HAPPY TRAILS LEAD OUT OF THE GOLDEN STATE :

Roy Rogers Museum leaving California for Missouri (AP, July 15, 2002)

The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum is bidding farewell to California, hoping it will be happier trails in this Midwestern city known for its dozens of music theaters.

The museum, featuring cowboy and Western heritage exhibits, will open next spring in Branson, in the heart of the Ozarks, city officials announced Monday. [...]

"Although this landmark has been located in Victorville for 26 years, attendance has continued to decline since the deaths of its founders, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans," Rogers' son, Roy "Dusty" Rogers Jr., said Monday.

Mike Daley sends this further evidence of the decline of the once great state of California. I suppose it's too much to wish for that they relocate the Ronald Reagan Library to New Hampshire. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 16, 2002 9:59 PM