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The museum also has a cowboy-western show presented by Roy Rogers Junior. He talks about growing up with Roy and Dale. He also performs songs that his parents sang -- like the one at the end of their TV show in the nineteen fifties. Here are Roy Rogers and Dale Evans with "Happy Trails."

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Visitors at the Lucy-Desi Museum in Jamestown, New York
Another museum, this one in New York State, honors two other entertainers who were married to each other: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center is in Jamestown, New York, where she was born.

Lucy and Desi are best known for their weekly television series "I Love Lucy" in the nineteen fifties. It was a situation comedy.

Plots often went like this: Lucy would get into some kind of trouble, often as a result of some attempt to break into show business. Her nightclub-entertainer husband, the Cuban-born Ricky (played by Desi) would get mad at her. Fred and Ethel, their friends who owned the building where they all lived, would get involved. And somehow there was always a funny ending.

The show has remained popular in repeats all these years. The museum says "I Love Lucy" has never been off the air in the United States since it was first broadcast in nineteen fifty-one. The show has appeared in twenty-two languages in more than seventy countries around the world.

Here is Desi Arnaz singing the words to the familiar theme song.

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The Lucy-Desi museum opened in nineteen ninety-six. It tells about the lives of the famous Hollywood couple. Included are stories told by some of Lucy's childhood friends in Jamestown.

Also part of the center is the Desilu Playhouse. Desilu was the name of their production company. The playhouse has clothing from the show as well as some of the sets used in the filming. These include the couple's New York apartment and the California hotel rooms where Lucy had some of her adventures.

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