Back in the late 1930s we would go to Old Fox Theater in Phoenix every Saterday and spend the day watching Western Movies and all the Great Movie Cowboys of that time !
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Then in the Late 1939 There was a Block Buster Film Called,
"Stagecoach"
From That time on I was a John Wayne Fan !!!
Chilibill
Posts from William T Brooks in thread „How Did You Become A John Wayne Fan?“
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Terry,
I Second What Chester Said, So Don't Worry about it , Just get in Here and Have Fun Making Posts, we need More Young Blood on The Site !!!
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Chilibill -
Ok you ask for it! It was in the late 1930s in Phoenix, Arizona, and as young kids we would go to the Saturday movies at the old Fox Movie Theater in down town Phoenix. In those days there would be Two main Movies, a Serial like Flash Gordon, and the News of the day. Some times we would sit thru them at least two times. This was long before T.V. and the Computer.
Some time in 1939 there was a Big Promo drive on a new film that was shot in Monument Valley that was about 200 miles north of Phoenix as the bird flys. The name of the Film was "Stagecoach" and was to have as one of the Stars "John Wayne" that we had seen in the B-Westerns many times before at the old Fox Theater. When the movie came we made a big thing of going to the movie because we had gone on a camping trip to Monument Valley a year before and wanted to see all the places at the movies, that we had seen before in person. Duke played The Ringo Kid and from that time on that was who I wanted to be, I was about 9 years old. That movie made John Wayne a Big Star.
Some 10 years later I was to work in 4 of the Duke's films that were done in Northern Arizona at Sedona, Monument Valley and Moab Ut. as a Extra and Handyman. And then about 25 years later to spend 3 days with him in Northern California! So I think you could say that I have been a "Duke Fan" for about 65 years. Chilibill
