If you were a local Mass.native it was a show that lasted for so many years it did make every young kids Saturday & Sunday Mornings alike.Starting off as 3 hours on each of those days and on the weekends and sadly even when the original Boomtown on WBZ-TV 4 still had kids waiting on back up for 2 years it had to be canceled after 18 years to make way for network television.But the "Howdy there folks we're glad to meet you" theme song is/was very catchy as well as enjoyable.Along with the Hoofbeats song of which was sung by Rex with the footage of which would bridge the gap from the bunkhouse to Where he'd meet the kids.
The Latter day version of Boomtown seen on WXNE-Ch.25 however didn't have the same flare as a prerecorded show that the original WBZ-TV 4 version did as a live TV-Show.
Pick up a copy of both versions of Rex Trailer's Boomtown:The Movie a.k.a. Rex Trailer's Gold DVD then you'll not only see me in it but get a real feel for the Nostalgia too.Also pick up a copy of the book of Rex Trailer:The Boomtown Years.
Truthfully,Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a."Ste"of Framingham,Ma.USA. P.S.
When I got to see Rex on June 21,1998 for the first time in 21 Years since The Ca.Trip which I went on with him from February 19-26 in 1977.I mentioned this to him there at The Joe Val Blue Grass Festival and he said to me "Yes I thought you looked familiar."Upon asking to sign my Rex Trailer:The Boomtown Years Book he asked after seeing my Check how I wanted him to sign it to Stephen or Steve? Then I said to him "Ste,S-t- e and how my older brother Kevin came up with it being a year older than me and unable to say the whole thing at the time and of which is why I couldn't be brought up to prefer Stephen."