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Welcome to the unofficial website of Mr. Ed.
The purpose of this website was supposed to show what fun tourist attraction activites there is for Mr. Ed's fans in Tahlequah, OK. However, I have learned some very interesting information. For many years, people in this town thought that the original Mr. Ed was buried just outside the city limits. According to several official Mr. Ed websites, the "Mr. Ed" buried here is a fake!
How Mister Ed was laid to rest...
"By
the time Mister Ed reached the grand age of nineteen he was suffering
from a broken leg and a variety of health problems. In 1970 he was
quietly put to sleep with no publicity. The horse which died in Oklahoma in 1979 (who everyone
thought was Mister Ed) was in fact just an animal that once posed as Ed
for some publicity photos used by the production company."
BUT what great actor didn't have a stunt double? And that is what Tahlequah, OK should really be known for. We are the proud owners of the Mr. Ed look-alike, Pumpkin, that was so convincing that magazine and newspaper reporters wanted to use our beloved horse to stand in for photos. Another thing that not only Tahlequah, but Oklahoma as well, should be proud of is that the actual trainer of the original Mr. Ed, aka Bamboo, worked under the supervision of our very own Will Rogers.
However, the spirit of Mr. Ed does live here. There are many activites that are held in honor of the talking Palomino.Contact Information:
Mr. Ed
c/o Dead Ed's Gravesite
11458 Palomino Lane
Tahlequah, OK 74464
Phone: 918/555-5511
Fax: 918/-555-5555
email: deadeds@tahlequah.com
Last updated November 29, 2004
This site is the proud recepient of the Mr. Ed Web Award.