Believe it or not, there was a time in my life when I could hear the word "trigger" and not think about shifters. For that matter, there was even a time when that word would not bring firearms to my mind.
The reason for that is that I was born a little too late to watch '50's TV shows and movies when they first ran. I did, however, get a fairly steady diet of them in reruns. It seemed that whenever you flipped the channels, you could find an episode of "I Love Lucy" or "The Honeymooners". Or "Lassie" or "Dragnet". And, of course, there were the shows that continued to produce original episodes well into my childhood, and even on the eve of my puberty: I am thinking now of "Perry Mason" and "Leave It To Beaver".
It also seemed impossible to escape from showings of films like "The Ten Commandments" or "Ben Hur". Another movie that, as I recall, often showed on the small screen was "Son of Paleface."
In the latter, one of the "stars" was a Palomino horse named--you guessed it--"Trigger". Astride him in "Paleface", and in many other movies, was none other than Roy Rogers.
Because he and his cinematic (and real-life) partner Dale Evans so often appeared with their equine companion, it's not easy to imagine either of them riding anything else. But, apparently, they did, every now and again, trade their spurs for pedals and hooves for wheels:
The reason for that is that I was born a little too late to watch '50's TV shows and movies when they first ran. I did, however, get a fairly steady diet of them in reruns. It seemed that whenever you flipped the channels, you could find an episode of "I Love Lucy" or "The Honeymooners". Or "Lassie" or "Dragnet". And, of course, there were the shows that continued to produce original episodes well into my childhood, and even on the eve of my puberty: I am thinking now of "Perry Mason" and "Leave It To Beaver".
It also seemed impossible to escape from showings of films like "The Ten Commandments" or "Ben Hur". Another movie that, as I recall, often showed on the small screen was "Son of Paleface."
In the latter, one of the "stars" was a Palomino horse named--you guessed it--"Trigger". Astride him in "Paleface", and in many other movies, was none other than Roy Rogers.
Because he and his cinematic (and real-life) partner Dale Evans so often appeared with their equine companion, it's not easy to imagine either of them riding anything else. But, apparently, they did, every now and again, trade their spurs for pedals and hooves for wheels:
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