In addition to coonskin caps, there was pretty much Davy Crockett everything. It was as if the Harry Potter craze and the Star Wars craze were combined.
T-shirts, books, toy guns, etc.
I even saw some Davy Crockett bubble gum.
RIP.
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Fess Parker, TV Frontiersman, Dies
A nation doffs its coonskin caps to Fess Parker, who starred on the TV series "Davy Crockett" and "Daniel Boone" in the 1950s and 1960s and who died today at his home in the Santa Ynez Valley, calif., according to his managers. He was 85.
Mr. Parker, a native Texas, left show business for a career in business and real estate in the 1970s. He opened mobile home parks and a luxury hotel in California and started Fess Parker Winery.
Fess Parker changed my life. My older brother was born in 1950. When my parents named him Dave only one nurse in the hospital said "Wasn't there some famous guy with that name?" ( Did I mention that my last name is Crockett ?) He was about 5 when all the Davy Crockett mania was starting. When his picture appeared in a local newspaper in full coonskin attire it was spotted by Trishia Nixon, daughter of the then vice-president. She had her father send him a letter asking for the autograph of the "real" Davy Crockett, on official white House stationary. His head started swelling then and has never quite stopped. That name got him dates with the best looking girls, got him out of speeding tickets, the best tables at restaruants and many more perks than I can count. So I have spent my whole life in his shadow. To this day few people know my real name, I am just Davy Crockett's little brother.
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