Gentlemen ...
I'll always remember playing golf at Apple Valley Country Club in Victorville, CA, with my best friend [I think I was about 19 at the time, I'm now 64] and an assistant pro I worked with at Los Penasquitos Country Club in San Diego. The reason I can still remember this day is not so much the golf, although the Appple Valley Country Club was a beautiful high desert course, but who I met after the round.
As a kid, I always watched the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans TV shows. Well, after the round of golf we ended up at the Roy Rogers Apple Valley Inn for dinner and a few drinks. The assistant pro was an older fella who thought it was OK for young men to have a drink now and then, under the right kind of supervision, and of course, he thought he was the right kind.
Anyway, as we drifted on in to the Apple Valley Inn, who do you think we met in the lobby? Roy? No. Dale? No. But there he was, all in his magnificent splendor, as big and as spectacular as ever. Who was it? It was Roy's best friend ... Trigger !!! He had been stuffed after his passing, dressed in a beautiful silver saddle, and placed in a huge glass case for everyone to admire as they entered the lobby. I'll never forget that day as long as I live. Art