Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear...

[kentuck]

[samnsara]

1. i love all old b/w shows..they are my escape from th 24/7 news cycle....

….lone ranger isnt one of my favs however. Tonto was confusing.... wasnt he supposed to be Harvard educated?

[rsdsharp]

8. I believe you're thinking of Mingo from "Daniel Boone."

He was supposed to be Oxford educated.

[zanana1]

2. Thanks for that!

When I was a kid, my brothers always watched it. I never questioned the fact that he was shooting at nothing. Nice little trip down memory lane, though.

[rurallib]

3. May I add the "Lone Ranger story" from Letterman?

[Duppers]

9. THAT is one of THE FUNNIEST, best stories ever!

I think Jay Thomas told it at least twice on Letterman, adding different info each time - not that he contradicted himself.

What a hoot! It beats Michael Douglas' story about Bob Dylan's dog eating his caviar.

[Submariner]

4. While watching the Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers

I was always amazed at all the giant boulder fields they would run their horses through. It got me thinking that the entire wild west was nothing but rocks and boulder fields. All in B&W so my Dad's B&W TV was just fine.

[gibraltar72]

5. In watching Lone Ranger reruns

I realized he was teaching us so much. Everything we fight today he tried to tell us. Womens rights, racism, greed. I'm in my 70s and I never realized back then how much he was actually guiding as he entertained.

[Aristus]

6. When I was a kid, I respected the Lone Ranger for his compassion, cool-headedness,

and good nature.

Bub I loved Tonto.

And I thought 'Jay Silverheels' was the coolest name I'd ever heard.

[bobbieinok]

7. In 40s we kids heard Lone Ranger on radio. Grade school music teacher made us learn name---

of classical music that was the theme of the radio and later the tv show.

Several times a week she would play classical pieces that students requested. Whenever someone would ask for The Lone Ranger, she would ask for the real name of the music.

[lunatica]

10. My mother was a pre-school teacher in Child Development

She would teach her kids the names of the authors who wrote the children’s books and would tell them to go get a book written by so-and-so. The kids always returned with the correct books.

She also put up the alphabet pictures in random sequence so they really learned the letters as individual things and not as the sing song running chant. That worked too.

She taught herself to read before she ever attended school, so I figure she was on to something.

[red dog 1]

11. I loved all the cowboy TV shows; but The Lone Ranger was my favorite!

I think it came on Thursday night.

K&R