How could I have let pass uncommented-upon the passing of Fess Parker on Thursday. The man played both Daniel Boone AND Davy Crocket. Beat that. And those theme songs!
I don't care if I am showing my age, but my younger brother and I had matching coonskin hats, fringe jackets and plastic replicas of "Old Betsy". Fess Parker was a Navy veteran of WWII before becoming an actor. Another of my boyhood icons has left us. Along with William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger), Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, they left a legacy of when the good guys really were the "Good Guys".
Jackets with fringe were very popular in the late '60s. Recalling Fess Parker puts a lot of the fashions of the flower children in a new light. We were, after all, the boomer kids with coonskin caps and plastic Betsy toy rifles.
In my day the only thing available to us was a tin badge of the Durango Kid we could pin to our shirts, and that came in a box of corn flakes or rice crispies and which we only got when said boxes were empty. :-)
The "colts" and rifles we fashioned out of the cuttings when the trees were pruned.
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I don't care if I am showing my age, but my younger brother and I had matching coonskin hats, fringe jackets and plastic replicas of "Old Betsy". Fess Parker was a Navy veteran of WWII before becoming an actor. Another of my boyhood icons has left us. Along with William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger), Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, they left a legacy of when the good guys really were the "Good Guys".
Always wanted a fringe jacket. Never got one, though. Had the coon-skin cap.
What he said.
Jackets with fringe were very popular in the late '60s. Recalling Fess Parker puts a lot of the fashions of the flower children in a new light. We were, after all, the boomer kids with coonskin caps and plastic Betsy toy rifles.
Tom,
In my day the only thing available to us was a tin badge of the Durango Kid we could pin to our shirts, and that came in a box of corn flakes or rice crispies and which we only got when said boxes were empty. :-)
The "colts" and rifles we fashioned out of the cuttings when the trees were pruned.