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Every trip to Cincinnati is an opportunity to hobnob with relatives and to swap family stories. Today we were hanging out with Aunt Nancy and Peggy when a story surfaced that bears more research. As the legend goes, Karen’s grandfather and his friend Gene Kamp had an auto repair shop in Cincinnati in the 1920’s and hired as a mechanic a young man by the name of Leonard Slye that was later to acheive fame as the singing cowboy of the movies, Roy Rogers! If that’s not enough, Slye signed with Republic Pictures in 1937 during the era when Steve’s mother was employed as office manager for Republic Pictures in Cincinnati.

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