In a message dated 5/1/2002 11:20:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time, zippywebgenie@hotmail.com writes: > By sometime about 1960 or so, the TV show was gone and it seems like > sometime after that Smokey moved to Apple Valley and had a ballroom type > place up there. Don't know if he's alive or not. > > But, I sure do have memories of his show on tv, in black and white, on our > little 12" screen with the convex sides, inside the "blonde" wood cabinet. > > Jan G. > Since he was a "sons of the Pioneers" veteran, and that was Roy's group, and Roy Rogers (His Brother?) Moved to Apple Valley and opened the Apple Valley Inn, and the Roy Rogers Museum, perhaps the Museum would know? Perhaps his Ballroom was at the Apple Valley Inn. Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) ~~ Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n d i c o t t, S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. Nv.)