Tonight's Featured Avatar - 6winchester2

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Tonight's Featured Avatar - 6winchester2

Posted: 9/1/2013 3:58:50 PM EDT

Tonight's featured avatar belongs to the team member, 6winchester2 - a life member and team member of the site since 2004.

Now, tonight's avatar is one that probably only the old folks - the really old folks will recognize. It's from the television show, Have Gun - Will Travel starring Richard Boone as Paladin, a gun for hire. It aired from 1957 to 1963 with a total of 225 episodes made.

The opening scene would feature a close up on Paladin's sixgun along with his trademark knight on the holster usually followed by a brief bit of dialogue about the coming episode.

As a way to make sure you understood his line of work, he carried a unique business card.

Below is a full episode of one of the shows if you're interested in seeing what an old black and white western looks like. If you click to the last 30 seconds of the clip, you can hear a brief portion of the Paladin ballad.

....and now you know.

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Posted: 9/1/2013 4:05:31 PM EDT

[#1]

Howdy folks.

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:06:00 PM EDT

[#2]

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:07:13 PM EDT

[#3]

Just killin it! I like this one, a lot!

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:09:09 PM EDT

[#4]

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:15:19 PM EDT

[#5]

Another great one!

I had a Paladin wallet with one of his business cards as a kid in 50's.

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:16:30 PM EDT

[#6]

I remember the Omega Man avatars

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:16:51 PM EDT

[#7]

Paladin.

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:17:35 PM EDT

[#8]

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Howdy folks.

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Man - you don't waste any time!

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:18:28 PM EDT

[#9]

And I guess that makes me really old.

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:28:10 PM EDT

[#10]

"Paladin" was one of my favorites.

from Wikipedia :

He served on three ships in the Pacific during World War II, seeing combat as an aviation ordnanceman and gunner on TBM Avenger torpedo bombers.

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:31:21 PM EDT

[#11]

From the verbal beginning from some of his serious "Just point an shoot in a room this crowded you are bound to hit someone". Loved that show still try to catch it when I break early in the day.

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:34:38 PM EDT

[#12]

Yes, I am guilty of being a huge fan of HG - WT, even though it is actually before my time.

The fictional character of Paladin was a West Point graduate who had served as a Union Army officer in the Civil War, and became a professional gunfighter and "Knight Errant" in the mid to late
1870s when the series was set. Paladin travelled about the west to oppose evil men and champion the underdog, sometimes working for free when downtrodden people couldn't afford to pay
him.

I own two autographs from Richard Boone, which are displayed in my gun room. On the left, in the distressed wood frame, is him as "Paladin the Gunfighter," and on the right, in the fancy blue frame,
is "Paladin the Society Gentleman" as he was portrayed at the start of most episodes, in the fashionable Hotel Carlton in San Francisco (that's late actor Kam Tong beside him, who played the bellhop
"Hey Boy").

I also own Johnny Western's autograph (the man who wrote "The Ballad of Paladin" and appeared in a 1958 episode of the show), which he personalized to me. Johnny Western was a good friend
of Johnny Cash and did a lot of work with him. Western is still alive and lives in Arizona.

My Colt Defender (which at the moment is sitting right next to me) also pays homage to Richard Boone, with pewter "Chess Knight" grip medallions.

Richard Boone, the son of an attorney, was a direct lineal descendant of frontiersman Daniel Boone. He worked on oil fields and also as a boxer as a young man, and served as a gunner/ordnanceman on Navy
dive bombers in the Pacific in World War II.

He was a helluva man, in the mold of John Wayne.

He left us, too soon, in 1981. RIP, Dick.

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:41:08 PM EDT

[#13]

Watched re-runs as a kid,good show,good avatar.

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:48:53 PM EDT

[#14]

My dad loved that show.

Posted: 9/1/2013 4:49:32 PM EDT

[#15]

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Yes, I am guilty of being a huge fan of HG - WT, even though it is actually before my time.

The fictional character of Paladin was a West Point graduate who had served as a Union Army officer in the Civil War, and became a professional gunfighter and "Knight Errant" in the mid to late
1870s when the series was set. Paladin travelled about the west to oppose evil men and champion the underdog, sometimes working for free when downtrodden people couldn't afford to pay
him.

I own two autographs from Richard Boone, which are displayed in my gun room. On the left, in the distressed wood frame, is him as "Paladin the Gunfighter," and on the right, in the fancy blue frame,
is "Paladin the Society Gentleman" as he was portrayed at the start of most episodes, in the fashionable Hotel Carlton in San Francisco (that's late actor Kam Tong beside him, who played the bellhop
"Hey Boy").

<a href="http://s219.photobucket.com/user/omega62/media/GR1_zpsbd8adf86.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/omega62/GR1_zpsbd8adf86.jpg</a>

I also own Johnny Western's autograph (the man who wrote "The Ballad of Paladin" and appeared in a 1958 episode of the show), which he personalized to me. Johnny Western was a good friend
of Johnny Cash and did a lot of work with him. Western is still alive and lives in Arizona.

My Colt Defender (which at the moment is sitting right next to me) also pays homage to Richard Boone, with pewter "Chess Knight" grip medallions.

<a href="http://s219.photobucket.com/user/omega62/media/PDMP_zps0faea46b.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/omega62/PDMP_zps0faea46b.jpg</a>

Richard Boone, the son of an attorney, was a direct lineal descendant of frontiersman Daniel Boone. He worked on oil fields and also as a boxer as a young man, and served as a gunner/ordnanceman on Navy
dive bombers in the Pacific in World War II.

He was a helluva man, in the mold of John Wayne.

He left us, too soon, in 1981. RIP, Dick.

<a href="http://s219.photobucket.com/user/omega62/media/Paladin.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/omega62/Paladin.jpg</a>

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That's pretty cool!

For my money, the one scene that always comes to mind when I think of Richard Boone is this scene from Big Jake:

He was an excellent bad guy.