Fess Parker. Dead at 85.

[Bogey]

Another icon has passed.    How many of us remember Fess Parker as Davey Crockett when we were much younger?   He also played Daniel Boone.

[North Pack]

Yup, - remember Fess, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry etc., etc., - seems all the "good heroes" are gone.

[Gene_SC]

That is to bad. I still have memories of those old shows. And I guess as time passes that is all we will have are memories. For sure most of our heroes are gone now.

[dk1677]

Yes its sad !

[snookman]

God rest his soul.
 Who are the Role Models and Heroes now. Criminals, Liars, Thieves, Adulterers, Pedophiles, Murderers, Gang bangers, Etc. The world has moved on. God help us. snookman

[VINNY]

I remember watching that show as a kid. I also remember having a crush on Daniel Boone's wife.Also, Matt Dillon was sooooo cool. I wanted to live on the Ponderosa with the Cartwrights. Chuck Connor was pretty cool too.About a year ago my wife got me into some old classic movies that I did NOT want to see, but I am glad I did. Errol Flynn is awesome.I like all his movies that I have seen. But my absolute favorite old movie is Northwest Passage. Made me want to re-enlist. That was a man I would have gone to war with. He was a great leader. Movies, [like most things ] just aren't the same.

[Big_Bill]

Yes it is a sad day !

John Wayne was my role model, and a few others, when John died I felt a true sence of loss !

Society has lost another great one! God Please bless them All !!!!!

I can't think of one single male role model left today. Even Sgt. Barry Sadler is gone ! De Oppresso Liber !

No parades to mark their passing, no flags at half staff to honor their lives :0

Just another day, just another loss :0

Bill

[Meann-Machine]

Not just memories. I have the complete set of the Davy CrockettDisney movies and the6 season set of the Daniel Boone T.V. series. I watched one of the ol' Daniel Boone shows in memoriam last night.Better T.V. than most of the shows on now.

[TCups]

Daveeeeeeeeee  Dayveee Crocket, king of the wild frontier?
Daniel Boone was a man, was a big big man!  He fought for America to keep all Americans free.
Bet you $500 BO hasn't got a clue who Fess Parker was.

[longislandhunter]

I used to love watching Fess Parker in his Daniel Boone and Davy Crocket roles.  I was really sad to hear he passed...

Jeff

[RedFeather]

What? No Zorro with Sergeant Garcia (who actually had an incredibly good singing voice.) Man, we lived and breathed that stuff. A couple of years ago we were sitting around talking about those Christmas "gotta have" toys that always seem to be out of stock and my Mom (rest her soul) said the one she remembered was that "damn coonskin cap" from Davey Crockett. She had to look all over to find one for me. And no internet shopping in the 50's. (I've still got her "charge cards" - made of out stamped sheet metal like dog tags.)

Northwest Passage is a movie that was way ahead of its time. It's still fresh today. The book was wonderful, as well.

[Big_Bill]

I never received the Coon Skin Cap Red,

But I did cherish my Danial BooneKentucky Cap Rifle, I had that for many years, until it disappeared one day :0

Bill

[North Pack]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-fess-disney20-2010mar20,0,5246461.story

[RedFeather]

Had the cap but not the rifle, LOL. I do remember waking up on my birthday and finding a Daisy canteen and a honking big hog leg of a cap pistol. I want to say it looked like a real six shooter, with ejector and brass shells in which you put a cap, then a dull gray pot metal "bullet" with a hole through it, kind of like a wadcutter. This must have been it - Nichols Stallion .45 -

http://www.nicholscapguns.com/45mkii.htm

Believe me, it's had me hooked ever since.  

[TCups]

Red:

That pistol was the much coveted Mattel Faner '50 Shootin' shell cap pistol, and it was the holy grail of cap pistols for young boys in the '50s.  With a sheet of" Greenie Stick-um Caps", you could indeed stick one on the back of a cartridge and discharge a spring-loaded gray plastic bullet -  at plastic army men, stand up paper targets, the dog, the cat, your siblings . . .  what fun.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qXLxHi9_8

It turns out you can also put the Greenie Stick-um Caps on the bottom of your sister's tap dance shoes.  My brother and I did so to my baby sister's tap shoes, then snuck them back into her dance bag.  She came home from her dance lesson in tears.  Seems her dance teacher couldn't suppress the belly laugh resulting from the "clack-clack- POW" that started off her tap dance lesson.  Yes, we were cruel indeed.