Sandra Martinez sent us these candids taken by a professional photographer.  Sandra's business supplies photos of hundreds of Hollywood celebrities to fans, some of which she takes at shows, others from the files of professionals..

We don't know the date, but the one above is a favorite


The woman in the photo above is Peter's ex-wife Mary

The Leather Suit

Worn alone this jacket whispers 70's.
Worn with the pants and bag it screams 70's
 

A VISIT TO GHOST TOWN IN THE SKY
Maggie Valley, North Carolina.  August 1967.

Jaxie, list-owner of the of the TV West Yahoo e-group took the photo on the right with her Brownie Starmite [now there's a blast from the past all on it's own].  The other two were taken with by her father with his trusty Polaroid.  She told us we could feel free to touch them up but, part of the charm of digging out these old snapshots is that they aren't studio shots and more importantly, she gives us way too much credit if she thinks we can do that anyway.  She promised to send us a paragraph or two on this event eventually.  [Maybe she'll explain why August in North Carolina called for Peter to wear a jacket more suitable for fall in Wyoming.]

Auburn California is the home of this web site.  However, long before the internet or the Yuppie migration to this foothills community above Sacramento, the Laredo gang came to promote their new show by appearing in the parade that publicized our local Auburn District Fair (now the Gold Country Fair).  Peter was announced as the grand marshal of the parade [making the others his minions or "court" or something].  Looking back it seemed odd to think of Peter, the youngster of the group, being the grand marshal riding in the stage coach while the others went horseback, particularly in light of the relationship between Peter's character and the Captain played by Philip Carey.  But as the parade took place on September 19, 1965, only three days after the first episode of Laredo aired, Peter was really the only well known actor of the group, having had lots of fans from Lawman.  The pictures below come from the Auburn Journal, a little local paper that came out twice a week and didn't save picture files.  These came off microfiche from the library.  There were no pictures published that came from the parade itself -- we don't claim this is a good paper.  And our friends who were there can't find the Brownie snaps they took at the time.

Our friend Debbie Stallions was but a mere child at the time and coming from a family with six kids and only one TV didn't remember Lawman.  Her big thrill was seeing "Granny Goose."  Prior to Laredo, Philip Carey was the star of a very successful series of potato chip commercials in which the punchline was his proclaimation that he was Granny Goose.  Carey, an imposing man, about 6'6" would come into the commercial wearing a cowboy hat and a western jacket and looking not too much like someone to be made fun of for being called Granny Goose.  Debbie did remember William Smith coming to her side of the road on his horse to sign some autographs,  When she looked up into his face, she thought he was the biggest man she'd ever seen.  Her teen-age sister however, was very aware of Peter and still remembers getting him to sign the front of her shirt as he walked his way thru the fair crowd later.  (Of course, these days girls just take off their shirt and have a good-looking guy like Peter sign their bare breasts.) No one remembers if Neville Brand was there, but Peter has talked about how he, Bill and Neville had a whole act they would take to various rodeos and fairs in which they sang and joked around.

The appearance of Peter and Company in the Auburn parade was Auburn's last claim to a celebrity connection until John Travolta filmed his movie Phenomenon in Old Town Auburn.  [But Clint Walker from Cheyenne does live in the next rural county over and Eddie Murphy has a home in the nearby community of Granite Bay.]

Peter Schermer (son of Lawman producer Jules Schermer) sent us these pictures of Peter with Joel Grey and Roberta Shore entertaining young Peter Schermer's Cub Scout troop.  Now there's a perk of being related to studio brass we can all envy.

 

Joel & Roberta guested on the Lawman episode "Owny O'Reilly, Esq." which aired October 1, 1961.  These photos must have been taken in September of the same year.

We don't know which of the kids is young Peter Schermer. We do know that Peter has great memories of his time spent on the Lawman set,especially about how much fun Peter Brown was to hang out with. [None of us doubt that for a minute.]

This page is an ongoing project.

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