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Throughout most of the 1960s and 1970s, Colt 45 was marketed towards the suburban white-collar middle class demographic. To this end, in a memorable ad campaign that lasted over 15 years, Billy Van portrayed a gentleman in suit and tie quietly sitting at a small table and taking little notice of activity around him, until a waiter or someone showed up with a schooner glass and a can of Colt 45.
Colt .45. Maverick. Shotgun Slade. Sugarfoot. Colt .45 (also known as The Colt Cousins) is an American Western television series, originally starring Wayde Preston, which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960. [1] The half-hour program is loosely based on the 1950 Warner Bros. film of the same name, starring Randolph Scott.
1963 →. The 1962 Houston Colt .45s were an expansion team in American Major League Baseball 's National League, and 1962 was the first season in franchise history. Harry Craft was Houston's first manager. The .45s finished eighth among the National League 's ten teams with a record of 64–96, 361⁄2 games behind the league champion San ...
1,151 ft⋅lbf (1,561 J) The .45 Colt (11.43×33mmR), often called the .45 Long Colt, is a rimmed, straight-walled, handgun cartridge dating to 1872. It was originally a black-powder revolver round developed for the Colt Single Action Army revolver. This cartridge was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1873 and served as an official US military ...
The Colt M1911 (also known as 1911, Colt 1911 or Colt Government in the case of Colt -produced models) is a single-action, recoil-operated, semi-automatic pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge. [9] The pistol's formal U.S. military designation as of 1940 was Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911 for the original model adopted in March 1911 ...
www.colt.com. Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC (CMC, formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is an American firearms manufacturer, founded in 1855 by Samuel Colt that has become a subsidiary of Czech holding company Colt CZ Group. It is the successor corporation to Colt's earlier firearms-making efforts, which started in 1836.
Donald Adam May (February 22, 1929 – January 28, 2022) was an American actor who was known for his roles in Colt .45 (1957–1960) and The Edge of Night.
University of Wyoming. Occupation. Actor. Years active. 1957–1990. Spouse. Carol Ohmart (m. 1956-1958) Wayde Preston (born William Erksine Strange; September 10, 1929 [citation needed] – February 6, 1992) was an American actor cast from 1957 to 1960 in the lead role in 67 episodes of the ABC / Warner Bros. Western television series, Colt .45.