In 1943, Republic Studios dubbed Roy Rogers as “King of the Cowboys,” doing so as part of the promotion for its film of the same name in which he was then starring. It was pretty heady stuff for the man born Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Nov. 5, 1911. His parents, Andy andContinue reading “Singing cowboy Roy Rogers had brief but significant ties to Lawndale early in his career”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
