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REALLY SO WHAT
What A Time

IMAGINATION and FANTASIES

double holsters with ivory handled six guns, and an all white
stallion that could out run anything.

Red Ryder movies were so popular that the Disney BB gun
was named for him. Red Ryder played with a side-kick. A
little kid, an Indian. Side-kicks became a popular way for
singing cowboys to carry a little humor into their movies.
Generally, the side-kicks were a bore. Little Beaver was no
exception.
Often they would use the same scenes as the Class D movies.
It was possible to tell where every fence, gate, pathway and
chair was on the porch of the same old ranch house. They
never even moved them around. Serials brought a new
dimension to the silver screen. Not only the dangling endings,
the thrilling action and recovery, but a slightly different view of
our WASP world. The Cisco Kid was one of those serials that
lasted for years with several ‘Latin American’ stars, Caesar
Romero in the early ‘40’s and Gilbert Roland later.

There were many other serials beside westerns. Superheroes
were the rage. Superman. Kryptonite could scare anyone, me
included. When would I lose my imagined powers? Or
Captain Marvel who would change into a superhero after
exclaiming his reverence for god by repeating the magic word
‘SHAZAM’ . My favorite non-cowboy was ‘The Ghost That
Walked’ The Phantom. He dressed in all purple and had his
own, ‘love-in’ island, called Paradise Island, where all the
animals got along with each other. When not in costume he

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