My wife calls me from the bar in the Burbank Airport Marriott where she is waiting for her

[ohiosmith]

flight and says "all these people just walked in dressed like Hoss Cartwright". I hear someone in the background say "there's a Bonanza convention here". She says "never mind, see you soon". :rofl:

[txwhitedove]

1. What, no Little Joe's???

:rofl:

PICTURES PLEASE

[ohiosmith]

10. My took a few with cell but they aren't that good. I found some on the web from past conventions.

[hibbing]

2. Seriously?

Hey,
That is too funny, thanks for the much needed Friday night laugh, crazy stuff.

Peace

[dembotoz]

3. is rick parry in town?

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. While living in Germany, I used to watch "Bonanza" on German TV.

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The actor they used to dub Hoss' voice into German had
this high scritchy-scratchy voice that was absolutely
inappropriate... considering the size of the character.
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It was HILARIOUS!!!
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For a long LONG time, "Bonanza" was the most popular
TV show in the world... to be eventually toppled from
that perch, I'm very sorry to say, by "Baywatch".
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[trof]

5. For some reason, Germans are BIG on Cowboys 'n Indians.

:shrug:

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. Not too far from Merrell Barracks (an old SS Kaserne) where I was stationed in Nurnberg...

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was a municipal park built around the Deutzendeich Lake -- with a
municipal stadium where Hitler and the National Socialist party held
many famously filmed rallies from 1933-1938.
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While walking in a remote section of the park one day, I happened to
find "The German-American Cowboy & Indian Club" -- a broken-down
old "corral" where there were about half-a-dozen men standing around
dressed like cowboys... doing "cowboy things". I was ALMOST 100%
certain that they were all Germans.
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It was really weird.
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It was the same day that an elderly German woman told the little dog
she was walking that I was shit (scheisse). It was not a good day for
me -- as I was more than a little homesick.
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I realized much later that she may have lost children in WWII due to
the Americans -- my buddy had to sneak around with his German girlfriend
as her grandmother (who she lived with) would have disowned her for
having such a relationship -- Grandma had lost three very young civilian
sons to American bombings during that war.
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It put her behavior into a perspective for me that was much easier to
deal with and understand.
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[marzipanni]

7. That scene at the "corral" sounds kinda bizarre, like something Werner Herzog

would put in a film.
I googled "German Cowboy and Indian Clubs" and found a photo of the corral, I think- but no one is there at that moment.
http://jonathandwoodyard.tumblr.com/post/3120784393/historical-cowboy-indian-club-nuremberg

I enjoy the little narrative pictures from your time in Germany.

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. Very COOL.

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The entrance says 1971 -- I wonder if that's when the club was formed (I would've
seen it around '73 or '74) and if THOSE structures came along later. The corral I
remember seeing was pretty sad.
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EXCELLENT find!!! Thanks.
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[Brother Buzz]

11. If Werner Herzog directed Bonaza, he would put Hoss on top of a camel

And little Joe, who would really be little, would be laughing his head off at the ensuing antics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_uFDSQ_Ius

[blueamy66]

8. My guy would be thrilled...

one of his favorites.....