Foreman Scotty's Kids

Bobby Jones Remembers McDonalds Promo Pics

Greetings Lisa.

At 7 or 8 I was on the show too, but that's not the story I have.

I was 17 and your father walked into a "Radio Shack" I was employed at part time at N.May Ave and Hefner when I was in school.As he walked in I still was not quite sure but as soon as he took off his sunglasses I knew. As, soon as he said hello, I just froze. He stood there for a second and I remember him asking "Are you OK son?"

Any how, I recovered soon transacted our business, and got to talking. He responded to all my questions and was quite graceful about it.This happened in 1974 or so.He seemed pleased that I remember him as an M.C.at the car races at Taft stadium(not the fairgrounds) I'm sure I am one of thousands, but I will never forget him.

All these folks talk about the "golden"horseshoe and the "Zoo" key as well as the token from the fair. In all the things I have seen regarding these promo items, nobody has mentioned the "Promo pics from McDonald's. I so wish I still had mine! That became available when I was 8 years old..I think I remember the last show too.

I seem to remember them dismantling the set on camera at the end of the show. I don't know that I understood the implications at the time. I hope you see fit to post this.This is mostly a personal story of a little later time.

Bobby Jones

MWC,OK.

"Gallery" on OETA Television Pioneers

I just saw a special on early tv in Oklahoma on OETA. There was footage of Foreman Scotty and 3D Danny. You might check OETA for footage.

C. Berry

Alice Williams + Aluminum Foil = Bazark and a Craving for Dennis Donuts

And you can bet if I'd ever been fortunate enough to be on The Foreman Scotty Show I would most CERTAINLY display the Golden Horseshoe in a place of honor!

Stillwater kids only dreamed of traveling to the far and distant OKC to be on the show.

I did get in trouble once for using all the aluminum foil to make myself a Bazark costume...and now I suddenly have a craving for Dennis Donuts.

Alice Williams

Lynda Toney Bahr's "Doggie Ears"

I got to be on the foreman scotty show in 1967 or 8 or 9 or so...It was my birthday and I got to sit on the horse with about 4 other kids. He flipped my doggy ears, which I wore just so he would!

Lynda Toney Bahr

Christie Myers Golden Horseshoe sits on her desk to This Day

A friend of mine at work keeps sending me postings of other Foreman Scotty kids.  It’s time for me to own up to my own Foreman Scotty experience.

I was in the second grade when my Brownie Troop all went to the Foreman Scotty show.  I think every kid who ever went to the show was fascinated by the actual sets and seeing all of the characters in person. My memory is most clear of the time when the magic lasso was moved around on each child’s face.  Amazingly, it landed on mine.  To this day, my Golden Horseshoe sits on my desk.  It’s a fond memory of days gone by.

Thanks for foremanscottyskids.com.  It’s fun to read and share stories.

 
Christie Myers
Director of Business Development
Oklahoma Department of Commerce
900 N. Stiles Ave.

Oklahoma City, OK 73104-3234

Dorean Blackketter's Pony Tail Holder

I grew up in Oklahoma City and was on Foreman Scotty twice.

I lived in the same neighborhood and went to school with Kimi Hurst- Cannonball's daughter (although she was a year ahead of me in school). The second time I was on the show, it was my birthday and I got to sit on Woody the Horse.

I didn't win the Golden Horseshoe, but I was given a leather hair clasp to go around my pony tail - which I still have. I was a faithful viewer of Foreman Scotty and have many great memories of the show. I would really like to find some more archived pictures of the show to see if I could find myself in them.

Dorean Blackketter

Dorean ~ Thank you so much for writing! I'll tell you a story about your pony tail holder...when I was a kiddo I watched my dad make those in our heated garage. Leather, a pair of dyke cutters, a soldering iron, and a sack of shiny pony nails.Dad spent hours out there creating these pony tail holders. I used to sit on a rug and hand him what he needed next. Dorean, he loved creating things with his hands. If he had any idea so many kiddos held on to the things he made (including the golden horseshoes) his heart would be singing as I'm sure it it!You're the first person who's mentioned this item at all, and it touches my heart deeply. Bless you sweetheart. I'm sorry there is no footage left, but '10 should be an exciting year for the Foreman Scottys Children's Foundation...who knows what we'll conjure up! Wait and see... 
Best Wishes,

Lisa A Powell                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Donna Dennis..."The Luckiest Kid Around"

I am a Foreman Scotty kid.

I was on the show when I was 4 years old, my sister won the lucky penny I was so excited for her, then all of the sudden I became the big winner of the golden horseshoe. I felt like I was truly the luckiest kid around. I still have the horseshoe today. Those are some really fun memories.

Donna Dennis
Houston, Texas

Clayton Abernathy's Den Mother

I too was one of the kids that got the opportunity to be on the show! My Mom was our den mother and our pack went to the show! I was quite an experience at the time to see all of these people you watched on TV right there! WOW Really impressed us all here we were on a TV show!

Thank you for putting this site up for us to remember some good times in our lives!

 Clayton F. Abernathy, M.Ed.,CUSA
American Eagle Safety Services LLC

S. Haley "That Little Girl on the Front Row"

Hi,

Yep, I was a Foreman Scotty kid.  My genuine Golden Horseshoe hangs inside one of the doors in my potting shed.

In 1955 (or maybe 1956), my older brother's Cub Scout group were guests on Foreman Scotty's show.  My mom was den mom, and I was allowed to go with the Scouts.  I was the only girl on the show that day and sat in the front row.  I remember hearing the camera man say, "that little girl in the front row."   I couldn't imagine how they knew I'd get the Golden Horseshoe since we couldn't see the lasso circling our faces as we sat in the corral.  It was my first lesson that all isn't necessarily what it seems to be when we watch television!

A year or so later, when I was 7 years old, we moved away from Oklahoma City.  Foreman Scotty stayed behind, and we never saw the show again.  Even so, I well remember sitting cross-legged in the floor with my older brother waiting to see the lasso scroll across the screen and land on a lucky kid's face.  Simple times, easy memories.

Thanks for the site.  I've often wondered if anyone else remembers Foreman Scotty.  Best wishes to you and Scotty's grandson!

S. Haley

The Measles and Rhonda Gray (sweet story)

Hi Lisa,
 

Sure, you can share my story.

I loved Forman Scotty! I loved coming home after school and watching his show!

When I was seven, my Brownie troop from Newcastle School was scheduled to be a part of the audience. You can imagine how excited I was! Well, I caught the measles a day or two before the show, and couldn't make it. I ended up watching the show from my sofa, crying, seeing all my friends on the TV and so upset I didn't meet Foreman Scotty in person! Oh well, things happen.

 
This is a cool website and a cool trip down Memory Lane!
 
Warmest Regards,
 
Rhonda Gray
 

Patrick Titterington's Bush Hat

I still remember the day I got to go to the ranch and sit on Woody as it was my birthday.

My only dark spot that day was the fact I knew my father wouldn't see me as he was in Viet Nam. I did sport the bush hat he had sent me though, even if it wasn't quite a cowboy hat. The hat is long gone as is my father, but the memory remains.

My only dark spot that day was the fact I knew my father wouldn't see me as he was in Viet Nam. I did sport the bush hat he had sent me though, even if it wasn't quite a cowboy hat. The hat is long gone as is my father, but the memory remains.

Mike Martin's "Gift"

I want to tell this story while it's fresh in my mind. It would've happened sooner than this, but I had an auto accident and am still recovering.

Way back when I first started this site I received an email from a gentleman whom had met my father as a child, then later as an adult tracked him down and called him. They chatted about the show, guns, knives, memories and such.

A promise was made that as soon as Mike made it down from Nebraska, they'd get together. It wasn't long after, Dad passed away.

I've never "Promoted" this site, never listed it with search engines, I'm not even sure if it has a feed other than feedburner. If people find it they find it by searching for "Foreman Scotty" on whatever SE they use.

In the beginning, say five years ago, I did the whole Face book thing and found it wanting...still too new a social networking site. This summer I gave it a whirl again.

Lo and behold, there pops up Mike from Nebraska as a friend request.

We chatted on and off. Mike grew up part of his childhood in the same neighborhood my parents lived in when I was born. Like so many "Foreman Scotty's Kids" now grown, he'd held onto his golden horseshoe, a pocket knife Dad had given to him at the State Fair one year in lieu of being allowed to hold his gun. (my how times have changed)...

...but most precious of all were the memories of the childhood summer evenings spent reenacting the days, or weeks episodes with friends. Arguing over whom was to be which character, this and that.

Being a single parent doesn't come easy. It's a job one never gets paid for, but works their tail off in spite of. Ones entire existence revolves around what's best for your child or children. You do it through physical pain, emotional upheavals, financial downfalls, you do it with unmitigated love and selfless abandon.

My auto accident happened the week of my son's birthday. A series of unexpected financial demands placed me in the worst position a mother can be in facing a child's birthday.

Dear friends put together a party, but all my boy asked for were donations to our local humane society or animal rescue of the guests choice. That's it...that's what an eleven year old kiddo asked for on his invitations. When I was eleven, I'd have had a list two pages long...on legal pad.

I had mentioned to Mike in passing what ONE item it was my son had asked me for, but I had to promise my boy I'd make it up to him once I was back on my feet again. (Like I said, single parenting doesn't pay worth a darn monetarily speaking.)

Long story short, the day after my sons Birthday a package arrives with, not only the item, but the tiny pocket knife my Dad gave Mike so many years ago. Of course I'm crying, my son is jumping up and down unable to figure out:

One: Why mom was crying?

and Two: Where this all came from?

So I sat my boy down and told him the story...

It was at that point I think my kid really, REALLY got it. Not because of the material things, but because of how far reaching love can be. How goodness, kindness, and compassion span years and miles.

If we could all remember this as we go through each day, man, what a great world we'd live in.

L.A. Powell

Tim Tompkins: a Miss Apostol Kid Also!

I am a Foreman Scotty Kid!  It was good to find this site and take the trip back to childhood.

I was also a Miss Apostol Kid at Dewey Elementary School.  We knew that Miss Apostol was Foreman Scotty's girlfriend so we felt that we were lucky to be in her class.  Part of the collection of stuff from my school days includes a photograph of our class as well as report cards.  One of my favorite things to play with was the ‘screw boards’, perhaps other remember those as well?

Thru various kids groups I was on the show several times and have very fond memories of seeing the whole program being performed with 3D Danny, Bazark, Xavier T. Willard and the rest of the characters.

I was also fortunate to win a ‘Golden Horse Shoe’ that is displayed in my home to this day.

Tim Tompkins

Rita Hensen Jones Thought Foreman Scotty was the Most Handome Man in the World

I was on the Foreman Scotty Show for my 5th Birthday and got to ride Woody.

 I was on there with 3 other kids and we all got pink “Snowball” cakes. My sister and two brothers were there as well as a neighbor boy we took with us and he got “lassoed” that day.

 That is one of the fondest memories of my life. I thought  Foreman Scotty was the most handsome man in the world.  I was a little leary of Xavier T Willard though. 

As a grandmother of triplet girls, I wish we had good wholesome programming that the Circle 4 Ranch provided us.  Thanks for this website.  My  5th birthday was on 2 Nov 1960 but waited until Friday to go...they still let me ride Woody!  It was great.  My sister got one of the “Golden Eggs” I think that was from a sponsor.

Great memories.

Rita Henson Jones

Karen (Borden) Stephenson "Can't believe I found this!"

I was just today reading the Oklahoma Moments put out by Discover Oklahoma and was thinking that they should do a segment on Foreman Scotty! 

You see, my maiden name was Borden.  My Grandpa and Steve's dad were brothers.  I never got to be on the show as a kid, but I did get to see him a time or two when he was in stores making appearances and got to meet him.  I was little but my Mom told him who we were.  I always thought it was neat that I was related to someone "famous"!
 
I would like to know more about the "archives" and maybe get to see it sometime.  I live in Woodward but have a son and daughter-in-law and a daughter that live in the City.
 
Can't wait to hear from you!
 
Karen (Borden) Stephenson

Cindy Frankenfield Wouldn't relinquish Her Golden Horseshoe...Don't You Either!

Lisa,

A friend posted your link on her Facebook page. I'm a Foreman Scotty Kid, too.
I was on your Dad's show several times during the 60's, with my Girl Scout troop, friend's birthday parties, and other occasions. Darn the luck, with a Christmas Eve birthday, I never got to ride Woody!! I can't complain though, because I did find myself chosen by the Magic Lasso, and yes, I still have my Golden Horseshoe, too. :-)

When the Oklahoma Historical Society was asking for a Golden Horseshoe, for their exhibit, my Mother suggested I donate mine. I gave her what she called a "blank stare" and said, "No, thanks. I think I'll keep it!" LOL

I've had such fun reading what other have written about their memories! I saw John Beebe's post. His parents were my Sunday School teachers, when his Dad was at KWTV. I saw Kimi Hurst's post. We went to junior high together briefly at Eisenhower in OKC.

I remember those serials and how much fun it was to try to guess what would happen next. I think that's something that helped kids learn to identify with characters in a story.. and guess what would happen next.. and think of what they would do if it was them.. all things that we often struggle to teach them today.. Thanks to your Dad, and Willie and Cannonball, we were learning to empathize and think like the characters in the story without knowing we were learning.. :-D..

I asked someone at one of the TV stations recently why they couldn't give us television like Foreman Scotty today.. and the answer I received was.. "It's too expensive." Hmmm it's too expensive to give kids good local role models.. Sad, isn't it? We're the last generation to have local heroes who genuinely cared whether we succeeded or not!

Thankfully, we grew up at a time that had real live people who cared. :-) and Lisa.. thanks to you and your brother for sharing your father with all the kids in Oklahoma. It couldn't have been easy ALL the time to have people coming out of nowhere to talk to him. I think I can safely say thank you for everyone for making the sacrifices you guys did for the benefit of all OKLAHOMA Foreman Scotty Kids..

Blessings!

Cindy

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Cindy ~

What a great reply! I love it!
We need to get you a ride on Woody as soon as possible...it's never too late!
I'm so glad you found us, and your memories are heart warming to say the least.
You hold on to your Golden Horseshoe...dad always said it brought great luck if hung upside down over your bedroom doorway (or den today)...then your luck can never run out!

I've been bloggng for almost six years now, and have had the most amazing stories shared with me...to think you found me on facebook! (Time to update badges.) LOL
I want you to know you are more than welcome to come by and visit the family's original Archives (if you can catch my brother there,  all the better! )

I'm always interested as a Journalist, in hearing peoples memories of that era.
Not only of our Father, but Wilson Hurst, Danny, and all their cohorts!
They had so much fun, and adored children's brilliance!

The reasons the stations wont "Risk" it, is a direct FCC ruling having to do with a "Live human being" hosting a children's television show.

They adapted the rulings in 1971. No more Miss Fran, but Ho Ho was Ok. (apparently Clowns are not real human beings...Ed was to me, and many more!) That's the nature of Broadcasting, and yes it's sad.

Our family welcomes you and all the FSK of the 50' and 60's!
PLEASE stay in touch, you are now officially a "Foreman Scotty's Kid!"

Thank you so much for the contact...

Warmly,
Lisa Powell and Cliff Davis

Cliff Davis, (Son of "Foreman Scotty") Johnnie Ferguson AKA "Count Gregor"( long time friend of Dad's) with Woody The Birthday Horse 3/09

Recently Johnnie Ferguson of Count Gregor fame, stopped by the family archives in The Western Ave District.
okc's equivalent to the West End,  6th street, a burgeoning hot spot for talented Ad execs, trendy shops, and pricey eateries. A must visit for out-of-towners returning home for Summer vacations with family.

The Archives are not yet open to the public, but you can look for it in, or near 2010.
A good year to celebrate the near 60th Anniversary of "The Adventures of Foreman Scotty's"commencement year in 1951 pre Korea days.

You might be able to catch a glmpse of Woody if you stop by on Lil' bros lunch hour...
usually between 12;30pm and 1:30 pm Mon-Fri.

No admission is required, just knock on the door and ask if Cliff is available.
If his schedule allows he'd love nothing more than to share Woody with you.
Allow photo's taken at no cost...of course.

If not, Cliff will inform you of a time, camera in hand, when you, your children, extended family members are welcome to invigorate your tactile senses...and fully recall the horse, our stepbrother...Woody.
..to relive memories never to be forgotten.
Contact the FOREMAN SCOTTY ARCHIVES @

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Janis Robinson Jones Still Remembers the Lizard Foreman Scotty Caught!

My family and I moved from Oklahoma to Virginia in 1970, when I was 10.

We never forgot Foreman Scotty. My sister and I still sing the "Foreman Scotty" Birthday Song at every birthday party! Our kids, who never saw him, know all about him and his show.

I remember a picnic with him where he caught a lizard for me. I was so impressed! It's probably been 40 years since that picnic and I still remember!

Janis Robinson Jones

Woody Rides Again!

It was a research project for my son's 4th grade class which brought him to me, eye's teary, head hung low..."Buddy, what's gotcha so down?"

"Mom...(gulp) Mrs. Day says we have to do the research project on a famous person that we'd like to learn more about (gulp), but I've looked everywhere Mom, EVERYWHERE. There's no books in the school library, no websites, NOTHING Mom. (Gulp) I know he was famous cuz he was on that magazine cover at the grocery store...and every time someone finds out who he is they act like he was the PRESIDENT or something. (gulp)"

"Uhh, honey slow down, I'm a little confused...WHO is the famous person you want to learn more about?"

"(Gulp) ...my Grandpa I never knew..."Foreman Scotty"

Finally, and with great trepidation, this itty bitty 4th grader spat out what he feared may have been one of his Mother's grander stories, nary a word of truth to it. (I AM a good story teller you know. Eh hem.)

"So you're telling me you have chosen to do your research project on the infamous "Foreman Scotty", and are unable to locate adequate data sufficient to document such a man, myth or T.V. cowboy...is that correct?"

(Sniff) "Yeeaaas! (wurble, gulp, snerf)

"I see. Quite a conundrum you have here. ((hugs)) Let me make a phone call Love, we'll get that research project done, no worries. (Couldn't find a website my hiney, hrmph.)

You see, I've never taken my son to the Oklahoma Historical Center to see the "Mock-up" of the "Foreman Scotty Show". In fact, I myself have never seen it either.
I've heard it's lovely, the curator does a fabulous job of entertaining and informing patrons, but...that man, Steve Powell, was also the father of two amazing children first and foremost.

I have, so far, no desire to remember his image that way, as I'm sure you understand.
Perhaps when my itty bitty 4th grader is a tad bit older, we'll go as a family, but not yet.

In lieu of, I called my brother and asked if he had time to meet my son and I to see our families personal "Mock-up" so-to-speak. There will be more on our families plans later, but as archivists, historians, and mainly Foreman Scotty's children, we know what is near and dear to the public's heart.

As my son walked the halls, catapulted back some fifty years, fascinated by images and artifacts...my brother and I held back the tears.

There at the end of a long hallway, surrounded by images of Dad and the faces os so many Oklahoma youth of half a century...

Proudly stood "Woody II", emblazoned with pocket lights from the ceiling above. 

(The kid in me wanted to say "TOLD you SO, and stick out my tongue") but alas I am a Mother now, so my tongue held.

My son climbed aboard and the water works began.

Daddy, if you could only see how beautiful all your Grandchildren are...we are raising them to specifications pertaining to "Freckle Barrels, head-bone haircuts and Daddy...they're just cute as a bugs ear.

See...

John Malone's Mother Remembers a Pure heart

My mother was a 5th grade teacher in Burns Flat (then Clinton Sherman Air Force Base) when your dad came to the school in about 1962.  There was a young man in her room that would be labeled today as severely handicapped.

My mother always remembered how kind your dad was to him and that even though the young man was not aware of much he was really excited about meeting Foreman Scotty.

John Malone