Roy Rogers Memorabilia .....TV we watched as kids. I'll bet you all know the song too

The Roy Rogers Museum has closed its doors forever.
 
Here is a partial listing of some of the items that were sold at auction...
 
Roy's 1964 Bonneville sold for $254,500, it was estimated to sell between 100 and 150 thousand dollars.
 

His script book from the January 14,1953 episode of This Is Your Life sold for $10,000 (est. $800-$1,000)

A collection of signed baseballs (Pete Rose, Duke Snyder and other greats) sold for $3,750

A collection of signed bats (Yogi Berra, Enos Slaughter, Bob Feller, and others) sold for $2,750.

Trigger's saddle and bridle sold for $386,500 (est. 100-150 K)

One of many of Roy 's shirts sold for $16,250 and one of his many cowboy hats sold for $17,500.

 

One set of boot spurs sold for $10,625. (He never used a set of spurs on Trigger.)

A life size shooting gallery sold for $27,500.

Various chandeliers sold from $6,875 to $20,000. Very unique and artistic in their western style.

A signed photograph by Don Larsen taken during his perfect game in the world series against the Dodgers on Oct. 8, 1953, along with a signed baseball to Roy from Don, sold for $2,500

Two fabulous limited edition BB guns in their original boxes with numerous photos of Roy, Dale, Gabby, and Pat sold for $3,750.
 
A collection of memorabilia from his shows entertaining the troops in Vietnam sold for $938.  I never knew he was there.  His flight jacket sold for $7,500.

 

His set of dinner ware plates and silverware sold for $11,875.  The Bible they used at the dinner table every night sold for $8,750.

One of several of his guitars sold for $27,500.

Nellybelle sold for $116,500.

 

A fabulous painting of Roy, Dale, Pat, Buttermilk, Trigger, and Bullet sold for $10,625.

One of several sets of movie posters sold for $18,750.

A black and white photograph of Gene Autry with a touching inscription from Gene to Roy sold for $17,500.

A Republic Productions Poster bearing many autographs of the people that played in Roy's movies sold for $11,875.

Dale's horse, Buttermilk (whose history is very interesting) sold below the presale estimate for $25,000. (est. 30-40 K)
 

Bullet sold for $35,000 (est. 10-15 K). He was their real pet.

Dale's parade saddle, estimated to sell between 20-30 K, sold for $104,500.

One of many pairs of Roy's boots sold for $21,250.

Trigger sold for $266,500.

 

Do you remember the 1938 movie The Adventures of Robinhood with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland? Well Olivia rode Trigger in that movie.  Trigger was bred on a farm co-owned by Bing Crosby. Roy bought Trigger on a time payment plan for $2,500.   Roy and Trigger made 188 movies together.  Trigger even out did Bob Hope by winning an Oscar in the movie Son of Paleface in 1953.

It is extremely sad to see this era lost forever.  Despite the fact that Gene and Roy's movies, as well as those of other great characters, can be bought or rented for viewing, today's kids would rather spend their time playing video games.  Today it takes a very special pair of parents to raise their kids with the right values and morals.  These were the great heroes of our childhood, and they did teach us right from wrong, and how to have and show respect for each other and the animals that share this earth.

You and I were born at the right time. We were able to grow up with these great people even if we never met them.  In their own way they taught us patriotism and honor, we learned that lying and cheating were bad, and sex wasn't as important as love.  We learned how to suffer through disappointment and failure and work through it.  Our lives were drug free.

So it's good-bye to Roy and Dale, Gene and Hoppy, The Lone Ranger and Tonto.  Farewell to Sky King and Superman and Sgt. Friday.  Thanks to Capt. Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers and Capt. Noah and all those people whose lives touched ours, and made them better.
 
 
A time in History, never to be seen again, but what a ride it was…….
 
HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU!
 
THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIENDS!

It was a great ride through childhood.
 
HAPPY TRAILS MY FRIENDS

   this post was sent to us by our Member Keith ,...thanks Keith.  Cheers !!  HF&RV

Tax Everything 'that' will Teach Us..............the answer to all gov't woes--TAX

Yes let's not be fiscally responsible & get the graft & thievery under control,let's just TAX everything (a problem everywhere it seems) but Quebec/Montreal arenotorius for it\

As he prepares to hit resident Montreal motorists on Jan. 1 with an as yet undetermined tax on their vehicle registrations, Mayor Gérald Tremblay wants to make one thing perfectly clear:

"I want to tell you that I am not taking this action to settle the city of Montreal's financial problems," he told a packed news conference Thursday at city hall, referring to reports the tax might be used to cover the $250 million in budget cuts Tremblay announced last month, "We will have other ways to settle those ... problems.

"I am doing this in the interests of motorists and those of public transit users, the additional contribution (made by this tax) will be dedicated to public transit."

And if the provincial government allows it, Tremblay's car tax will not be a charge exclusive to the city of Montreal. Standing alongside the mayor at Thursday's press conference was Westmount mayor Peter Trent, who heads an association representing Montreal's 15 independent suburbs and shares Tremblay's rationale for introducing the tax in the suburbs, as well.

"I'm supporting this ... for the simple reason that we can no longer finance public transit with property taxes alone," he said, noting that Quebec is the only province that doesn't contribute to the operational budgets of public transit authorities, "We are at our limit. Therefore, we think it is logical to have motorists finance public transit."

For the past two years, Montreal has enjoyed special powers of taxation granted by provincial law. Montreal Island suburbs, however, require government permission to levy a vehicle registration tax.

Tremblay said the details of a vehicle registration tax would be made public once the city budget for 2011 is tabled, an announcement expected in December. All Quebec motorists already pay a $30 fee on their registration to support public transit across the province. In Toronto, motorists pay a $60 car licence tax to the city. The tax, adopted in 2007, is collected by the provincial government when a vehicle's plates are renewed.

As he has in the past, Tremblay cited statistics that suggest traffic jams in the Montreal area cost more than $1 billion annually in lost productivity. But when asked why Montrealers are being hit with a tax rather than off-island motorists - who are responsible for much of the daily traffic on Montreal Island and on its bridges - with a toll, Tremblay's answer was simple:

"It would take three years (establish a toll system)," he said, "And I'm not going to wait three years. We're evaluating the tolls, but I need immediate action.

"You're totally right when you talk about (the off-island suburbs contribution to on-island traffic), but we have to start somewhere."

Asked if a made-in-Montreal tax on cars might send more city residents to live in the suburbs, Tremblay said Montrealers might be joined by their neighbours in the West Island and other city suburbs where property taxes were increased.

"We have no choice," he said.

Trent was even more forthright: "If there's been a mass exodus off the island of Montreal ... it's because property taxes have been increasing at a vertiginous rate in the last 10, 15, 20 years...It's not because of taxes on cars.

"(This car tax) makes more sense ... people are leaving because property taxes are half of what they are on the island of Montreal - that's the real problem."

 

 Mayor Tremblay

One Week Until Remembrance Day ( although in todays world we should remember everyday)

The annual poppy campaign had been underway since last Friday, of course it's done in honour of fallen Vets, ........they were victims of war,however we should also remember the people at home ,where many housewives worked for the war effort too.

                                                                                                                              

 

 

 

......Throw a little something in one of the volunteer poppy seller's boxes,& if you care to,wear your poppy to Remember them,  or simply make a small donation ,everything helps...a small price ,considering what price many of the Vets paid,and we now have more & more veterans who have done modern day service in what can only be imagined as some real hell on earth places, (regardless of who sent them there & why)  So if you support the cause ,I'm sure they would thank you, & if you don't ,then that is your right to do so,(the Vets saw to it that each & everyone of us,has that right,.....it's called Freedom)

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Here's the Real Spaghetti Interchange-----Turcot (1966)

            Auteur: Allan Leishman

Commanditaire: Archives fédérales d'Ottawa

Commanditaire: Archives fédérales d'Ottawa

Référence: Archives fédérales d'Ottawa

Responsable: Serge Gaudreau

Numéro d'image: 3054

 

Photo credited to Al Leishman,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

,Residents brace for Turcot Plan------I wonder if there are two stories in the Gazette by design to deflect attention form the residents,because one story talks about the 'spaghetti' Decarie, however Deacarie I recall being fairly straight, & the real 'spaghetti interchange' was & is Turcot,So if the Decarie 'straitening out plan' doesn't meet with opposition,then they go ahead,& in reality achieve the desired results of getting rid of Turcot ???????  Could politicians be that coniving,& lying......you be the judge:

   Here's the other Gazette story from today's online paper.

      

Quebec Transport Minister Sam Hamad can expect a rough ride from the residents of Montreal's Southwest borough if the government's $1-billion overhaul of the Turcot Interchange doesn't take their concerns into account, the borough's mayor said yesterday.

"Even if the Turcot project isn't in the news, people in the neighbourhood are still working -circulating petitions, putting signs in the metro," Vision Montreal city councillor and borough mayor Benoit Dorais told reporters.

"We've seen how, in the past, the Quebec government has gone ahead with projects, the public has mobilized and the government has backed off," he said.

"Never take the people of Montreal or the people of the Southwest for granted, for people who will keep quiet. These people are mobilized and have fought for all kinds of causes in the past."

Dorais, accompanied by Vision Montreal leader Louise Harel, made his comments as pessimism over the project's final version -expected to be made public as early as Tuesday - appears to be gaining critical mass.

Harel criticized Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay for "remaining silent" on just what Montreal would do if the project -which was the object of public hearings two years ago -ignores city recommendations that it be designed to encourage the use of public transit and not involve the expropriation of residences.

And both complained that even though the Southwest is where the project will take place, Hamad, who was named transport minister in August, had ignored repeated requests from the borough to meet to discuss the project.

"But things are happening," Dorais said. "Negotiations are going on between the city the and the province, and (preparatory) work is going on at the site.

"What's it for? We don't know." Maxime Sauvageau, a spokesperson for Hamad, would not specify when the Turcot announcement would be made, but said "it was a given" that the minister would meet with the borough before any announcement.

Vision Montreal's call for a meeting with Hamad followed an announcement by Projet Montreal leader and city councillor Richard Bergeron that he would resign from the city executive committee if Tremblay supported a version of the Turcot plan that did not adhere to the city's demands.

On Monday, Tremblay said he was "convinced" the Turcot plan would be modified to the city's satisfaction.

The elevated Turcot Interchange, which opened in 1967, connects Highways 15, 20 and 720 through a series of 20-metre-high ramps and overpasses. About 280,000 vehicles use the interchange daily.

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Spaghetti Decarie 2B straightened out........

            Transport Quebec has unveiled details of its $110-million plan to revamp the Décarie interchange, a project I wrote about in June.

The way it's currently configured, there are too many successive merges between cars heading in different directions on Highways 15 and 40, the province says. Designed in the 1950s, it's used by 280,000 vehicles daily and is the scene of a large number of accidents - 1,637 between 2003 and 2007 alone, Transport Quebec says.

The new interchange, expected to be completed in 2013, is supposed to change that.

In addition, connections to the borough of St. Laurent will be improved and reserved bus lanes will be added.

Here are PDF maps of the current configuration and what it will look like after the work. 

       Here's a computer generated video of the new decarie proposal:

             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaLpwmMte2c

Flying Frenchman Down for the Count-----Edouard Carpentier dead @ 84

Quebec’s Flying Frenchman, wrestler Édouard Carpentier, died during the weekend at his home in Montreal. He was 84. Reports say he suffered a heart attack on Oct. 30.

Carpentier dominated the Canadian and particularly the Montreal wrestling scene after emigrating from France in 1956, and was a four-time International Champion (1957-67) and a popular member of the tag teams of the ’70s.

His name was as well known during that period as that of his arch-nemeses, Canadian wrestlers Killer Kowalski and Mad Dog Vachon.

Carpentier dazzled in the ring with his high-flying and acrobatic style, hence his nickname. All those years of slamming down to the mat took a toll and in the past decade, Carpentier suffered a heart attack and many physical ailments due to the rigours of his early career.

Born Édouard Weiczorkiewicz in Roanne, France, July 17, 1926 he reputedly worked with the French Reistance during the Second World War. Trained in physical fitness, he competed as a gymnast for France in the 1958 and 1952 games in London and Helsinki.

He picked up wrestling skills and was lured to Montreal in 1956 where he adopted the stage surname Carpentier after a French boxer.

He once told a reporter that he initially came to Montreal for a three-month contract and stayed.

          With his compact size and broad physique – 5 foot 10 inches and 220 pounds – plus his penchant of adding backflips and somersaults to his performance, Carpentier had the crowd eating out of his hand.

Carpentier became a Canadian citizen in the 1970s and also helped train up-and-comers to the business. He supplemented his income with work as a stunt man for several movies.

After retiring from wrestling in the 1980s, Carpentier did some play-by-play commentary for the French networks.

Plans for a funeral or service are not known at this time.

Back in the wrestling days of no make-up or costumes,but nonetheless phoney,old Edouard Carpentier was one of the regulars at the Verdun Auditorium ,with names like Killer Kawalski,Mad Dog Vachon, etc etc .......

Hope you Had a Happy Halloween

                .I hope you all had a happy halloween,.............next stop Remembrance Day