Author Topic: MAKES YA GO....HUMMMMMMMM? ARE THESE TWO...SOOOOUL-BROTHA'S? (Read 4332 times)

Shultzie · « **on:** March 08, 2007, 12:59:34 PM »

After posting the Gruntster for the day.....I couldn't help but wonder......could our Leo Mehl and Jack Shane...be connected in some way?

Check the color of both of these beauifully designed and built extremely light weight stunters?
Both are painted bright orange...and finally....THE CAAAAAAW-BOY HATS!!!

HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM? ARE THESE SOUL-BROTHA'S OR WHAT?

Shultzie · « **Reply #1 on:** March 08, 2007, 01:12:51 PM »

Quote from: Ty Marcucci on March 08, 2007, 01:06:59 PM

Nah. 0ne wears glasses. One is a bad guy and the other is a good guy. You can tell by the white kaboy hat. Learn that in a Roy Rogers flick one saturday back in 1949.

Yes...That would make Capt. Leo----KING OF THE KAAAABOY'S...and Shane...Hummm? Check the name of his airplane "DEVIL WOMAN! YEH! Jack must be baaaaaaaaaaad to the bone!
but then again...I found another baaaaaaazzzzakward flyer that went to the school of Leo Mehl. I wonder if he too might have been related in some weird way? Hummm, makes ya go hummm?
Check out Gene Schaffer's model...he too has the leadout on the wrong wing!

proparc · « **Reply #2 on:** March 08, 2007, 05:10:40 PM »

These guys look like some pretty mean stunt desparados if you ask me. Don't know about you, but, I would check to see if there is a bounty on these two hombres!!

Shultzie · « **Reply #3 on:** March 08, 2007, 06:35:14 PM »

Quote from: proparc on March 08, 2007, 05:10:40 PM

These guys look like some pretty mean stunt desparados if you ask me. Don't know about you, but, I would check to see if there is a bounty on these two hombres!!

Let me share this: When I was a little bittee' first grader....I LOVED ROY ROGERS, GABBY HAYES..(who looked just like my Grandfather) and I was in Love with DALE EVANS and couldn't pass up all those grade D- Sat. afternoon matinee's. Yep! Good guys always wear the white hats...

Hummm?
Didn't the LONE RANGER WEAR A BLACK HAT? Hummmm?

Greg L Bahrman · « **Reply #4 on:** March 08, 2007, 06:48:09 PM »

Didn't the LONE RANGER WEAR A BLACK HAT? Hummmm?

Yeah, but it was OK cause he rode a white horse ! ! !
and didn't he have a silver band around his hat.

Shultzie · « **Reply #5 on:** March 08, 2007, 08:23:43 PM »

Even as a child...GENE ARTERY' MADE US KIDS..WANNA PUKE! His poor horse Champion must have ended up with a sway back from that FAT-BEER BELLY THAT BOUNCED WHEN HE RODE..we were always thinkin' that that big silver belt buckle of his would penetrate his big fat jelly belly..while old Champion, the poor horse would rare up and wave his poor achin' front hooves. PLUS THAT NASAL SNOTTY SOUNDING VOICE OF HIS..WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO TRY AND YODDLE-DOODLE DANDY...WORST OF ALL! WHAT REALL SICKENED US KIDS..WAS THAT BLUBBERY DOUBLE CHIN OF HIS...WOULD VIBRATE LIKE AN OLD RUBY RED PLUNKED CHICKEN'S NECK.
THERE!!! I FEEL BETTER ALREADY!

Keith Spriggs · « **Reply #6 on:** March 08, 2007, 08:33:04 PM »

Quote from: Shultzie on March 08, 2007, 08:23:43 PM

Even as a child...GENE ARTERY' MADE US KIDS..WANNA PUKE!

Shultzie, You are the master of the written word. Your description put in to words what has been in the back of my mind for 60 years.

To give him credit he did manage to parlay his earnings in to fortune. I remember seeing Lash Larue at a gun show selling autographed pictures to eek out a living. Sadly there were not many takers.

Leo Mehl · « **Reply #7 on:** March 09, 2007, 11:02:51 AM »

My heros were the sidekicks like Gabby Hays and Andy Divine, Leon Errol,Tonto The king of few words kemasaby. They were the real heros. I could'nt stand Roy Rogers because I thought the way he dressed he was a sissy coooowboy. And Hoppy was the guy that never kissed the girls. Like a lot of us those days the Saturday afternoon cerials were the thing. After we got out of the movie we would go play cops and robbers or cowboy and indians. sometimes even robinhood. I spent most of my life trying to get my bow untangled from trees and healing my ankles from jumping out of same trees. Boy I lived my childhood to the fullest, But I did have a good childhood. I know shultzie did too just from the take on his sence of hummer even as demented as it is!

bruce malm · « **Reply #8 on:** March 09, 2007, 01:05:38 PM »

Hey you guys, I loved all those guys too, but have you forgotten about Sky King , The Songbird (I think that was the name on his plane) and Penny his daughter. I think her name was Penny? That was probably my favoriite!!! show whan I were a youngun.

Bruce

Bill Gruby · « **Reply #9 on:** March 09, 2007, 01:40:32 PM »

You got um all right "Bruce" and who could possibly forget "Pat Brady and Nelly-Belle" his Jeep

"Billy G"

OOOOOPS "Penny" was his niece.

Bill Little · « **Reply #10 on:** March 09, 2007, 03:58:16 PM »

How did it go............. Out of the clear blue Western sky.........comes Sky King!

Or sumtin like that...........

it WAS an airplane! twin engined even.......

and nelly belle the jeep.......... wow guys, did all of us walk a dozen miles every Saturday Morning so that we could get there in time to see an D movie matinee for 10 cents?

?? then get back home before it got too dark..........

Bob Disharoon · « **Reply #11 on:** March 09, 2007, 06:06:06 PM »

Can anyone say.."RED RYDER"...now That was one bad you know what..no Brokeback action goin on there. podna!!!

Bob Disharoon · « **Reply #12 on:** March 09, 2007, 06:10:38 PM »

One more time..I even had the RED RYDER BB gun!!!!..

Shultzie · « **Reply #13 on:** March 09, 2007, 06:55:57 PM »

Quote from: bob disharoon on March 09, 2007, 06:10:38 PM

One more time..I even had the RED RYDER BB gun!!!!..

"A RED RYDER BB GUN!" Me too...so did my little buddy, Johnny Sanders (a son of a Baptist preacherman) and we used to get into all kinds of trouble with a capitol T.

We used to take those guns over to the park across the street in Bronson Kansas...play Cowboy and Indians. (No BB's at first)After one matinee...we saw a Red Ryder movie and it was almost dark by the time we got home.... we decided to LOAD BOTH OUR GUNS...and hide out behind trees and take pot shots at each other when we would peek out behind the Elm tree trunks.
Our safety rule was...that we were not to aim at our heads...but body shots were OK from a distance.
Johnny was the Indian...he jumped out from behind the tree...I took my shot..hit him in groin area...GADS, HE WAS MADDERN' HELL IN A HAND BASKET...JOHNNY WAS CRYING BUT HE STILL TOOK THE TIME AND AIMED AT MY HEAD...PULLED THE TRIGGER...AND "KAAAPOW!"
Johnny hit me right between the eyes...just about an inch above the bridge of my nose!
I felt my head...I could feel the BB INSIDE THE SKIN OF MY FORE HEAD...and blood started running down my nose...I started screaaaaammmmin' "MOMMY, MOMMY, MOMMY, I AM DYIN'!!! turned and ran for home...with Johnny running right behind me with his RED RYDER in his left hand....screeeeammmmin' for me to not tell my mother...because his DADDY would beat him with his belt...and take his gun away forever!!!!
TALK ABOUT CRISIS!
All ended well....my mother took her tweezers and pulled the BB out of my head...put a piece of guaze and taped me up and we never did tell Johnny Sanders father what had happened. His Dad never spared the rod (belt) and I had seen many bruises on his upper legs and lower back where Rev. Sanders had "corrected" Johnny's behavior.

THAT WAS THE VERY LAST TIME THAT WE EVER PLAYED COWBOY'S AND INDIANS WITH LIVE BB'S!
And by the grace of God and my mother, she never took our guns away. I feel a song comin on:

"LEAVE YOUR GUNS AT HOME DON..DON'T TAKE YER' GUNS TO TOWN, DON! n'all that jazz.

Bob Disharoon · « **Reply #14 on:** March 10, 2007, 05:29:45 PM »

That is good!...my grandmother had a big garden out back..she kept my bb gun cocked..every time a dog would take a dump out there..she would nail the sucker nail it ..one shot...man, that was fun to watch

Kreth · « **Reply #15 on:** March 10, 2007, 05:37:53 PM »

Hey you guys, I loved all those guys too, but have you forgotten about Sky King , The Songbird (I think that was the name on his plane) and Penny his daughter. I think her name was Penny? That was probably my favoriite!!! show whan I were a youngun.

Well for all of you here is where you need to go:

http://www.americanflyers.net/entertainment/skyking.asp

Bill Gruby · « **Reply #16 on:** March 10, 2007, 06:07:42 PM »

Kreth;

I never met ya don't know what you sound like nothin but I do know you know your stuff. I'll see you guys in a day or so, man 64 episodes? How do I move this dang computer into the "Throne Room". This is gonna take a while.

Thanks a gazillion times:

"Billy G"

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #17 on:** March 11, 2007, 08:25:02 AM »

And today, the Politically correct crowd have outlawed toy guns.. Gosh we all had them and we all survived.. amazing.

I liked Gene Autry, but the sideskicks were the best.. Pat Butrum, Pat Brady, Gabby, Andy Devine, and of course ,Tonto.

BUT Sky King was the man.. and his beautiful niece Penny. The Cessna T50 bamboo bomber, and the early Cessna 310.. In later years I got to fly both airplanes.. wow.. I re-lived Sky King for real.

I guess I am going have to buy a new cowboy hat!

Kreth, thanks for that link. I guess I am have to watch evry one of the 64.

BTW: Go to skyking.com for the show history, details on the actors and planes, and there is a box set available of all 72 episodes (Yes 72 )

Bill Little · « **Reply #18 on:** March 11, 2007, 08:41:33 AM »

Quote from: Kreth on March 10, 2007, 05:37:53 PM

Hey you guys, I loved all those guys too, but have you forgotten about Sky King , The Songbird (I think that was the name on his plane) and Penny his daughter. I think her name was Penny? That was probably my favoriite!!! show whan I were a youngun.

Well for all of you here is where you need to go:

http://www.americanflyers.net/entertainment/skyking.asp

Hi Kreth,

Did you see my post above?

Thanks for that link, it's awesome!
Bill <><

roger gebhart · « **Reply #19 on:** March 11, 2007, 09:00:37 AM »

And the dogs name was?

Had a single episode for the dog. And I won't tell.

Bill Little · « **Reply #20 on:** March 11, 2007, 09:05:02 AM »

Quote from: roger gebhart on March 11, 2007, 09:00:37 AM

And the dogs name was? Had a single episode for the dog. And I won't tell.

*King*

Leo Mehl · « **Reply #21 on:** March 11, 2007, 10:48:04 AM »

Hey,being from montana there was the mountie an for some reason I can't think of his name and he had a huskie dog too. Anyone remember?

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #22 on:** March 11, 2007, 11:03:53 AM »

Ah yes... "Sargent Preston of the Yukon, and his dog "King" .

"King" was a Black and White Siberian Husky

That is probably why I have had Siberian Huskies most of my life. Our current one is named "Scarlett". She is copper colored with blue eyes. (Copper is the AKC official color, it looks more choclate brown when the new coat comes in and gets lighter before she sheds the winter coat.)

Our last Husky was silver color with brown eyes, a beautiful show dog.

Bill Little · « **Reply #23 on:** March 11, 2007, 11:18:17 AM »

Quote from: Tom Niebuhr on March 11, 2007, 11:03:53 AM

Ah yes... "Sargent Preston of the Yukon, and his dog "King" .

"King" was a Black and White Siberian Husky

That is probably why I have had Siberian Huskies most of my life. Our current one is named "Scarlett". She is copper colored with blue eyes. (Copper is the AKC official color, it looks more choclate brown when the new coat comes in and gets lighter before she sheds the winter coat.)

Our last Husky was silver color with brown eyes, a beautiful show dog.

Thanks, Tom.

I knew there was a pup named *King* out there somewhere!

Bill <><

Leo Mehl · « **Reply #24 on:** March 11, 2007, 01:28:44 PM »

I remember the Mounties always got thier man and of course King was always the hero. Boy did I eat that stuff up and then there was Terry and the Pirates during world war two. My favorite program after gettin home from school. It was almost as good a chasing girls.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #25 on:** March 12, 2007, 09:49:38 PM »

I miss the days of the radio shows in which your imagination took over as the show progressed. Use to rush home from school to listen to some young kid at the B-Bar-B Ranch. His name escapes me. DOC Holliday

Keith Spriggs · « **Reply #26 on:** March 12, 2007, 11:37:58 PM »

Quote from: john e. holliday on March 12, 2007, 09:49:38 PM

I miss the days of the radio shows in which your imagination took over as the show progressed. DOC Holliday

I read somewhere where they played a recording of an old radio show for a group of grade school children. After it was over they were discussing it. One little boy said "I liked it better than television". When was ask why, he replied: "I liked the pictures better".

And if may add something, I liked them better also.

Leo Mehl · « **Reply #27 on:** March 15, 2007, 11:53:58 PM »

Oh yes, They could paint a picture in your mind that lasted forever. My son loved Lum and Abner. then there was Allens Alley, Great Gildersleeve. It made us use our imajination. My uncle loved Lights Out and Intersanctum and of course the supperhero THE LONE RANGER. Jack Benny and Rochester. Good stuff.

Bob Disharoon · « **Reply #28 on:** March 16, 2007, 06:07:01 AM »

remember Spin and Marty..the two cowboy kids?

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #29 on:** March 22, 2007, 01:34:12 AM »

I now have 59 more episodes of Sky King to watch.. What great memories.. it was just yesterday, wasn't it?

Bill Gruby · « **Reply #30 on:** March 22, 2007, 04:38:06 AM »

AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

Tom is that 59 more on top of the ones we already have? If so please let the rest of us "Kids" know how you pulled that one off? This was my favorite TV show.

"Billy G"

don Burke · « **Reply #31 on:** March 22, 2007, 08:40:29 AM »

Quote from: john e. holliday on March 12, 2007, 09:49:38 PM

I miss the days of the radio shows in which your imagination took over as the show progressed. Use to rush home from school to listen to some young kid at the B-Bar-B Ranch. His name escapes me. DOC Holliday

Bobby Benson and the....

Randy Powell · « **Reply #32 on:** March 22, 2007, 10:48:59 AM »

I always thought John Brodak and Lute Olson were brothers.

Tom Hagler · « **Reply #33 on:** March 23, 2007, 09:45:49 PM »

XM satellite radio has a channel (164) totally devoted to old radio shows. I just heard an episode of "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon", as well as The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke (the best acted, best written western radio drama, and had the best sound effects), Lux Radio Theater, Dragnet, The Green Hornet, Fibber McGee and Molly, Pat Novak for Hire, Yours Truly; Johnny Dollar, The Whistler, The Shadow, et cetera. I sometimes laugh out loud at how corny these old shows can be, but its good clean fun. A very scarce commodity on the airwaves these days.
Hag

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #34 on:** March 24, 2007, 10:43:43 AM »

Quote from: Bill Gruby on March 22, 2007, 04:38:06 AM

AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

Tom is that 59 more on top of the ones we already have? If so please let the rest of us "Kids" know how you pulled that one off? This was my favorite TV show.

"Billy G"

Bill,
I have watched 5 of the 64... 59 to go!