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September 12, 2019

Volume 49 - No. 37

By R. L. “Pete” Peterson

Saturday morning. Anytown, USA. September 1951. Boys in clean shirts, freshly pressed trousers and black leather tie shoes that Momma shined last night, hair parted and slicked down with Wild Root Cream Oil, clutching the ten-cent admission fee, a quarter wrapped in a handkerchief and nestled in their front pocket are first in line. They’ll get the premiere seats in the first three rows of the theatre. Boys, Boys, Boys

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Next are regular schoolboys, redheaded boys, blonde-haired boys, boys with freckles, boys with eyes filled with wonder, boys who giggle and boys serious as sin with younger brothers hanging on to older brother’s hand. They clutch the five bread wrappers they need for free admission to today’s event. As the theatre’s opening time creeps closer and closer, the excitement increases by decibels and many a bad guy meets his fate from a quick drawn forefinger and six shots from the imaginary pistol. That’s how their hero does it on the

silver screen.

At the far end of the line are the hard scrapple kids. Newspaper boys. Grocery store delivery boys. Window washers. Bus boys. That freckled-faced kid in the worn blue jeans and yellow tee shirt stained with newspaper ink? That’s me, a death grip on my five precious Sally Anne bread wrappers that allow me to enjoy the festivities free. Bread wrappers I had to go door-to-door to accumulate since 22 cents is way too much to pay for a loaf of bread. True, admission is

only a dime, the price of a Roy Rogers comic book, and you can read and re-read that sucker for weeks. Priorities, priorities.

Fan Letters for the “King of the Cowboys”

Why all the excitement, you ask? Simple. Today, the “King of the Cowboys,” Roy Rogers appears in his latest movie. Yes sir. Right here in Fulton, Missouri, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Bethesda, Maryland, Macon, Georgia and all points in between, an unbelievable treat will

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