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Davey Crockett dies
RIP Fess Parker
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R.I.P. Fess.I saw the movie when it came out and had the t-shirt and coon skin[fake]hat.My 6th.grade picture had me in my t-shirt.
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RIP Fess Parker
Adios Dan'l Boone!
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Me too, John. Man, how I remember that ballad.
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We all must be gettin' close to 50. Our age group had heros.
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What a Throwback. He and his wife were married for 50 years, he took the money he earned, invested it wisely.....
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When I was a kid, I really enjoyed his frontier movies and the Daniel Boone TV series. R.I.P. Fess Parker.
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So Long
I, and several million other little boys, wanted to be just like Davey Crockett. And when we said Davey Crockett, we meant Fess Parker.
He represented a lot of good things to a bunch of little kids, and I'm glad he had a successful and long life.
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R.I.P., Fess. You were special in your roles as Davy and Dan'l.
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We all must be gettin' close to 50. Our age group had heros.
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I'm not that close to 50, and I had heroes. Then again, I didn't have to turn to TV for that, either.
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A little bit of my heart died when I heard this. Man, Davy Crockett was my hero, first, last and always.
May he rest in peace, and he and Buddy Ebsen can be partners again.
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R.I.P. Mr. Parker.
I thought he was a pretty good actor and liked him in the roles he played.
He will probably always be remembered for his Davy Crockett role, but he had some good movies too.
Old Yeller, The Dirty Dozen, None But The Brave. Just a few that come to mind.
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I recall-Through A Glass Darkly-of having a kid's version of...Old Betsy!
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May he rest in peace.
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I can't say good-bye to Fess Parker because he will always be part of me. He was a true gentleman, and he also made award winning wine. I had planned to take my girlfriend to visit his winery, and I was hoping to meet him and tell him how important he was to me. We will drink to his memory with a bottle of his wine.
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WOW.
I had no idea Fess was still alive. How old was he?
Funny story-
I lived across the street from my grammar school. The house had the old, large "picture window" in the living room. The school was an old building that was a wood frame structure with brick veneer- just like a house was built. (NO- it wasn't ONE room ). It was actually a very large building, built in L shape with two long halls.
The night the last episode of Davey Crocket was on TV- the Alamo finale, smoke was seen coming from the school about the time the program started!!
Soon, the biggest fire many people had ever seen was shooting into the sky.
Talk about "torn between two lovers".....
I ran my butt off between that picture window and the TV, which was in the den on the back of the house!!
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RIP Fess....
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I grew up in Santa Barbara and ran into him a couple of times, once at a Los Tacos window (which actually served the best hamburgers ever: Yum!) and again at a freeway on-ramp where he made a less than observant entry in a car much bigger than mine. Well, actually I almost ran into him that time, or maybe he almost ran into me. No harm though.
After a successful acting career he had a successful business and property development career. He was pretty well respected in Santa Barbara County, though his plans for a kind of resort in the valley behind the coastal range got a lot of hostility from the locals who liked their area rural. I don't think that one ever got built.
He was a pleasant but reserved guy the one time I talked with him. My parents once met him at a party at some friends' house and had the same impression.
Lee, I think he was 85.
I never had the coonskin hat, but a lot of my friends did. When I was in Fourth Grade the teacher had to set aside 10 minutes every Thursday morning so the class could discuss the Disneyland broadcast from the night before. Davey Crockett episodes were always the subject of great enthusiasm.
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I watched the show regularly as a kid. Had the hat too.
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First, Mr. Phelps. Now Davy Crockett. I don't know how much more I can stand. RIP
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RIP.
Blue skys and tailwinds.
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RIP Davey Crockett
I will be 60 in Sept. this year. When I was about 4 or 5 years old he was my hero. I had a coo skin cap and a billfold that was hard stiff plastic with Davey's picture on it. the hat part was all fuzzy, "just like" coon hair My sister had a record player and we had the recording of his theme song. I can still hear it today. I do still have the billfold stored at my mothers house, she is 89 and still lives on her own. Hate it when icons of my youth pass.
peace, gordon
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When I was a teenager, I saw the Great Locomotive Chase starring him for the first time...
I fell in love with his acting ability ever since- especially since it was filmed right across the mountain from us in Clayton, Tallulah Fall and Mountain City.
It also got me interested in electric trains, and more recently real ones.
He was a real American actor, and he will be missed.
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Good old Davy Crockett..I remember for a dime you could buy an iron on transfer of Davy and have your mom iron it on a white tee shirt.
One morning all of us guys were admiring our Davy Crockett tee shirts, when Jay the spoiled kid down the block showed up dress head to foot with a coonskin cap, a fringed shirt and pants with a cap gun that looked like "old Betsy"
We all stood their in shock and disbelief for a nano second, then we all chased him down the street!
It looked like a scene from Lord of the Flies...good old Davy Crockett
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