Trina was able to verify another gem of information. The lariat was a huge neon circle that looked like it was spinning.” They left the saddle on for a couple of years, but people kept trying to climb the roof and pose, so the saddle had to go, too. “And that’s funny! Because that horse was on our matches down there forever - the horse with the lasso.”Īt least one Facebooker remembered that first horse, commenting: “I think the rider blew off in a storm about ‘63, ‘64. “Oh, yes, yes, yes! I forgot about that one,” Trina exclaimed. It had a cowboy on it waving an illuminated lasso. There’s black-and-white photographic proof of a different rearing stallion atop the Ranch Club. That said? I had to remind her that the horse was not the original. The palomino was made for the Ranch Club, and “was never on any other business.” Trina told me that the horse did not come from a bar in Ontario, Oregon, as some have claimed. “It was a good ol’ place,” she recalled when I spoke to her in 2017. A horse statue adorns the top of the bar Somewhere, formerly the Ranch Club, at 3544 W.
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