Roy Rogers and Dale Evans at the 1968 Lorain County Fair

Back at the end of April, I posted an article announcing that Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were to be featured performers at the 1968 edition of the Lorain County Fair.

Since performers sometimes have to cancel an engagement due to an illness or booking conflict, I wondered if Roy and Dale did show up. But indeed they did perform, and were a rip-roaring success.

Pat Brady

Read all about it in the article below, which appeared in the Lorain Journal on Saturday, August 24, 1968. In it, Roy and Dale give a hilarious interview to Journal Staff Writer Bill Wilgren. I was surprised to read that not only did the Sons of the Pioneers (Roy’s singing group) appear, but so did Pat Brady – Roy’s comic sidekick. (Hey, I wonder if he was kin-folk?)

The article makes me wish that there were still stars around like Roy and Dale, people with old-fashioned principles and values that kids could look up to.

But their era was a simpler, more innocent time.