I was born in 1942 so I remember when TV first came out. My dad's boss had one, must have had an 8" screen. lol. We watched football on it, one team of little fuzzy blobs against the other.
Howdy Doody was not my thing, but I enjoyed the after school weekday programs showing old westerns, Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy and of course Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. A kid I knew was the "sidekick" on the show and later on while in our teens we used to tease him a little about that. We were a little jealous, of course.
I had a gunbelt with two holsters hanging on it holding 44 Colt revolver style cap pistols. I think it was a Lone Ranger item. I also had a pump action Daisy BB gun which I dearly loved. My brother and I played cowboys and Indians for hours, often switching roles.
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