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  Roy Rogers Family Restaurants
Roy Rogers Family Restaurants is a chain of American fast-food family restaurants, numbering over 800 at its peak, named for cowboy actor Roy Rogers.
The typical Roy Rogers served the food cafeteria-style.
Some of the restaurants were independently owned and still survive, particularly in Maryland and Virginia, as well as some highway rest stops in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and other locations along the eastern coast of the USA.
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  Roy Rogers Family Restaurants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Rogers Family Restaurants is a chain of U. fast-food family restaurants, numbering over 800 at its peak, named for cowboy actor Roy Rogers.
Hardee's finally sold the remaining Roy Rogers locations to McDonald's, leaving just 13 Roy Rogers franchisees in existence, with approximately two dozen free-standing locations, in addition to locations owned by HMS Host that were located inside travel plazas along highways in the Northeast.
Some of the restaurants were independently owned and still survive, particularly in western Maryland and Northern Virginia, as well as some highway service plazas in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and other locations along the East Coast of the United States.
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 Roy Rogers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rogers was born to Andrew ("Andy") and Mattie (Womack) Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his family lived in a tenement building on 2nd Street.
Roy and Dale were inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1976 and Roy was inducted again as a member of the Sons of the Pioneers in 1995.
Roy was also twice elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, first as a member of The Sons of the Pioneers in 1980 and as a soloist in 1988.
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 Roy Rogers
Roy and Dale's famous theme song, which Dale wrote and they sang as a duet to sign off their television show, was "Happy trails to you, Until we meet again....
Roy and Dale were inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1976 and Roy was inducted again as a member of the Sons of the Pioneers in 1995.
Roy was also twice elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, first as a member of The Sons of the Pioneers in 1980 and as a soloist in 1988.
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 Adams County Reads One Book - Exhibits - Happy Trails - About Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers was born Leonard Slye (he would change his name years later when he began acting) on November 5, 1911.
This came about as a result of Roy's runaway success in the movie industry and in 1941 he was billed as the "King of the Cowboys" for his 1943 film where he played himself.
Roy and Dale would work together on a television show that spawned a children's club, a classic song, and a mountain of Roy Rogers merchandise.
www.gettysburg.edu /library/news/special_events/onebook/2006/exhibits/rogers/index.html   (1069 words)

  
 Roy Rogers Biography
Roy Rogers was everyone's image of what a cowboy should be, from his white Stetson with its silver hatband to his hand-tooled boots.
It was in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 5, 1911, that Leonard Slye (later to be known as Roy Rogers) was born to Mattie and Andy Slye.
By the time Roy had completed his second year of high school, it was clear that their farm would never support the family, so he made the difficult decision to drop out of school and take a job with his father at the shoe factory in Cincinnati.
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 Roy Rogers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Roy Rogers was born Leonard Slye in 1911 in Cincinnati in a building that stood near where second base of Riverfront Stadium is now located.
Roy Rogers' first commercial success was with the Sons of the Pioneers, but he was an even bigger pioneer in marketing, a champion merchandise wrangler.
Rogers had a sweet voice, and the best record he ever made was "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," which he did with the Sons of the Pioneers in 1934.
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 Roy Rogers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Roy Rogers was born Leonard Slye in 1911 in Cincinnati in a building that stood near where second base of Riverfront Stadium is now located.
Roy Rogers' first commercial success was with the Sons of the Pioneers, but he was an even bigger pioneer in marketing, a champion merchandise wrangler.
Rogers had a sweet voice, and the best record he ever made was "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," which he did with the Sons of the Pioneers in 1934.
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 Learn more about Fast-food restaurant in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A fast-food restaurant is a restaurant characterized by food which is supplied quickly after ordering (and which may or may not be eaten quickly as well), and by minimal service.
Although fast-food restaurants are often seen as a mark of modern technological culture, they are probably as old as cities themselves, with the style varying from culture to culture.
In the United Kingdom, while fast-food restaurant chains are now common, the British tradition of take-away foods such as fish and chips and steak and kidney pie with mash (mashed potato) remain popular.
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 Roy Rogers Restaurant News Story 20
The new restaurant is the first the Plamondons have built since 1993 and one of the few new Roy Rogers restaurants anywhere in years.
Now there are only 42 Roy Rogers restaurants in Maryland and 11 in Virginia, but none in Washington D.C., according to a list from Hardee's, which retained the brand and continues to franchise it.
For more than a decade, he took his grandson and his wife religiously once a week to a Roy Rogers in Silver Spring, Md., at University Boulevard near their house, but when it went out of business, he rarely went to any other restaurant in the chain.
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 Roy Lanham
Such is the case for Roy Lanham, a jazz aficionado and guitarist from the Forties who is best known for his work with Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers.
Roy always considered himself a jazz player and is often compared stylistically to Django Reinhardt, but in order to sustain a living as a musician spent most of his life on tour with various bands playing pop standards and western style music reminiscent of Bob Wills' western swing.
Roy saw his creative peak with his own band The Whipperwhills during the 1940s and unbelievably his work with this amazing band was never released until two years ago when the Bloodshot label made the recordings available on Hard Life Blues.
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 Roy Rogers Tribute
In films and on TV, Roy Rogers' style of entertainment followed his theme song, "Happy Trails." He played the good guy who would shoot the gun out of the villain's hand, rather than shooting and wounding the villain.
Rogers' rodeo grossed $425,000 on a tour of state fairs, and he estimated it cost $30,000 in 1960 just to answer his fan mail.
Rogers is survived by Evans; sons Roy Rogers Jr.
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 Roy Rogers - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
The Roy Rogers Show, starring Rogers and Evans and co-starring Roy's Pioneers replacement, Pat Brady, went on the air on NBC in December of 1951, beginning a seven-year network run that introduced his work to yet another generation of fans.
Even Rogers' sessions on his own recordings with the Sons of the Pioneers, however, little resembled his earlier work as a member of the Pioneers, for his was now the lead voice.
Rogers continued to record into the 1970s, and he scored a hit in 1972 with "Candy Kisses." He and Dale continued making personal appearances, often in the context of religious broadcasts and gatherings, as well as television broadcasts, into the early '90s.
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 Roy Rogers trivia and story
Roy Rogers was born Leonard Slye on November 5, 1911, in Ohio.
Roy Rogers was second only to Walt Disney in souvenir sales and licensing, including everything from cap pistols to lunch boxes.
Roy and Dale were together for 51 years, a great testimony to how, even in Hollywood, two people can stay married and happy at the same time.
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 Roy Rogers Biography (Actor/Country Singer) — Infoplease.com
Roy Rogers was called the "King of the Cowboys" during his long career as a folksy singing hero of movies and TV.
Rogers lent his name to the Marriott Corporation for the successful Roy Rogers chain of fast food restaurants; the first outlet opened in 1968.
Roy Rogers - Roy Rogers (Leonard Frank Sly) actor, singer Born: 11/5/1911 Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio Actor and...
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 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Simpson is found in civil court to be liable for the death of Ron Goldman and for the battery of Nicole Brown Simpson.
Roger Nicholas Angleton admits to the crime in the suicide note.
May 16 - US President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and their families, 25 years after the 40 year "study" was exposed by reporter Jean Heller.
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 Roy Rogers Family Restaurants Franchise Information
Roy Rogers Family Restaurants is a chain of U.S. fast-food family restaurants, numbering over 800 at its peak, named for cowboy actor Roy Rogers.
Hardee's finally sold the remaining Roy Rogers locations to McDonald's, leaving just 13 Roy Rogers franchisees in existence, with approximately two dozen free-standing locations, in addition to locations owned by HMSHost that were located inside travel plazas along highways in the Northeast.
Some of the restaurants were independently owned and still survive, particularly in western Maryland and Northern Virginia, as well as some highway service plazas in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and other locations along the East Coast of the United States.
www.franchising.com /information/royrogers   (655 words)

  
 sociology - Roy Rogers Family Restaurants
In 1990 Marriott sold the chain to Hardee's, which greatly scaled down operations and converted many of them into Hardee's restaurants and later sold many of the remaining restaurants to McDonalds, Wendy's and Boston Chicken.
Some of the restaurants were independently owned and still survive, particularly in Maryland and Virginia, as well as some highway service plazas in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and other locations along the eastern coast of the USA.
In recent years, the Roy Rogers restaurants have been revived and an initiative is underway to bring more back.
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 Roy Rogers et al
Roy Rogers was born, Leonard Franklin Slye on November 5, 1911; Cincinnati, Ohio.
The film was a hit and it put Roy Rogers (he had changed his name for the film) onto the road to stardom, and was going to displace Gene Autry as the favourite cowboy star at Republic Studios.
Roy had one of those bits of luck which make the difference in 1938 when he bought a horse for $2,500, famously it had 1-2-3-4 legs and was his friend.
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 KIROTV.com - MLB - Rogers Rocked And Booed At All-Star Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Kenny Rogers was booed when he entered Tuesday night's All-Star Game, and soon after the Texas lefthander was being knocked around by National League hitters.
Unfortunately for Rogers and Major League Baseball, him being at the contest took away a bit from the Mid-Summer Classic and the attention that Baltimore's Miguel Tejada, the MVP of the contest, deserved.
Rogers is 10-4 with a 2.54 ERA in 17 starts this season.
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 K-Royal Motel: Pool
The Copeland family is very pleased to announce that Johnny & Sophia Copeland will now be your hosts at the K-Royal.
Roy Rogers was a singing cowboy who yodeled his way to fame when he began making Western films for Republic Pictures in 1937.
The museum’s board and the Rogers family believe Branson, the vacation destination for 8.2 million visitors last year, espouses a family-friendly theme that provides an ideal environment in which to preserve and continue the Rogers legacy.
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 Roy Rogers - The Huffington Post
If you're a fan of Autry, Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers, you know that no real cowboy would ride off into the sunset without a burst of yodeling.
There are the traditional Shirley Temple and Roy Rogers, but Angelo notes that any fancy frozen beach drink with alcohol can be just as festive looking and refreshing with the...
Six new breeds of fake puppies and kittens have been released to fill the niche for people who love animals as long as they are not...
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 CNN - Roy Rogers, 'King of the Cowboys,' dead at 86 - July 6, 1998
Roy Rogers, 'King of the Cowboys,' dead at 86
Web posted on: Monday, July 06, 1998 11:19:56 AM VICTORVILLE, California (CNN) -- Roy Rogers, the King of the Cowboys who appeared in more than 100 films and rode atop his trusty horse named Trigger in most of them, singing his theme song "Happy Trails," died Monday morning at the age of 86.
The singing television and movie star passed away at his Apple Valley home after suffering from congestive heart failure, a statement from his publicist said.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9807/06/roy.rogers.cnn   (925 words)

  
 Fast-food restaurant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The food in these restaurants is commonly cooked in bulk in advance and kept or reheated to order.
Although fast-food restaurants are often seen as mark of modern technological culture they are as old as cities themselves with the varying from culture to culture.
In the United Kingdom while fast-food restaurant chains are now the British tradition of take-away foods such fish and chips and steak and kidney pie with (mashed potato) remain popular.
www.freeglossary.com /Fast-food_restaurant   (1030 words)

  
 Restaurants
My list of restaurants is not in order with regard to preference, but relates instead to location on island.
Roy and Mandy Bossons have an outstanding restaurant luring the expat crowd with excellent food, Friday’s ‘Happy Hour’, and Sunday’s ‘roast beef and Yorkshire pudding’ … and their prices are reasonable.
The best compliment to Roy is that other restaurants, trying to capture more business, copy Roy’s menu and style which can not happen as Roy and Mandy are one of a kind.
www.lambertventures.com /restaura.htm   (1322 words)

  
 The History of Roys in Siegfried and Roy
Rogers was a fearless man with a calm demeanor (which kept the big cats in line), and he always looked good in a sweater.
Rogers left the show due to artistic differences, Siegfried wanted to find someone whose name also began with R, to avoid the high cost of re-monogramming all of the towels.
A little-known fact: Roy Clark tried to take the animals with him to "Hee-Haw", but after a white Bengal relieved itself in Minnie Pearl's hat, it was returned to Siegfried (the tiger, not the hat).
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 A burger and a shake-up - Washington Business Journal:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Once-mighty restaurant chain Roy Rogers Restaurants, born decades ago out of Bethesda-based Marriott International and since on the decline, has grand plans to ride again.
A total relaunch of the fast-food chain is planned by Plamondon Enterprises, which owns 15 restaurants and -- after years of maneuvering -- has purchased the trademark and franchise system for Roy Rogers Restaurants.
With 22 Roy Rogers franchises in motorways and travel plazas along the East Coast, HMS Host, a multibillion-dollar company that was formerly Host Marriott Services, already has signed a new long-term franchise agreement with Plamondon that specifies 5 percent royalties and up to 2 percent in marketing fees.
www.bizjournals.com /washington/stories/2003/11/17/story1.html   (788 words)

  
 roy rodgers cont
Roy was a relative unknown until one day in 1937 he heard of a casting call at Republic Studios
In the movie Roy is elected to congress with a crusade of exposing the blight of the "dust bowl," a fitting roll for the man who left his family farm in Ohio1929 taking only his $20 guitar in an attempt to make a living during those though times.
In 1951 Rogers and wife Dale starred in "The Roy Roger Show" a half-hour TV show that shaped the dreams of children
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