Branson, Missouri’s greatest entertainers posed for photographer Bob Linder in entrance of Big Cedar Lodge earlier than a press convention on the opening weekend of “entertainment season,” May 2, 1992.

Photographed are Johnny Cash (whose theater was nonetheless incomplete), Moe Bandy, Andy Williams, Boxcar Willie, Shoji Tabuchi, Mel Tillis, Jim Stafford, Ray Stevens, Steve Presley, Lloyd Presley, Gary Presley, Bill Mabe, Jim Mabe, Joy Bilyeu, Diana Houseman, Splinter Middleton, Bob Leftridge, Carlotta Gail, Darren Humphrey, Joe Cook, Bobby Bowen, Robby McGee, Kent Humphrey, John Shepherd, Dale Sullens, Denzel Koontz, Brian Hord, Dino Kartsonakis and Johnny Walters.

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