At first, I thought these two were taken at the same time. But a quick study of the holsters, and it's obvious that they aren't the same. I don't remember the earliest, double-holster. But with the second one, when you look closely, you can see that it's longer and less ornate than the first. The shirt might be the same, but that's all. The type of holster in the bottom photo was very popular--though I cannot find it on the Internet and draw a blank with the name. Tommy Tipton got the two-gun holster and another kid on the block got the single one like I did that same Christmas morning. We joined one another on the street and could have created our own gang, robbing banks, stopping the stage coach to lift the money chest.
Even my sister remembers the time the TV and movie star Montie Montana and his horse Rex performed at Laural Elementary School. Even without Montie's visit, there were so many Westerns on TV and in the theater, no kid could have escaped the allure. And, of course, with Davy Crockett, several kids had coonskin caps. A couple of kids even got themselves Mohawk haircuts.
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