Saddles Get New Life

[W. Gray]

Received my copy of the Prairie Star, today. Rudy Taylor had an interesting personal reminiscence titled "A Sad Old Saddle Gets New Life." The story concerns a saddle custom made for his father. If you have not read it, it is an excellent Good Old Days story.

His story jogged my memory of a photo in a book I have somewhere around here.

The photo scene is an interior shot of a London movie theater in the early 1950s. Westerns reigned supreme back then even in England. The last two rows of the movie theater contained authentic American western saddles arranged on individual wooden barrels.

The kids could sit in a saddle and watch Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Lash LaRue or whoever else was riding across the screen.

I guess these seats were first come-first served.