television, When the Hoppy westerns debuted on the NBC network, they were the first Hollywood-produced feature films of any real quality being shown on the small screen. Early Sunday evening quickly became “Hoppy night,” and William Boyd became one of television’s first major stars, appearing on the covers of magazines such as Life, Look and TV Guide. Like many young viewers, I was a devoted Hoppy fan, secretly wishing that I could ride the range with him as one of his sidekicks. The following Christmas, I received what was for me at the time, the ultimate gift: an official Hopalong Cassidy twin cap gun set with black holsters made out of real leather.

06 September, 2018 12:43

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