They moved to Branson due to the State of Cailfornia taxing everything the family owned with way out of line inhertiance taxes. However, even Branson got hit with the economy & that museum closed too. Everything was sold. Trigger & Bullet are now owned by the RFDTV Cable Channel & was featured in the Rose Bowl Parade this year. I visited in 83 when I was a kid & took Roys dog Sammy for a walk. Sammy yodled. God Bless Roy & Dale & the Rogers Family.
My mom and dad got to see the museum as they were travelling through Apple Valley, The stopped and toured it. At that time the museum was slated to close soon. While they were there Roy came in, as I heard he often did. What a treat for them? I was so jealous! I wish I had seen the museum before it closed. How sad that it had to close!
Trigger & Bullet were purchased by the RFD channel, & are in the buildings' lobby. Both were on the last float just Jan 2, in the Rose Bowl Parade, to honor Roy, as he would've been 100, Nov. 5, 2011.
Sad the museum closed-I saw it once. They were ALWAYS THERE to greet visitors, but the day *I* was there, they were at a local event honoring Roy's 60th Anniversary of his 1st movie. Tho I never got to meet them, I LOVED seeing their life in that museum. Something was lost the day it closed.
You know to this day I still miss the museum. Now its a car sales place. =( But its still awesome how I went to preschool with his grandson Brice. I still will never forget those field trip To that old museum r.i.p museum.
The museum moved to Branson, Missouri, and only recently everything was sold off for cash to the highest bidder...damn shame...how should I show my children what life was like before everything turned ghetto and disrespectful? Really.
@DSKRANCH My cousin saw Dusty Rogers and spoke with him while they were packing and starting to tear down everything, Dusty had told him everything was going to be set up in Ark. at a new location for the museum......?
I lived in Victorville from 1987 until 2005 just 2 miles from the museum and never visited it. I wish now that I had and am saddened that I'll never get to enjoy all of the wonderful memorabilia and memories of Roy and Dale.
I visited the museum back in 2001 and enjoyed it . This video fails to show the beautiful shirts and outfits that Roy had hanging in a glass encased room at the museum. You gotta show the outfits.
There is a reason we shouldn't live forever; we'd be too damn disgusted to get out of bed! With each passing of a hero goes a little piece of our souls and our collective identity fades to twilight. It is true; we did grow up in a very special time.
You were my hero when I was a kid, ThankYou for all those fabulous Saturdays that I awaited your show. I am a man now and you are still my hero, My heart aches that you have left us,,,Happy Trails on the other side till we meet again.
Just goes to show that nothing lasts forever! Roy and Dale were a big deal to me when I was a kid and it's hard to believe that no one is interested anymore...
Thanks for showing the original museum and playing their theme song Happy Trails. It's such a shame the museum closed and the collection was sold off. I was too young to watch their show in the 50's so it had to be reruns in the early 60's that I caught because I always wanted to be Dale Evans for Halloween. Wanted to be a cowgirl with the fringe and boots riding Buttermilk.
I got up every morning before daylight to watch reruns of his movies on our 10" Philco TV when I was in elementary school to fortify myself for another day. What a hero's crush I had on that handsome cowpoke ...
I always wanted to see the original musem, I saw Roy/Dale/Trigger/Buttermilk, Pat and his jeep Nelebelle all at Rodeo when I was five, he was always my hero, it's sad no one bought the collection when it went on sale not to long ago as a whole, it is wrong the collection was broken up, but today with so many not caring about the west, and so many recent imports to our country treating it as a joke, I can see why it happened.
Victorville is 180 miles from L.A you think the average tourist is going to spend three hours just to get there when in L.A everything is pretty much within 10-15 miles at the center of the movie industry.
Bummer that is closed. I met Roy and Dale several times when I was working out at George AFB. Roy was a funny guy and a bit of a drunk at times, and Dale was a bit of a shrew who used to go down to the local watering hole and drag him out by his ear.
Too bad Dusty is such a poor businessman with little regard for the sentimentality of Roy Rogers fans. BTW SurferJoe46 who cares what you think Roy Rogers was one of the greatest role models for kids this country ever had.
Marvelous, as they were. Saw in Madison Square Garden, they, as my parents, heroes/ inspiration to live the higher road. 1969 purchased Golden Stallion, in Phoenix, flew to Puerto Rico, joy of life for 25 years. Trained him similar to Trigger Jr., silver saddle, Nudie outfit etc. performed shows, local stadiums, became most famous horse here. Roy and trainer Glenn Randal, EXTRAORDINARY. Takes years to perfect personal performances, yet look so easy. While I live, they all live, Ray,
The museum in Branson closed too. Today, July 14, 2010, Trigger was sold for $266,000 at Christie's in NYC. Roy and Dale deserved better (guess it's some sort of tribute that folks were willing to pay what they did). See you in Heaven.; they were true Christians.
@aardvark1956 i agree so much with you...i met roy and dale a couple times at my grandma's church when i was younger and they lived about 10 miles from her in apple valley....they were truly amazing people and ones who didnt let stardum go to there heads like everyone else
It's a shame that the Roy Rogers museum in Branson is closing and no one wants Trigger, Buttermilk or Bullet!! Not even the Smithsonian!! Come on Kentucky Horse Park give them a final home please!!
Looks like this is as close to seeing these things as I'll ever get, now. What a shame. That's for posting this... It's all that's left. Just like the films and records.
In defence of Rusty, Its the IRS Internal tax revenue that bought the museum down. The saddle from the horse Trigger was bought for $500 Maybe but cause its a collectors item it was valued at probadly $000,000 six figures and some one had to pay the inheritance tax on all this stuff. To break even alot of the collectors items had to be auctioned off from the museum. What good is a museum with nothing in it.
Maybe it was time. My only critic, was that it was so unreachable. You need a car for everything in LA. And, I think Roy & Dale would want us t move on.
@saltycaribou LMAO You sir Obviously know NOTHING about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and how this song Was and always will be their trademark closing song. There you know have a response to your posting so move along and try to cause trouble somewhere else for you'll not get anything more here to fulfill your need for drama.
@saltycaribou LMAO You sir Obviously know NOTHING about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and how this song Was and always will be their trademark closing song. There you know have a response to your posting so move along and try to cause trouble somewhere else for you'll not get anything more here to fulfill your need for drama.
I had been gone from Victorville for about two years by the time this happened, but it is still sad to think about this happening. Roy and Dale were next door neighbors to some of our close friends, and both of them were patients at St Mary Regional Hospital on occasion. Too sad.
Just read the comments and did not realize that the museum was moved to Branson and that was the point of this video. That makes it even bitter that the place is now gone forever. Alot of people are slamming the family and Dusty saying greed ruined things. From what I read online Dusty said Roy told them if the museum cost too much to sell it. Dusty also hinted that the estate money was tied up in the museum and other family wanted money as did the IRS. Sounds like there were no options left.
Thanks for making this. I never have been out of Ottawa but would have love to have visited. I wish my mom who died in 98 was able to see this video. She grew up in Detroit and for years told me all about Roy Rogers. I was able to see bits on tv as a kid in the 70s. They seemed very much in love and thats a rare thing these days. I just read online that Dusty tried to get his Dads friends to save the place. Sadly its not going to happen and the stuff is going to auction.
Is it wrong to be 20 and dig this kind of stuff. But by the time I am 70, phew, this will all probably be forgotten...Sad. But I will remember it. Anyway, I don't think it is greed that is Dusty's problem. The fanbase is just old. My generation, generally, does not appreciate this type of stuff. Sad but true...I hope Heaven, though, will be a place to be young again and enjoy this stuff.
i hope dusty rogers gets run over by a horse..and just before he dies a german shepherd comes over and raises a leg over his face.
he sold out his parents legacy so he could keep his pathetic singing career going in branson. somebody should look at the books of that museum and dusty rogers production company. what a complete jerk.
We were fortunate enough to visit this museum in June 2002. I had a great peaceful feeling of walking the halls & rooms that Dale & Roy themselves use to walk down! Towards the end of our visit, We sadly learned that the museum was moving to Branson! That realy bummed me out to hear that! I don't realy think that I'll ever visit the museum in Branson which is much closer to our location! I'd rather make the trip to Apple Valley/ Victorville again anytime!
@getkicksonrte66 You may be right, but, we know they can't take it with them. They were very religious. Roy & Dale will tell you they brought nothing in, and will take nothing out.
Zipper -- you may not be able to take it with you---however I feel all their wonderful posessions should have remained in the desert they loved and again I reiterate Dusty was/is greedy!!
But gee we have a Roy Rogers Drive at the exact freeway exit where the museum used to be!!
I went to the victorville museum a couple times.I loved it.I hated to hear they moved it.But reading the comments I learned it is in Branson now.I live in Iowa so I guess it is closer now.I will have to take the kids to see it.
Visited the museum in Victorville around 1992. Then in Branson about 3 years ago. Maybe it is my imagination but the one in Victorville seemed larger. We saw the show in Branson and Dusty came out after for pictures. What a wonderful family.
There will be another hero like Roy Rogers!!!! I saw him at our Iowa State Fair in 1960 and remember every second of it. God Blessed Us with Roy and Dale . R.I.P.
I loved Roy. I saw him at the Victorville museum in the 80's but he was has a wonderful moment sitting on the tail gate of his pick up talking to a little boy, man to man, so we didn't interupte him. I can't tell you how much it meant to me to see him being so sweet to this boy. I knew right then that Roy is what I grew up thinking him to be.
Not many people notice that Roy was an excellent rider. Trigger was a powerful horse so I am sure Roy had to stay on his toes to ride him.
These people were CLASS personified. We sure need more people like them out there today. I visited this museum a couple years before it left Victorville. So sad to see it go.
king of the cowboys??? your damn right.... met him when I was a kid. he stood for something great, and also , lived it.... this world's gone to hell and people just don't care- he did.!!!!!!!
Visited the museum in '97 and met Roy & Cheryl. What a fine gentlenman. I still have my RR Boot Bank that I got for Christmas in '52. I hope they can bring it all together in Branson and keep it going for a long time.
That branson museum isn't doing any better then when they were in Victorville. I read in the daily press there in the hole 70 thousand & might lose it
I know the Roger family personally because my mom is best friends with Dustys daughter Shawna. I Visited the museum a couple of years ago. They r doin great but not as great as they hoped. Not many older people live in victorville so they moved to branson which is like the old people capital of the country. So theyre doing ok.
When Roy and Dale passed away the interest in the museum faded... lets face it. Most people under 50 years old have know idea who they were. Their son Dusty moved the museum to Branson MO. Dusty and his band now appear there and peform tributes to his parents and the museum is doing great.
I remember me and my cousins comin' up and visitin "Granpa and Granma in the desert" in the summertime{We hated it} and visitin' the museum...Now I reside up in this bitch{fer' the last 12 yearz} and miss the way it used to be.
Why in the world would they close such a wonderful piece of history?...What was the reason?...I can't believe someone would want to destroy history in favor of a few dollars profit.
Over 60 years ago I began going to Roy and Dale's movies, listening to their music and following their lives with the tragedies and successes. They were wonderful Christian people and I miss them tremendously.
I live two blocks away in Victorville off of Armogosa, and was able to see and visit the museum anytime. Unfortunately "progress" has ripped out this gem and replaced it with a Home Depot mega shopping center. Oh well, I hope the family made a killing off the land.
How sad !!!! Roy & Dale were country before it was Cool. They were the founding fathers so to speak of what Country Music is today. Opened a Lot of Doors for other people. A True CLASS Act.
We visited the museum in Victorville around 1992 and then in Branson about 2 1/2 years ago. It doesn't seem to have as much in Branson. We did get to meet Roy, Jr. and my wife was thrilled to have her picture taken with him. Their show was one of the best in Branson.
Great video. I grew up in the Scioto County, Ohio where Roy Rogers lived as a boy. In the 1950s Roy Rogers was my hero and his movies were very popular. I remember two of the three movie theaters in Portsmouth showing Roy Rogers movies and the kids lined up around the corner at both theaters on Saturday morning waiting to get in. Both theaters were full. Great clean movies and they were good times for us. I miss those days and Roy and Dale. Happy Trails!
Thanks for the video. Roy and Dale were definately people who gave back to the public. They helped start the "Happy Trails Children's Foundation" and supported the Cooper Home for abused children. They visited children in hospitals, attended hundreds of fundraisers, and the list goes on. I enjoyed visiting the museum a couple of times. I hope to visit it again in MO.
He was my hero while growing up. Then I met him at his museum in the late 70's and he became even more of a hero. To shake the hand of a childhood hero is awesome and will never be forgotten.
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO:-))I had a major crush on Roy Rogers when I was 13yrs old.We only had one TV in those days.Roy's Show was on the same time as Wrestling which was my mothers favorite.She would not let me watch the Roy Rogers show...so I went down the Alleys to check to see who had the Show on TV. I found a House,so I watched it through the Window. Wouldn't be able to do this now adays. Roy was awesome...G
I did not know the museum was gone. That is so sad. My parents met Roy there and were privilaged to have a cup of coffee and a long visit with him. They loved him even more after their visit. I feel they played a huge part in shaping my character on the screen as I grew up. They were wonderful roll models. I miss them both very much.
Thanks maxine for adding this clip. Roy and Dale were very special people. I visited the museum with my wife many years ago and Roy was there talking with the guests. I know they are both now in the presence of our Lord, for they both had a wonderful testimony...
I remember my father visiting me at George AFB in June of '84 and the two of us going to the museum. We both enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I never saw Roy Rogers while stationed in the High Desert, but lots of other people I knew from the base would see him from time to time, like at the Victor Bowl.
My dad worked over at the kia for awhile man i remember when it was torn down it was sad i always wanted to go there living in the victorville area well ok then peace otu and view my video and leave comments ok see yah g2g!!!
A Freakin car dealership!Shit!Sons of B-----s.Aho thats makes me sooo mad.There's no respect these days.One of these days soon God's gonna show up and there gonna pay!Ohhh there gonna pay.
cont... i even took some kids there a time or two it is sad to think that the america we knew is dying for what?....used car lots to all our cowboy heros roy dale gene lane and all the others may you rest in peace and i hope that you r all riding in the wide open spaces in the wild montana sky may the wind be always at your backs and the trail will always bring you home into the far reaches of hearts and momories and let the cowboy way go on forever........mountainman
another great loss to america's cowboy heritage roy was one of my all time cowboy heros and now as i ride the rodeos i think sometimes of the great ones roy and gene tex ritter lane frost the list goes on and on and it is w/ tears in my eyes and an ache in my heart that i realize we truly are the last of a dying breed their momory lives on "heres hoping there'll always be a cowboy" !!!! i was lucky enough to have been at the museum several time before it closed
Suburbanites? I'm not sure that fits. With all the tagging and gang activities, it feels a bit more "urban" than that. Which is why we moved thirty miles further into the desert.
Is it true the Roy Rogers grave has also been removed from Victorville? went to visit it in 2001, beautiful location, I belive that it is also the last resting place of dale Regards from the UK
I moved up to victorville in 2001 and it wasn't until Jan. 2002 I decided to check out the museum. I'm extremely glad that I had the opportunity to visit it. Although it was a shame though when it was starting to sell a lot of it stuff and then it eventually closed.
And you know whats there now, a freakn car dealership, it drives me crazy everytime I see that lot.
I'm convinced those two never threw anything away. When I visited, I donated some Roy Rogers comic books I'd picked up in Portugal. Back in those days, when he appeared to sing on variety shows, he'd wear a gun. These days, nobody would be allowed to wear a gun, but the shows are too vulgar to watch. That's progress?
I was also a Apple Valley resident for 30 years and grew up watching his movies and tv shows-I was lucky to meet him many years ago at the victorville swapmeet,He's truly missed as far as I'm concerned
My wife and I went to the Roy Rogers museum in Victorville just before it closed. What we saw we didn't believe. He had been an African big game hunter living a very dark side with all sorts of pictures, movies and trophies with stuffed animals in the displays; horses, dogs, and mounted dead things. He had elephant foot umbrella stands, water buffalo ashtrays and crocodile desk sets. The only thing missing was a stuffed Dale Evens and Pat Brady.
Those were different times, when hunting for sport was acceptable and even common. Although we might disagree with that now, and I do, I don't judge him by today's standards. I still enjoyed his tv show and singing.
This video makes me cry. Roy and Dale were two people I truly admired. I wanted to meet them more than anyone. I had a brother that had the same handicap as one of their children
By the time we got to go, both Roy and Dale had taken the Happy Trails to the sky. But you could sense their presence throughout the place. He was my favorite cowboy of all time.
I lived in Victorville 18 years before I finally visited the museum. It was great! Roy was there but I did not want to bother him so I did not go up to meet him or ask for his autograph. I kinda wish I would have now.
I was so sad when that place moved: I had been taken there every year of my life until 2002. I had just naturally expected it to be there for me to take my own kids to :-(
They moved to Branson due to the State of Cailfornia taxing everything the family owned with way out of line inhertiance taxes. However, even Branson got hit with the economy & that museum closed too. Everything was sold. Trigger & Bullet are now owned by the RFDTV Cable Channel & was featured in the Rose Bowl Parade this year. I visited in 83 when I was a kid & took Roys dog Sammy for a walk. Sammy yodled. God Bless Roy & Dale & the Rogers Family.
gwhmail 1 week ago
How come they moved it the Branson in the first place?
MIKECNW 1 week ago
My mom and dad got to see the museum as they were travelling through Apple Valley, The stopped and toured it. At that time the museum was slated to close soon. While they were there Roy came in, as I heard he often did. What a treat for them? I was so jealous! I wish I had seen the museum before it closed. How sad that it had to close!
DrinkofWtr 2 weeks ago
Never visited the inside. Seen the outside alot going in and out of the courthouse in the jail bus. As it sat right besides the city jail/courthouse.
alleycatchris760 2 weeks ago
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Trigger & Bullet were purchased by the RFD channel, & are in the buildings' lobby. Both were on the last float just Jan 2, in the Rose Bowl Parade, to honor Roy, as he would've been 100, Nov. 5, 2011.
Sad the museum closed-I saw it once. They were ALWAYS THERE to greet visitors, but the day *I* was there, they were at a local event honoring Roy's 60th Anniversary of his 1st movie. Tho I never got to meet them, I LOVED seeing their life in that museum. Something was lost the day it closed.
derbyday777 1 month ago
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derbyday777 1 month ago
So what happened to the statue of trigger, did they break that up too?
chrstnclmn28 2 months ago
You know to this day I still miss the museum. Now its a car sales place. =( But its still awesome how I went to preschool with his grandson Brice. I still will never forget those field trip To that old museum r.i.p museum.
DecideledM420 2 months ago
Roy was and is my Number One HERO. The man i looked up to and the man i wish i could have been. He is my hero at the movies and in real life.
nybaseball1fan 2 months ago
Roy and Dale were a living testament to everything that was good and decent in this world.
lwarteman 3 months ago
The museum moved to Branson, Missouri, and only recently everything was sold off for cash to the highest bidder...damn shame...how should I show my children what life was like before everything turned ghetto and disrespectful? Really.
DSKRANCH 4 months ago
@DSKRANCH My cousin saw Dusty Rogers and spoke with him while they were packing and starting to tear down everything, Dusty had told him everything was going to be set up in Ark. at a new location for the museum......?
kilo54 2 months ago
I lived in Victorville from 1987 until 2005 just 2 miles from the museum and never visited it. I wish now that I had and am saddened that I'll never get to enjoy all of the wonderful memorabilia and memories of Roy and Dale.
wa6fhx 5 months ago
I visited the museum back in 2001 and enjoyed it . This video fails to show the beautiful shirts and outfits that Roy had hanging in a glass encased room at the museum. You gotta show the outfits.
carlanthony62 5 months ago
Great video. sure do miss the museum and a fantastic couple Roy and Dale
miraje8 6 months ago
There is a reason we shouldn't live forever; we'd be too damn disgusted to get out of bed! With each passing of a hero goes a little piece of our souls and our collective identity fades to twilight. It is true; we did grow up in a very special time.
stukin70s 7 months ago
Never will we live in a time as good as what is represented here.
DJCHRISTO4 7 months ago
Dear Roy and Dale
You were my hero when I was a kid, ThankYou for all those fabulous Saturdays that I awaited your show. I am a man now and you are still my hero, My heart aches that you have left us,,,Happy Trails on the other side till we meet again.
wapiticircle 8 months ago
AWW! Trigger! Bullet! AND Buttermilk! unbelievable...I still have all my pictures from this museum
MyWerewolves 8 months ago
Just goes to show that nothing lasts forever! Roy and Dale were a big deal to me when I was a kid and it's hard to believe that no one is interested anymore...
NikDesigns 8 months ago
Thanks for showing the original museum and playing their theme song Happy Trails. It's such a shame the museum closed and the collection was sold off. I was too young to watch their show in the 50's so it had to be reruns in the early 60's that I caught because I always wanted to be Dale Evans for Halloween. Wanted to be a cowgirl with the fringe and boots riding Buttermilk.
Thanks for the memories :)
tvcat1 9 months ago
It didn't work out in Missouri either, just missed it.
JettRink50 9 months ago
I can't believe that the museum is closed. Somebody was lazy for work.
Good memories for Roy and friends for ever
lmarca21 9 months ago
Beautiful tribute, thanks for sharing. I was a fan also.
nimchang 9 months ago
I got up every morning before daylight to watch reruns of his movies on our 10" Philco TV when I was in elementary school to fortify myself for another day. What a hero's crush I had on that handsome cowpoke ...
TheUbermensch9 10 months ago
I always wanted to see the original musem, I saw Roy/Dale/Trigger/Buttermilk, Pat and his jeep Nelebelle all at Rodeo when I was five, he was always my hero, it's sad no one bought the collection when it went on sale not to long ago as a whole, it is wrong the collection was broken up, but today with so many not caring about the west, and so many recent imports to our country treating it as a joke, I can see why it happened.
htrrz 11 months ago
Wonderful tribute!!! My eyes are felling sorta misty! Thank you for posting!!
jdsmyhero85 1 year ago
And, that was a great place to go. They even had a place in there to watch his movies, if you wanted to.
blufx1963 1 year ago
I got to meet Roy once, at that museum. He was the nicest guy I met in a long time. RIP Roy!
blufx1963 1 year ago
Victorville is 180 miles from L.A you think the average tourist is going to spend three hours just to get there when in L.A everything is pretty much within 10-15 miles at the center of the movie industry.
vegasbob007 1 year ago
@vegasbob007 your wrong sir victorville is exactly 60 miles away less then a hour away
MrHiphop760 1 year ago
Bummer that is closed. I met Roy and Dale several times when I was working out at George AFB. Roy was a funny guy and a bit of a drunk at times, and Dale was a bit of a shrew who used to go down to the local watering hole and drag him out by his ear.
MemKeith 1 year ago
Too bad Dusty is such a poor businessman with little regard for the sentimentality of Roy Rogers fans. BTW SurferJoe46 who cares what you think Roy Rogers was one of the greatest role models for kids this country ever had.
minimumheadroom 1 year ago
@minimumheadroom Well said!!!!!!!
jdsmyhero85 1 year ago
Marvelous, as they were. Saw in Madison Square Garden, they, as my parents, heroes/ inspiration to live the higher road. 1969 purchased Golden Stallion, in Phoenix, flew to Puerto Rico, joy of life for 25 years. Trained him similar to Trigger Jr., silver saddle, Nudie outfit etc. performed shows, local stadiums, became most famous horse here. Roy and trainer Glenn Randal, EXTRAORDINARY. Takes years to perfect personal performances, yet look so easy. While I live, they all live, Ray,
ramboray2001 1 year ago
Its so sad that the museum closed. I always wanted to go there
roz94ful 1 year ago
The museum in Branson closed too. Today, July 14, 2010, Trigger was sold for $266,000 at Christie's in NYC. Roy and Dale deserved better (guess it's some sort of tribute that folks were willing to pay what they did). See you in Heaven.; they were true Christians.
aardvark1956 1 year ago 2
@aardvark1956 i agree so much with you...i met roy and dale a couple times at my grandma's church when i was younger and they lived about 10 miles from her in apple valley....they were truly amazing people and ones who didnt let stardum go to there heads like everyone else
outcastedMISFIT 1 year ago
It is to bad they closed the museum. it was one of my favorite stops going to Ca.
oso976 1 year ago
It's a shame that the Roy Rogers museum in Branson is closing and no one wants Trigger, Buttermilk or Bullet!! Not even the Smithsonian!! Come on Kentucky Horse Park give them a final home please!!
cecigw 1 year ago
Looks like this is as close to seeing these things as I'll ever get, now. What a shame. That's for posting this... It's all that's left. Just like the films and records.
Kramnosnits 1 year ago
In defence of Rusty, Its the IRS Internal tax revenue that bought the museum down. The saddle from the horse Trigger was bought for $500 Maybe but cause its a collectors item it was valued at probadly $000,000 six figures and some one had to pay the inheritance tax on all this stuff. To break even alot of the collectors items had to be auctioned off from the museum. What good is a museum with nothing in it.
dieckk100 1 year ago
Maybe it was time. My only critic, was that it was so unreachable. You need a car for everything in LA. And, I think Roy & Dale would want us t move on.
zipper179 2 years ago
Dream on!!
getkicksonrte66 2 years ago
I love the pictures, thanks for posting this.
RidingWithBigBrown 2 years ago
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This song sucks!
saltycaribou 2 years ago
@saltycaribou LMAO You sir Obviously know NOTHING about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and how this song Was and always will be their trademark closing song. There you know have a response to your posting so move along and try to cause trouble somewhere else for you'll not get anything more here to fulfill your need for drama.
Good -day to you..
DJMarl 1 year ago
@DJMarl I don't even remember commenting on this. Sorry, forgot.
Tell me, What did i say?
saltycaribou 1 year ago
@saltycaribou LMAO You sir Obviously know NOTHING about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and how this song Was and always will be their trademark closing song. There you know have a response to your posting so move along and try to cause trouble somewhere else for you'll not get anything more here to fulfill your need for drama.
Good -day to you..
DJMarl 1 year ago
I had been gone from Victorville for about two years by the time this happened, but it is still sad to think about this happening. Roy and Dale were next door neighbors to some of our close friends, and both of them were patients at St Mary Regional Hospital on occasion. Too sad.
SeattleCruiselover 2 years ago
Sadly, the museum was closed and then replaced with a bunch of car-dealerships that are currently being bailed out by the City of Victorville.
bentstrider 2 years ago
Just read the comments and did not realize that the museum was moved to Branson and that was the point of this video. That makes it even bitter that the place is now gone forever. Alot of people are slamming the family and Dusty saying greed ruined things. From what I read online Dusty said Roy told them if the museum cost too much to sell it. Dusty also hinted that the estate money was tied up in the museum and other family wanted money as did the IRS. Sounds like there were no options left.
CatpurrRobertaBobbi 2 years ago
Sounds like BS to me!
getkicksonrte66 2 years ago
Thanks for making this. I never have been out of Ottawa but would have love to have visited. I wish my mom who died in 98 was able to see this video. She grew up in Detroit and for years told me all about Roy Rogers. I was able to see bits on tv as a kid in the 70s. They seemed very much in love and thats a rare thing these days. I just read online that Dusty tried to get his Dads friends to save the place. Sadly its not going to happen and the stuff is going to auction.
CatpurrRobertaBobbi 2 years ago
Don't believe everything you read online!!!!!
getkicksonrte66 2 years ago
Is it wrong to be 20 and dig this kind of stuff. But by the time I am 70, phew, this will all probably be forgotten...Sad. But I will remember it. Anyway, I don't think it is greed that is Dusty's problem. The fanbase is just old. My generation, generally, does not appreciate this type of stuff. Sad but true...I hope Heaven, though, will be a place to be young again and enjoy this stuff.
comeonfolks 2 years ago
I'm sorry o say the branson museum closed on sunday due to the economy and soaring operating costs.
blankthree 2 years ago
I loved the museum and met Roy several times there. Only met Dale once. Sorry it couldn't remain there and prosper. It was a GREAT place for RR fans.
shigsho 2 years ago
i hope dusty rogers gets run over by a horse..and just before he dies a german shepherd comes over and raises a leg over his face.
he sold out his parents legacy so he could keep his pathetic singing career going in branson. somebody should look at the books of that museum and dusty rogers production company. what a complete jerk.
roy and dale deserved better. much better.
stallion44107 2 years ago
RIP
kylynz 2 years ago
Greed on the part od their son Dusty imo is what took the museum to Branson, Mo
Nothing but greed! Roy and Dale are buried in high desert and their posessions should have remained here as well.
Greed thats all I can say!!
getkicksonrte66 2 years ago
I truely do agree with you 100%!
We were fortunate enough to visit this museum in June 2002. I had a great peaceful feeling of walking the halls & rooms that Dale & Roy themselves use to walk down! Towards the end of our visit, We sadly learned that the museum was moving to Branson! That realy bummed me out to hear that! I don't realy think that I'll ever visit the museum in Branson which is much closer to our location! I'd rather make the trip to Apple Valley/ Victorville again anytime!
IntoWisOutdoors 2 years ago
@getkicksonrte66 You may be right, but, we know they can't take it with them. They were very religious. Roy & Dale will tell you they brought nothing in, and will take nothing out.
zipper179 2 years ago
Zipper -- you may not be able to take it with you---however I feel all their wonderful posessions should have remained in the desert they loved and again I reiterate Dusty was/is greedy!!
But gee we have a Roy Rogers Drive at the exact freeway exit where the museum used to be!!
getkicksonrte66 2 years ago
I went to the victorville museum a couple times.I loved it.I hated to hear they moved it.But reading the comments I learned it is in Branson now.I live in Iowa so I guess it is closer now.I will have to take the kids to see it.
oso976 2 years ago
Roy and Dale. We still love and miss them.
friscolobo 2 years ago
Visited the museum in Victorville around 1992. Then in Branson about 3 years ago. Maybe it is my imagination but the one in Victorville seemed larger. We saw the show in Branson and Dusty came out after for pictures. What a wonderful family.
dickintexas 2 years ago
i remember going there all the time, victorville was my hometown and i miss it
Ov3rC10ck3d 2 years ago
you should not miss victorville, happy trails =)
himrchp 2 years ago
I was a kid when my parents took us there. I don't remember a whole lot, but I still get teary eyed when I see Trigger and Buttermilk.
slb928 2 years ago
i remember go there when i was little they gave me free candy...
hp92301inadelanto 2 years ago
I Shook his hand in Madison Square Garden in New York when I was just a joung cowboy.
EdMetzger 2 years ago
There will be another hero like Roy Rogers!!!! I saw him at our Iowa State Fair in 1960 and remember every second of it. God Blessed Us with Roy and Dale . R.I.P.
dmullsr 2 years ago
I live in Victorville, Met Good ol Roy a few times. Dale Evans as well.
WilliamStenner 2 years ago
I loved Roy. I saw him at the Victorville museum in the 80's but he was has a wonderful moment sitting on the tail gate of his pick up talking to a little boy, man to man, so we didn't interupte him. I can't tell you how much it meant to me to see him being so sweet to this boy. I knew right then that Roy is what I grew up thinking him to be.
Not many people notice that Roy was an excellent rider. Trigger was a powerful horse so I am sure Roy had to stay on his toes to ride him.
Tones4me 2 years ago
These people were CLASS personified. We sure need more people like them out there today. I visited this museum a couple years before it left Victorville. So sad to see it go.
oneblackhorse 2 years ago
king of the cowboys??? your damn right.... met him when I was a kid. he stood for something great, and also , lived it.... this world's gone to hell and people just don't care- he did.!!!!!!!
ghostsofhistory 3 years ago 2
@ghostsofhistory I agree. I'm sixty-five, and still a fan.
zipper179 2 years ago
i met roy and dale at the museum and i was 12 i loved it to bad they are both gone victorville forever1
jailsux1984 3 years ago
Visited the museum in '97 and met Roy & Cheryl. What a fine gentlenman. I still have my RR Boot Bank that I got for Christmas in '52. I hope they can bring it all together in Branson and keep it going for a long time.
yarmap1 3 years ago
I remember visiting the museum. I was meybe 5 or so. It was a fantastic experience. We got to meet Roy and take a picture with him. It was magical.
Nelke 3 years ago
That branson museum isn't doing any better then when they were in Victorville. I read in the daily press there in the hole 70 thousand & might lose it
dwstrat7879 3 years ago
I know the Roger family personally because my mom is best friends with Dustys daughter Shawna. I Visited the museum a couple of years ago. They r doin great but not as great as they hoped. Not many older people live in victorville so they moved to branson which is like the old people capital of the country. So theyre doing ok.
AquaBlueNailPoilsh 3 years ago
When Roy and Dale passed away the interest in the museum faded... lets face it. Most people under 50 years old have know idea who they were. Their son Dusty moved the museum to Branson MO. Dusty and his band now appear there and peform tributes to his parents and the museum is doing great.
randguy 3 years ago
I remember me and my cousins comin' up and visitin "Granpa and Granma in the desert" in the summertime{We hated it} and visitin' the museum...Now I reside up in this bitch{fer' the last 12 yearz} and miss the way it used to be.
shadowchucklez 3 years ago
i love the roy rogers museum, it gave victorville a western kinda theme
jailsux1984 3 years ago
Why in the world would they close such a wonderful piece of history?...What was the reason?...I can't believe someone would want to destroy history in favor of a few dollars profit.
Labaron26 3 years ago 2
ROY ROGERS - KING OF THE COWBOYS - always will be .
1Bandit455 3 years ago
Over 60 years ago I began going to Roy and Dale's movies, listening to their music and following their lives with the tragedies and successes. They were wonderful Christian people and I miss them tremendously.
ldFlorida 3 years ago 2
I live two blocks away in Victorville off of Armogosa, and was able to see and visit the museum anytime. Unfortunately "progress" has ripped out this gem and replaced it with a Home Depot mega shopping center. Oh well, I hope the family made a killing off the land.
ivanbunny25 3 years ago
How sad !!!! Roy & Dale were country before it was Cool. They were the founding fathers so to speak of what Country Music is today. Opened a Lot of Doors for other people. A True CLASS Act.
rocketman50 3 years ago
We visited the museum in Victorville around 1992 and then in Branson about 2 1/2 years ago. It doesn't seem to have as much in Branson. We did get to meet Roy, Jr. and my wife was thrilled to have her picture taken with him. Their show was one of the best in Branson.
dickintexas 3 years ago
Great video. I grew up in the Scioto County, Ohio where Roy Rogers lived as a boy. In the 1950s Roy Rogers was my hero and his movies were very popular. I remember two of the three movie theaters in Portsmouth showing Roy Rogers movies and the kids lined up around the corner at both theaters on Saturday morning waiting to get in. Both theaters were full. Great clean movies and they were good times for us. I miss those days and Roy and Dale. Happy Trails!
gls9876 3 years ago
Roy Rogers was my great uncle by blood. They wrecked up my uncles museum and turned it into a parking lot. fuck!
TheComaKid 3 years ago 2
Thanks for the video. Roy and Dale were definately people who gave back to the public. They helped start the "Happy Trails Children's Foundation" and supported the Cooper Home for abused children. They visited children in hospitals, attended hundreds of fundraisers, and the list goes on. I enjoyed visiting the museum a couple of times. I hope to visit it again in MO.
skeeterdugan 3 years ago 2
I miss that museum. I can't believe it's a car lot now. :(
mutatedorganism 3 years ago 3
I kept thinking I was crazy when I'd look for it off the freeway and couldn't find it.
bistaboy 3 years ago
Sad Dusty had to move though especially from the area his mum and dad loved but glad all's going well in Branson.
ulsterstan 4 years ago
Wonderful!!!
Such a great inspiration!!!
If ever you go to Branson, Missouri check out the Roy Rogers museum there. I think his son takes care of it now....really great!!!
arh2168 4 years ago 2
OMG!!!!!!you saw Trigger!!!lucky *pouts* =( but im glad for you, you must have been thriled
greenpony78 4 years ago
He was my hero while growing up. Then I met him at his museum in the late 70's and he became even more of a hero. To shake the hand of a childhood hero is awesome and will never be forgotten.
sky99ler 4 years ago
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO:-))I had a major crush on Roy Rogers when I was 13yrs old.We only had one TV in those days.Roy's Show was on the same time as Wrestling which was my mothers favorite.She would not let me watch the Roy Rogers show...so I went down the Alleys to check to see who had the Show on TV. I found a House,so I watched it through the Window. Wouldn't be able to do this now adays. Roy was awesome...G
shelbijack 4 years ago 2
I did not know the museum was gone. That is so sad. My parents met Roy there and were privilaged to have a cup of coffee and a long visit with him. They loved him even more after their visit. I feel they played a huge part in shaping my character on the screen as I grew up. They were wonderful roll models. I miss them both very much.
LMT2211 4 years ago 3
Thanks maxine for adding this clip. Roy and Dale were very special people. I visited the museum with my wife many years ago and Roy was there talking with the guests. I know they are both now in the presence of our Lord, for they both had a wonderful testimony...
tbone1143 4 years ago 3
Kinda sad when we see so much getting torn down or moved away to make room for things
that seem more "profitable" than heritage
seems important to our future generations.
frettinfingerbored 4 years ago 3
I was a fan. God Bless Them
catfishclyde99218 4 years ago 6
glad to you to were a fan what a cow boy
abbey2you 4 years ago
I was very lucky to have lived in Victorville and the Apple Valley area when Roy And Dale were alive. The were great people. 1970's
catfishclyde99218 4 years ago
thanks for the reply you were lucky to have lived so near to a fantastic legend
abbey2you 4 years ago
so many memories as a child when we played cow boys indians i was always roy rogers thanks for those memories god bless
abbey2you 4 years ago 3
I remember my father visiting me at George AFB in June of '84 and the two of us going to the museum. We both enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I never saw Roy Rogers while stationed in the High Desert, but lots of other people I knew from the base would see him from time to time, like at the Victor Bowl.
Candlestickpark1966 4 years ago
My dad worked over at the kia for awhile man i remember when it was torn down it was sad i always wanted to go there living in the victorville area well ok then peace otu and view my video and leave comments ok see yah g2g!!!
VinVidProduction 4 years ago
Happy chemtrails.
bulitboy 4 years ago
A Freakin car dealership!Shit!Sons of B-----s.Aho thats makes me sooo mad.There's no respect these days.One of these days soon God's gonna show up and there gonna pay!Ohhh there gonna pay.
1oldschool70 4 years ago 2
Yeah, I couldn't believe it, a car dealership...oh joy..
ginoxl2 4 years ago 2
The museum didn't close, we relocated to Branson MO. Roy Jr does a music tribute there 5 days a week. Trigger's there and all the rest.
gitardog 4 years ago
cont... i even took some kids there a time or two it is sad to think that the america we knew is dying for what?....used car lots to all our cowboy heros roy dale gene lane and all the others may you rest in peace and i hope that you r all riding in the wide open spaces in the wild montana sky may the wind be always at your backs and the trail will always bring you home into the far reaches of hearts and momories and let the cowboy way go on forever........mountainman
montanaflytyer 4 years ago 2
another great loss to america's cowboy heritage roy was one of my all time cowboy heros and now as i ride the rodeos i think sometimes of the great ones roy and gene tex ritter lane frost the list goes on and on and it is w/ tears in my eyes and an ache in my heart that i realize we truly are the last of a dying breed their momory lives on "heres hoping there'll always be a cowboy" !!!! i was lucky enough to have been at the museum several time before it closed
montanaflytyer 4 years ago
Much of what made this area special is disappearing.
Too many suburbanites flocking in and forcing change.
bentstrider 4 years ago 5
Suburbanites? I'm not sure that fits. With all the tagging and gang activities, it feels a bit more "urban" than that. Which is why we moved thirty miles further into the desert.
maxinemovies 4 years ago
I should've added that they're actually "suburbanites"
that are in complete denial of their kids destructive behavior.
Joe Sixpack dad and Soccer Mom think Judy and Jimmy are such little angels...NOT!!!
bentstrider 4 years ago 2
Is it true the Roy Rogers grave has also been removed from Victorville? went to visit it in 2001, beautiful location, I belive that it is also the last resting place of dale Regards from the UK
sailaway26 4 years ago
Good memories!
jrossvideo 4 years ago 2
I moved up to victorville in 2001 and it wasn't until Jan. 2002 I decided to check out the museum. I'm extremely glad that I had the opportunity to visit it. Although it was a shame though when it was starting to sell a lot of it stuff and then it eventually closed.
And you know whats there now, a freakn car dealership, it drives me crazy everytime I see that lot.
PumpkinKing8788 4 years ago 2
I'm convinced those two never threw anything away. When I visited, I donated some Roy Rogers comic books I'd picked up in Portugal. Back in those days, when he appeared to sing on variety shows, he'd wear a gun. These days, nobody would be allowed to wear a gun, but the shows are too vulgar to watch. That's progress?
loneranger85 4 years ago 3
I was also a Apple Valley resident for 30 years and grew up watching his movies and tv shows-I was lucky to meet him many years ago at the victorville swapmeet,He's truly missed as far as I'm concerned
tornadoalley1 4 years ago
Glad we got to see it in Victorville before Roy jr. moved to Branston.Hard to believe it's moved from far from Apple Valley.
ulsterstan 4 years ago 2
My wife and I went to the Roy Rogers museum in Victorville just before it closed. What we saw we didn't believe. He had been an African big game hunter living a very dark side with all sorts of pictures, movies and trophies with stuffed animals in the displays; horses, dogs, and mounted dead things. He had elephant foot umbrella stands, water buffalo ashtrays and crocodile desk sets. The only thing missing was a stuffed Dale Evens and Pat Brady.
SurferJoe46 4 years ago
Those were different times, when hunting for sport was acceptable and even common. Although we might disagree with that now, and I do, I don't judge him by today's standards. I still enjoyed his tv show and singing.
maxinemovies 4 years ago
This video makes me cry. Roy and Dale were two people I truly admired. I wanted to meet them more than anyone. I had a brother that had the same handicap as one of their children
cheekyboboganoosh 4 years ago 3
I had a great admiration for them, too. Thank you for your comment.
maxinemovies 4 years ago
By the time we got to go, both Roy and Dale had taken the Happy Trails to the sky. But you could sense their presence throughout the place. He was my favorite cowboy of all time.
maxinemovies 4 years ago
I lived in Victorville 18 years before I finally visited the museum. It was great! Roy was there but I did not want to bother him so I did not go up to meet him or ask for his autograph. I kinda wish I would have now.
Sulamith 4 years ago
I was so sad when that place moved: I had been taken there every year of my life until 2002. I had just naturally expected it to be there for me to take my own kids to :-(
longhairedbear86 4 years ago 3
Most Excellent!
Centre77 4 years ago 2