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  • The Lone Ranger Creed … Revisited

    The Lone Ranger Creed

    The enduring popularity of the original Lone Ranger is a very interesting phenomenon which must mystify a lot of todays young people who never grew up with it – and probably consider the whole thing to be somewhat Camp in character.
    Yet there are still several (many?) Lone Ranger websites on the internet – well over 60 years after the masked man rode across our black and white TV sets.
    That says that something is special. But what? Why?

    What was it about this guy – and what he stood for – that grabbed so many people … and still does?

    Surely a part of it is embodied in The Lone Ranger Creed.

    The Lone Ranger Theme / William Tell Overture /  Gioachino Rossini

    The Lone Ranger Creed 2

    The Lone Ranger Mask

    The Lone Ranger Creed 1

    The Lone Ranger: “Only you, Tonto, know I’m alive. To the world, I’ll be buried here beside my brother and my friends… forever.”

    Tonto: “You are alone now. Last man. You are lone ranger.”

    The Lone Ranger: “Yes, Tonto, I am… the Lone Ranger.”

    The Lone Ranger pistol bar

    Clayton Moore - The Lone Ranger

    “Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn’t want any other.”

    ~ Clayton Moore

  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto – Silver and Scout

    The Lone Ranger and Tonto / Silver and Scout

    I’m sure most people think that The Lone Ranger came out of the 50’s. Wrong! The Lone Ranger started on radio back before 1933 and ran over 900 shows up until 1956. 23 years! It translated to TV from 1949 to 1957.

    So … my “Thrilling days of yesterday” go back to the early 50’s when I used to listen to The Lone Ranger on the radio. We didn’t always have a TV because Dad feared (rightly) that we wouldn’t read much.  But I loved the radio shows and listened to Hopalong Cassidy, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, The Shadow, Superman – and a few other radio programs as well. Grand stuff.

    The Lone Ranger page 1

    The Lone Ranger Page 2

    The Lone Ranger and Silver

    The Lone Ranger Theme / William Tell Overture by Rossini 

    The Lone Ranger pistol bar

    Tonto and Scout 2

    Silver Bullets

    Silver

    that long ago

4 responses to “The Lone Ranger Creed … Revisited”

  1. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    From boyhood to now, The Lone Ranger and the two men that brought him to life, Fran Striker and Clayton Moore, showed that one man can make a difference. And that is what being an American is, what this country is, and who we should all strive to be.

    1. jcalberta Avatar
      jcalberta

      Hear Hear Rob! Heroes worthy of our attention. Yes, one Man can make a huge difference. They had a Code to do Right.

  2. jcalberta Avatar
    jcalberta

    When the magic the there … it’s hard to deny.

  3. Marilyn Armstrong Avatar
    Marilyn Armstrong

    He was my hero. Really. For many years.

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