First Tribute to Jimmy

Added Sept 5, 2005 - Coming to terms with personal losses

Paladin - The Man in Black On September 14th, 1957, a new western debuted on the CBS television network.
Richard Boone played the man called "Paladin" in
Have Gun Will Travel
http://www.hgwt.com/

Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man. A knight without armor in a savage land.
His fast gun for hire head's the calling wind. A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin.

Paladin, Paladin Where do you roam? Paladin, Paladin, Far, far from home.

Not the final tribute to Jimmy Young,
but we used to watch the show as kids.
I was 8 and he was 10 years old then.
(June 21, 1947 - August 9, 2005)

Anacin was still a pill for pain then.
Gas was twenty some cents a gallon.
Bread and butter pickles were common fare.
Living was easy and death was a stranger.

In those days our guns shot caps.
Small bubbles of powder in paper rolls.
It was fun to be Cowboys or Indians.
Later we graduated into bona fide hunters,
stalking English sparrows like Swamp Fox
armed with lever action BB guns.

Nothing like paint ball guns these days.
Nothing like bullets and powder in shells.
Nothing like this was in our destiny then.

The poet had yet to emerge from those wide eyes.
A lifetime of writing poetry may be lost forever,
leaving only pictures and memories of once was.

Every person tells a story, don't they?

"Hey! Mom, I'm tryingggg to have a party here!"
May they serve you ice cream shakes on the other side.

Jimmy, foreground. Doug and Millie in back.
I think I actually got rid of that shirt already.
It's so difficult to part with things we like.

I need some help with ID'ing these folks, please?
Steven standing, and Carla and Alan at right?
Who's that young girl at very left? Kim?