RIP Fess Parker

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Necrodamus

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Fess Parker died yesterday at the age of 85.
He was best known for his roles of Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone.
He is the reason I always wanted to spend more time outdoors and inspired me as a child.

Good bye old friend!
 
Remember Davy Crockett's favorite saying, "Be sure you are right, then go ahead."

God Bless Fess Parker.
 
May he RIP. His shows and movies were the best! Between him an Johnny Weissmuller I wanted to carry a FB on my belt everywhere I went. That was back in the day when their were five channels on TV.....
 
I loved watching Daniel Boone, RIP

MW740 said:
May he RIP. His shows and movies were the best! Between him an Johnny Weissmuller I wanted to carry a FB on my belt everywhere I went. That was back in the day when their were five channels on TV.....
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Five channels sounds about right for where we lived, they would send us kids up on the roof to turn the antenae when the motor burnt up.
 
My Dad took me to see the Alamo at the theater when I was a kid. The Dainiel Boone TV series was a great show to watch. Man I will miss that old guy but there is retro TV and syndication:) I still watch Daniel Boone when I have a little time:)
 
FIVE Channels!?!?!

We only had THREE!!

Yeah, I used to love Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone -- I caught myself singing the Daniel Boone theme song the other day, and it must be 20 years since I last saw the show.

When I was a kid, some friends of the family moved and gave me a bunch of books -- all nonfiction. Most were of historical figures like George Washington, and many about Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Francis Marion, etc. I read those diligently, and with them, Fess Parker's shows, along with Swamp Fox and Grizzly Adams made me want to spend my time in the woods.

Then when dad lost his job, and couldn't get another that paid anywhere near that much, my parents came to me all worried, telling me that we'd have to shut the electricity off, and things were going to be hard. I remember jumping up and down and yelling "Oh boy! We get to live like Daniel Boone!" Living a few hundred yards from a reservoir (with our own dock), deep in the woods, with a nice, fast running brook by the house, it was a woodsman's paradise.

Fess Parker's shows were a big influence on me taking it as an adventure, rather thana burden.

RIP
 
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