Alamo Fast Draw Episode 25

9 August, 2008 (01:25) | Fast Draw Talk Show, History, Western Movies

Alamo Fast Draw; Episode 25
LLedslinger: Blackbird do you have anything for us tonight?
Blackbird: This story goes back to my boyhood more than 1/2 century ago. It's hard to believe it's been that long, I can't place the year. If it helps me they were putting chromium letters on the trunks of some of the new cars, which had impressive speed messages like fluid drive, Dina flow. The scary new Hudson's the ones with the upside down shark grin, they said Twin H Power. Anyway it was somewhere in the early fifties and it was a hot weekend afternoon on a Saturday I'm sure but the day's oppressive is what I really recall. That long line of kids, that slow broad line that could have been a mile long winding slow serpentine across what we've been called a shopping center! The posh and totally new chestnut Hill shopping center on the outskirts or what I guess she would call suburban Boston. This was the crown of wealth driven consumer utopians just cooking in the Saturday afternoon sun. I shuffled and sweltered and stumbled along with a few hundred other kids on that death march because at the end of that in this procession we knew Mr. Madison and Mr. Devine were waiting to meet us. The faithful fans of TV's Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles, two of the coolest gods in the shooter corn popped pantheon. Of course I mean cool for then because then Mr. Guy Madison the lean youngish action figure in buckskins was the epitome of cool in those days. He was all panache, good heavens he wore his six-guns backwards. Two big bone handles out in front, that's got to be cool, that was no and cooled type. Now this wasn't Gene Autry with flowers on his shirt and Jingles might not fit through all the doors but face it these guys both were marshals, trained marshals. The sun was beating down, sometimes the line slows down, sometimes it stops way way out ahead our son bleach eyes could make out the shimmering quasi human figures kind of dancing in a hazy liquid tide of mastic vapor ware these demoniac dancers disappears around the corner defined by the Titan bulk of a neo nightmarish sphinx or perhaps just beyond it a small child's voice Wales up to the verge of full scream. The primal death cry of the Mendicant Urchin, it says,(this green is wordless but it would say) I will not relinquish my space in the line nor will I be taken home. I am close upon the presence of my mentor and nie to shaking his hand and you shall not deter my progress or those of my friend or both of us will breathe our last upon this blasted Heath for your attempt to stop our way.

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