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A linebacker for the McCallie School football team, Walker is 6-foot-4 and weighs 315 pounds. “I had him in pink as a baby, and he proudly Prom Dresses on sale his pink button-downs, polos and bow ties,” she said. “He’s big as a bull but pink as a pig.” When he was a child, Levi Brown couldn’t wait to get home from school in the afternoons and turn on  Jasz Couture Prom Dress   the radio to hear his favorite Western show — “The Lone Ranger.” So it seems perfectly natural that the 81-year-old retired Virginia Department of Transportation employee would eventually become the Lone Ranger, in a manner of speaking. For the past five years, the Culpeper man has been a  of the Silver Screen Saddle Pals, a group of men who dress up as the cowboys who were the heroes of their childhood. “We don’t want the old B-Westerns to die,” says Brown. “We hope to help young people learn to appreciate them.” The “B” in B-Westerns stands for “budget” and these one-hour-or-less pictures were cranked out in the 1930s and 1940s as quickly and as cheaply as possible.

Sometimes an entire feature was filmed in seven days. Theaters played these rootin’ tootin’ shoot-’em-up movies mostly on Saturday afternoons, and kids, especially young boys, flocked to see them. “I had a newspaper route in Culpeper and I had to collect on Saturdays,” recalls Brown. “I would rush to get done so that I could be at the old Fairfax Theater at 2 o’clock for the matinee.” Brown recalls that he seldom missed a Saturday and used the money he made on his paper route to buy a 12-cent ticket. He saw at least two cowboy features and perhaps a serial before the theater emptied. Young Levi grew up, and by the time he became a working man, the B-Westerns he loved as fashion prom dress   a child had all but faded from the silver screen, though they remained embedded in Brown’s memory. More than six decades after he watched his final B-Western matinee, Brown, an avid reader, saw an in a VFW magazine about a book called “King of the Badmen” written by a Tennessee author named Bobby Copeland. Suddenly, the days of the old B-Westerns began calling and Brown immediately called Copeland to order a copy of the book.