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[> [> [> Re: Bonanza Friends -- Robyn Campbell-Morrow, 22:25:54 06/07/12 Thu [1]

I guess I was 9 or 10 when we all started racing. It lasted till I was a senior in high school. That was in 1968. David and his brother Dirk and their sisters Debbie and Dana were always with us at the races. Sometimes Dan would get a big bus and park it on the best turn at Riverside Raceway where we all hung out and had so much fun. He would pile all us kids in his big Chevy station wagon and take us for a lap around the racetrack. We lived in Burbank so Dan would come over after filming still in his Bonanza makeup and clothes. Lee Marvin and Keenen Wynn would be at our house too. My folks had big parties sometimes and everyone was there drinking and having a blast. The 60's were so fun back then. My family moved our boat business to Lake Havasu City in 1971 and Dan kept one of his Campbell Boats docked there. We all used to get together and go boating with him when he came to visit. After Dan passed away nothing was the same. It was so sudden and he was so young. A very sad time. I never heard from his kids again after that. I have seen Dirk in a few movies. I'm sure they all miss those fun times too. I have always hoped they were all doing well and are happy. I think of them often.

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[> [> [> [> Re: Bonanza Friends -- Robyn Campbell-Morrow, 22:40:03 06/07/12 Thu [1]

This is really cool. I typed Dan Blocker in the Yahoo search engine and then went to "Image" results. Tons of photos of Dan there but what was so cool was a photo of my Dad with Dan and our race car was there too. What a nice surprise!

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[> [> [> [> Re: Bonanza Friends -- Rick, 23:18:45 06/07/12 Thu [1]

Dan's driver was Bob Harris and he was a stuntman as well. I have his contacts, but haven't had time over the years. I hope he's well. That was a long time ago. I'm sure the good folks here appreciate you sharing with them, as I did with my site, which they love so much. Bonanza was Dan Blocker's show. Mike Landon said that and he was right. They were best friends. Mike never got over his death.



Rick

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: Bonanza Friends -- Robyn Campbell-Morrow, 01:06:27 06/08/12 Fri [1]

I like it here and you are all very nice. I have never had a place to share my stories so I'm glad I found you. Yes Bob was our driver for quite a long time. I have so many photos of him driving and photos of him partying down with my folks. It was fun watching all of them being so crazy with champagne fountains flowing and strange orange paper wrapped cigarettes (teehee) being passed around. They knew how to have fun. I remember Keenen Wynn (misspelled I'm sure) riding me around our big house on his shoulders and bumping my head on the door jam. I thought to myself put me down now please before you knock me out! I promptly went to my room and went to bed. At another party I remember Pernell was in our kitchen which was connected to a big dinning room and he was getting ready to pop a bottle of champagne. We had a long bar with bar stools with over head lighting that divided the kitchen from the dinning room. Well Pernell was standing in the kitchen with the bottle on the bar and popped that sucker and broke out all of the overhead lights above the bar. My mom screamed from the crashing glass noise and money started flying out of all the guys pockets from every direction. It was pretty funny to watch since I saw the whole thing coming. ; )

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Bonanza Friends -- adamseve, 06:51:40 06/08/12 Fri [1]

Those corks can be dangerous for sure. Years ago my cousin's boyfriend popped a cork which hit him in the eye. He spent prom night in the er-no serious damage thank goodness. She went to the prom with her Dad!! A night everyone remembers and still talks about. adamseve

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Bonanza Friends -- Kim, 21:20:19 06/10/12 Sun [1]

Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories Robyn. I loved them all. If you can think of more, please post them.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Bonanza Friends -- Mary from NYC, 21:22:48 06/15/12 Fri [1]

This is very sweet to read. I just stumbled on this forum. I grew up with the show - I had to sneak downstairs to watch it from the stairs as it was on so late! But my dad won a color TV for a sales contest, and we had one of the first color sets in town - it lasted as long as Bonanza did! So we had to watch the shows in color. I was in love with Adam, and I was really upset when Pernell Roberts left the series. Much later, I understood his side better. "Bonanza" was from a different time. The first season seems to have been mostly based on not very good histories of Virginia City, notably the David Lyman books, and it wasn't until the second season that the show seemed to settle down. But the fifth season was the highest rated season, I think, and what we all understand when we say "Bonanza." And as a Guy Williams fan, that season is doubly wonderful for me, but I wonder if I'll ever see them on DVD. The only way to get season 5, I think, is to buy all the seasons from unofficial vendors. I'd rather have the official releases. Sigh! The series really didn't have anything to do with Virginia City's history in the end, or history at all, except Hollywood's history, but the characters were so very fine and the production values extraordinary. Just the music - like David Rose using Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream music as inspiration for "Hoss and the Leprechauns." Care was taken.

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[> [> [> [> Re: Bonanza Friends -- adamseve, 07:03:38 06/08/12 Fri [1]

In the mid 80's when the Cleveland Browns were contenders several of them were our neighbors--Bernie Kosar, Webster Slaughter, Michael Dean Perry and a few more. My sons were in high school so it was great fun for them. One time Webster had a big party which we were not invited to. There were several hundred thousands of doloars of cars parked in his drive. My husband decided to trim the grass and got grass all over their cars. He rushed in the house and yelled, "check the weather!! We need a big wind coming". Of course it was no problem but a funny memory. Everyone has moved on but those were magical years for us. adamseve

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