Stopped at a local bar for a beer

[CanonRay]

as Mrs Canon was hostingher ladies group. The 20ish staff was discussing how to make a Roy Rogers cocktail. One of them said "who is Roy Rogers anyway?" I accessed my 74 year old database and informed them.

[MIButterfly]

1. That reminds me of the time about 35-40 years ago when Elizabeth Taylor

came to a mall in metro Detroit to promote her new perfume, White Diamonds. The mall was about 30 miles away from where I lived and I wasn't familiar with that area at that time and I got lost. By the time I got there, she had already come and gone. I was standing by the sign that said "Elizabeth Taylor Here Today" when two teenagers walked by and one turned to the other and said "So who's Elizabeth Taylor?"

And she was still alive then!

[MyOwnPeace]

2. I was once a music teacher in an elementary school.

One lesson I did was to play the 4 ‘sections’ of the William Tell Overture - and the kids were to ‘draw’ something to show how they thought the music made them feel. In my first few years of teaching I ALWAYS got a drawing of horses or ‘the Lone Ranger’ for the last part!
Years later I was teaching a class of graduate students at a college and ‘tried’ the same lesson - just to see what would happen. NOT A SINGLE HORSE, MASK, or GUN was drawn!
Oh, Clayton Moore - where have you gone!?!

[MyOwnPeace]

3. If YOU know who 'The Lone Ranger' was..........

you've GOT to watch this classic story from The Letterman Show!

[a kennedy]

4. And wow White Diamonds??? Ok.....ya got me. WE'RE OLD!!!!!

Sad isn’t it??

[Bluestocking]

5. So you explained that

Roy Rogers was a fast food restaurant known for their fried chicken and roast beef sandwiches. I don’t recall them serving alcohol but they must have if there is a drink named after the restaurant. I loved their fried chicken.

Young people these days have no sense for nostalgia.

[Chipper Chat]

6. My grandparents took me to see Roy Rogers in 1949.

At the end of the show he led Trigger around the coliseum and all us kids got to pet him.

[Talitha]

7. I live across the road from a very rural WI neighborhood bar.

It's the local watering hole of my small township of less than 400 people and it's filled with neighborhood gossip, so for the most part I stay away from it. Except in the summer when out of state vacationers wander in from local campgrounds - it's nice to see new faces and make new friends.

When I walked in the conversation was about music groups so I mentioned a number of them I'd seen while growing up in Chicago, and regretted not being able to score tickets to see the Beatles when they played the International Amphitheater.

A twenty-something young man never heard of the Beatles, so I told him their names. He'd heard of John Lennon and then said "You mean Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

You could have heard a pin drop.