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Roy Rogers Museum; Closing Doors
Topic Started: Oct 7 2009, 02:55 PM (122 Views)
shelbyvinje	Oct 7 2009, 02:55 PM Post #1
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 420 Group: Members Member #470 Joined: June 3, 2008	The Roy Rogers Museum is closing its doors. www.royrogers.com http://www.royrogers.com/announcement.html



JazzGuyy	Oct 8 2009, 02:35 AM Post #2
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 2,180 Group: Members Member #110 Joined: June 1, 2006	This is sad but understandable. The number of people who remember Roy is shrinking all the time. Very few young people these days seem interested in anything that happened more than 10 years ago. The really sad part is that this is another symptom of the lack of interest in our cultural heritage.



panzer the great & terrible	Oct 8 2009, 03:20 AM Post #3
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,355 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Well, somebody has to say it: the whole point of museums is to keep culture alive. If a museum has to close, it hasn't been doing its job. In the case of Roy Rogers, the films have been butchered -- had the museum been doing what it should do, we'd see them as they were originally made, as we can the Autry pictures. I suspect the real problem in this case is that there are too many fingers in the pie -- as I recollect, Roy and Dale raised 11 kids, and what with one thing and another, the original meaning of the museum may have gotten lost. Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Oct 8 2009, 08:11 AM.
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Black Tiger	Oct 8 2009, 01:37 PM Post #4
Charter Member Posts: 1,814 Group: Members Member #50 Joined: September 15, 2005	I remember going to a Roy Rogers restaurant a number of years ago and seeing a framed picture of Roy behind the counter on the wall. I know Roy had already long terminated his relationship with the restaurant, but I remarked to the cashier that it was really nice they kept a picture of Roy up. The cashier looked at me in bored curiosity and answered "I always wondered who that was."



Sgt King	Oct 8 2009, 08:20 PM Post #5
Charter Member Posts: 371 Group: Members Member #29 Joined: September 5, 2005	I too am sad that the museum is closing. I was training at an air force base in San Bernadino the summer of '78 and a few of us drove to Victorville on the weekend to tour it. I wanted some of those movie posters so bad. Roy was not there that day so I didn't get to meet him. I wrote him a fan letter and asked for a photo. He sent me a signed 8x10 and it still hangs in my office. Right up there alongside a photo of Bryan and I with the famous, and lovable, Frank Bank. And I won't insult the intelligence of the people who haunt this site by stating who he is.



rodney	Oct 9 2009, 04:17 AM Post #6
Charter Member Posts: 1,304 Group: Members Member #3 Joined: September 2, 2005	We still have a Roy Rogers restaurant here. Where else can you get a holster of fries, and a slice of ham on your cheeseburger?
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JazzGuyy	Oct 9 2009, 07:05 AM Post #7
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 2,180 Group: Members Member #110 Joined: June 1, 2006	The Roy Rogers restaurants have an interesting history. They were established by Marriott back when that company was in the restaurant business. Marriott had started as a root beer stand in Washington, D.C. back in the '30s. They had grown into a chain of largely local restaurants called Hot Shoppes which were essentially similar to a Howard Johnson's (or a modern Denny's). In the '50s, Marriott moved into the hotel business. A few years later when McDonald's and similar fast food places were becoming very successful, Marriott wanted to get into that business and decided to use Roy's name. They paid Roy an annual license fee for his name (I heard it was around $100,000) and Roy also did personal appearances and made commercials on the restaurants' behalf. The restaurants were a cross between McDonald's and KFC because they served both burgers and fried chicken. Both their burgers and chicken were a cut above the competition's IMO. We frequented RR restaurants a lot when I lived in the D.C. area. About 20 years or so ago Marriott was getting out of the restaurant business and sold the Roy Rogers chain (which by that time covered from New York to the Carolinas and a few other places) to Hardees. Hardees converted the bulk of the restaurants to their name but a few were allowed (for reasons unknown to me) to keep the Roy Rogers name. Obviously a few still survive, mostly in D.C area and parts of Maryland and a few other places. I remember watching the Happy Trails Theater a number of years ago on the old TNN and Roy made a positive reference to McDonald's and Dale chided him for not saying something about his "own" restaurants. I suspect he didn't mention it because there weren't any RR restaurants around where Roy lived but plenty of McDonald's. I think by that time he may also no longer have been getting the annual payments either. Edited by JazzGuyy, Oct 9 2009, 07:16 AM.



Chandu	Oct 9 2009, 10:03 AM Post #8
Knowledge Seeker and rascal at large Posts: 10,276 Group: Members Member #297 Joined: October 19, 2007	I've eaten in a Roy Rogers restaraunt in Salem, Oregon. Maybe not part of the Marriott chain, though. Great burgers, and decorated in a '50's motiff.
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panzer the great & terrible	Oct 9 2009, 10:25 AM Post #9
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,355 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Funny you should mention Hot Shoppes. Their hot fudge ice cream cake was something special, and they made a better burger than anybody else around, except maybe Steak 'n' Shake, which still exists at least in Indiana and Missouri. Now here's a probing question: do Big Boy restaurants still exist? I haven't seen one in ages.
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Oct 9 2009, 10:51 AM Post #10
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,184 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	We had Big Boy restaurants in Ohio, and the last time I was there with the wife and kids, we went. Since then, via the miracle known as the internet, I found out that the Big Boy we visited, closed. According to the 'net, I've attached the states with such reataurants (in yella). The 2nd attachment has cities in California with BBs. Edited in... The only city in N Carolina with a BB is Cherokee. Attached to this post: Big_Boy_States.jpg (73.34 KB) In_Cali.jpg (18.62 KB) Edited by Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer, Oct 9 2009, 10:53 AM.
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JazzGuyy	Oct 9 2009, 10:54 AM Post #11
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 2,180 Group: Members Member #110 Joined: June 1, 2006	Chandu Oct 9 2009, 10:03 AM I've eaten in a Roy Rogers restaraunt in Salem, Oregon. Maybe not part of the Marriott chain, though. Great burgers, and decorated in a '50's motiff. I think some RR restaurants were franchised so they might have moved outside the Marriott territory.


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