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From: "franceswilless" <>
Subject: Re: [TXBELL] Roy Rogers in Belton?
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 08:26:52 -0600
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It breaks my heart to hear that Roy Rogers stopped at Hayden's Cafe and I knew nothing about it. I lived only one door down, and just can't believe we didn't even know they were there! Maybe he heard about the delicious hamburgers they served there. The Haydens and all the people who worked there were so friendly; for years that cafe was my second home.
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From: jackie morgan
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Subject: Re: [TXBELL] Roy Rogers in Belton?


Yes, Gayle,
A collection like that would be wonderful to add to beh Belton Historical Collection.

Better yet would be anecdotes added to each picture from your mother and possibly a picture of your Dad's restaurant where they were welcomed to the Belton area.

Happy New Year!
Jackie

Bill & Gayle Cloud <> wrote:
My father , Nolen Hayden, had a restaurant on Main Street - Hayden's Cafe. Roy Rogers and his group stopped there at one time - my mother has pictures of him with me as a child, my aunts and her and Daddy. This may have been the time. It was not unusual for Daddy to close the restuarant and serve entertainers coming to Camp Hood. Mother has many pictures with autographs. She is 91 and still very alert...even drives! I should ask her what she plans to do with these pictures. They would make a great addition to the Belton Historical Collection.

Gayle H. Cloud
franceswilless wrote:
I was the biggest Roy Rogers fan in the world, but when he came to Temple for a personal appearance during WW II, about 1943 or the first part of 1944, I didn't get to go see him. After his show (probably at the Arcadia Theater) he traveled through Belton south bound on Main Street, which was Hwy 81 then, with a police escort. I think he was on his way to Camp Hood. If he stopped in Belton at all it would have been before his appearance in Temple, so I'm guessing the picture was made in Temple. I was still going to Tyler Elementary, and finished 8th grade there in 1944. That summer I visited my grandmother in Los Angles and got to see the Roy Rogers Rodeo.

The Story of G.I. Joe had its premier at the Beltonian. I didn't attend that, either, but several months later went in the Beltonion just in time to see girls having hysterics all over the place. Robert Walker, who starred in the show, had just dropped by to visit and had signed autographs.
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Hello All:

I am trying to date a photograph in our collection and thought those of you on the list might be able to help. The photo shows Roy Rogers with the Cluck family of Belton. I know that the Clucks owned the Beltonian Theater at some point, so I assume that he was promoting a movie, but I certainly could be wrong. I'm wondering if anyone who grew up in the area remembers when/why Roy Rogers came to Belton. The donor thinks that it was sometime during the 1940s, right around the time that the film based on the military service of Beltonian Henry Waskow, was released. (The movie was released in 1945.) Any additional info that anyone can provide would be most appreciated!

Happy New Year,
Amanda Thompson Dyer
Curator
Bell County Museum


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