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Q — I understand you are a Hopalong Cassidy expert, and, I sure hope you can help. A photocopy of a 1955 deed issued by the Sunrise Dairy of Gaston County, State of North Carolina, for &#8220… ...
Grace Bradley Boyd passed away recently on her 97th birthday; she was the widow of the silent-screen star with whom she had a schoolgirl crush. How did this come about? A mutual friend in Hollywood… ...
"Hopalong Cassidy was a huge deal in the 1950s, when I was growing up." Hoppy epitomized the cowboy genre, Cottrill said. Back then, he represented a simplicity that isn't always present anymore.
The 10,000-square-foot museum holds several thousand items of Hopalong memorabilia and includes the 250-seat Bar-20 Theatre that will play Hopalong Cassidy movies.
By the 1950s, Hopalong Cassidy and his horse Topper appeared in comic books, on records and were produced as toys, household objects and numerous other items that today keep collectors hoppin` in ...
The rarest in the Hopalong Cassidy collection is a 1949 Chevrolet panel truck, with the original license plate, that was owned by Boyd. He used the truck for promotional tours around the country.
My “Hopalong Cassidy: King of the Cowboy Merchandisers With Value Guide’ (Schiffer Publishing, 1995, $29.95, 168 pp.) devotes over half a page to U.S. Time’s Hopalong Cassidy wristwatch.
Hopalong Cassidy was introduced in 1907 as a fictional character in a story by Clarence E. Mulford. During the years, Mulford wrote 28 books featuring the cowboy. Hopalong was so ...
She proposed the theme of Hopalong Cassidy for a Cambridge spring festival as a way to distinguish it from other communities' gatherings. So she started doing research into Boyd, who died in 1972.