I was eight years old. In those days I almost never missed a Saturday afternoon western movie. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans with their music and adventures were my favorites.
So I wrote to Roy at the movie studio and asked him for his autograph. He sent it right away. I had been given an autograph book the Christmas before. So I cut the autograph out and pasted it on a page in the book. Others of my idols, (several school teachers, for example) also signed my book. I still have it somewhere.
I happened to be in Vacaville, CA at the Roy Rogers museum when Roy passed away. I picked a bunch of wildflowers and left them at the museum with a note about how much I cared for him and Dale.
Dale personally answered my note with a thank-you which I now have as well. It is on the back of a photo from her early days.
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