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D43736-2
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- 1949-07-15 (Creation)
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Western singer and motion picture actor Gene Autry is welcomed to Cushman Hospital on July 15, 1949. He is shown shaking hands with an unidentified man, perhaps a hospital official, while children wait in the background. Although Mr. Autry was in Tacoma for only one day as part of a large musical variety show, he made time to visit the sick children at the Cushman Indian Hospital on East 28th St. People were very familiar with Mr. Autry even before his long running television program, The Gene Autry Show on CBS (1950-55), due to his Melody Ranch radio program which ran from 1940-1956. His trademark theme song, "Back in the Saddle Again," was extremely popular. WWII Sgt. Gene Autry would go on to own several radio and television stations and become active in professional baseball as the owner of the (California) Angels. ALBUM 8.
Singers; Actors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Autry, Gene, 1907-1998; Hospitals--Tacoma--1940-1950; Cushman Indian Hospital (Tacoma); Indians of North America--Tacoma--1940-1950; Shaking hands--Tacoma;