COLT’S PYTHON, THEN AND NOW
Those of us who are old enough to remember the 1950s know what a great time it was to be a kid growing up in America. And, the middle of the decade, 1955, was a really good year. The number-one song on the radio was “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and the Comets, considered by some to have been the first rock ‘n’ roll song. It was also the year Ford introduced the Thunderbird, Walt Disney opened Disneyland, and a new TV Western, Gunsmoke, went on the air.
For fans of firearms, 1955 gave us several historically important new handguns.
After years of insisting it would never happen, Colt brought back the Single Action Army revolver, in part because of the popularity of TV shows such as . Bill Ruger also saw the trend and, to give Colt some head-to-head com petition, he introduced the single-action Blackhawk, the company’s first centerfire.
