Tygarts Valley High School Class of 1964: DAY 116

Thursday, April 17, 2014

DAY 116 - COUNTING DOWN TO THE 50TH

GOOD MORNING, CLASS OF '64

American Storytellers - Andy Thomas

April 17, 1964 (Friday)

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/04/16/3058874/fifty-years-ago-today-april-17.html?sp=/99/178/
http://www.historyorb.com/date/1964/april/17
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1964#April_17.2C_1964_.28Friday.29

Ford Mustang formally
introduced ($2,368 base)

Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman
to fly solo around the world

Byron De La Beckwith is free
after his second trial for
the murder of Medgar Evers
ends with another hung jury.

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Our Grand Entrance - Andy Thomas

Cowboy Quotes from Movies

http://www.americancowboy.com/blogs/lfeldman/cowboy-quotes-movies

A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by.
John Wayne

Talk low, talk slow, and don’t talk too much.
John Wayne

Well, I don't favor talkin' to vermin,
but I'll talk to you just this once.
Chisum

Well, son, since you haven't learned
to respect your elders, it's time
you learned to respect your betters.
Big Jake

Well, there are some things a man
just can't run away from.
Stagecoach

Sidekick Pancho & The Cisco Kid

The Cisco Kid and Pancho looked and acted different from other TV cowboys, and their show was different, too. The Cisco Kid was an easy going kind of cowboy show, not serious all the time. It's doubtful anybody ever had nightmares from watching it. The two buddies rode in on their horses at a fast clip, but once their feet touched the ground, the pace of the show slowed down. The bad guys didn't appear to be monsters, they didn't scare you to death, and Cisco didn't fire his gun too much. Pancho's character lightened things up because, well, he was just funny.

We knew Cisco and Pancho were different, even if we didn't understand at the time that they were Spanish. (Family probably educated us.) Cisco spoke English with an accent, not like our accents, and Pancho used English like "Let's went, Ceesco" when it was time to go. They didn't dress like the other TV cowboys, either.

In every episode (156 of them) of The Cisco Kid, Cisco was dressed in a black cowboy suit with much white embroidery. (On the older TV sets, it wasn't recognized as embroidery. It just looked white). His sidekick, Pancho, was dressed more commonly in a peasant type shirt, but his pants had a fancy cowboy look. They both wore guns around their hips and, of course, on their heads was the cowboy hat. Cisco's hat appeared to have braid of some type around the outer edge. Pancho's hat had a very wide brim. Cisco was handsome and very neatly dressed. Pancho was not so handsome and looked a bit untidy.

At the end of each program there was a little joke that passed between Cisco and Pancho. Cisco would say with a big grin, "Ahh, Pancho", and Pancho would say with a big grin "Ahh, Ceesco", without actually laughing out loud at the joke. Then they would ride off on their horses into the western landscape looking for more wrongs to right.

Ahh, Pancho, Ahh Cisco, we enjoyed every minute of your show!

Here's Adventure!
Here's Romance!
Here's O'Henry's Famous
Robin Hood of the Old West,
The Cisco Kid!

Intro to The Cisco Kid

The Cisco Kid
Cisco Kid - Duncan Renaldo
Pancho - Leo Carrillo
Viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures.
The first television series to be filmed in color.
Few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
Central character was created by American
short story author O. Henry in "The Caballero's Way"
The Cisco Kid is depicted as a
heroic Mexican caballero,
In the original story,
the Kid is non-Hispanic
and a vicious outlaw.
Nominated in 1953 for an Emmy Award
for children's programming.
By 1955 it was the most popular
filmed television series
among American children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cisco_Kid_%28TV_series%29