PIONEERTOWN, "a replica of the West as it used to be" is a town built to function both as a permanent western movie set and as a real town with legitimate business houses. It is located on the high desert about 30 miles north of Palm Springs. It Is the birthplace of the Judge Roy Bean series and other famous Westerns.
The first 18 holes of golf in the fourth annual Pioneer Pass Golf Challenge will be played today at Yucca Valley Country Club by a total of 15 entries with the official kick-off dinner following at 7:30 tonight at Callahanโs Restaurant.
Activities will begin at 1 p.m. Friday at the Yucca Valley Country Club where participants will play the first 18 holes of golf. A kickoff dinner will be held at 7 that evening at Callahanโs restaurant for participants and guests.
The Fifth Annual Pioneer Pass Golf Challenge will feature the 28 mile "World's Longest and Only 19th Hole," connecting the Hi-Desert with the resorts of the San Bernardino Mountains. It is sponsored by the Park and Recreation Districts of Big Bear Valley and Yucca Valley.
Faced with the prospect of rain or worse today or tomorrow or both, 18 entrants in the Pioneer Pass Golf Challenge to teed off yesterday from the Yucca Valley golf club course.
Only six weeks away, the Pioneer Pass Camera Cavalcade slated for Sunday, July 26, is pulling camera clubs, photographers and models โ candidates for title of โMiss Pioneer Passโ โfrom coastal cities and communities throughout the Hi-Desert, according to a spokesman for the Yucca Valley Park and Recreation District, sponsor of the event.
"Miss Pioneer Pass" will receive all expenses to the three-day golf event, plus a trophy. She will also win a feature roll in the 30-minute Color and sound shorts, "the 19th hole." The film is to relate the story of the 28-mile historic cattle and mining trail between the Hi-Desert and Bear Valley that serves as the fairway for the "World's Longest and only 19th Hole."
Using the historic cattle and mining trail Pioneer Pass for its fairway connecting the hi-desert with the mountains of Bear Valley, the Oct. 9, 10 and 11 golfing challenge for the first time I have a woman's flight with four women accepting the challenge and representing the communities of Twentynine Palms at Yucca Valley.
Publication of a new 12-page information brochure and the completion of the blueprints for Mane Street and the Pioneertown-to-be are the latest steps taken in the development of the 30-square mile Golden Empire, it was announced by J. C. Van Horne, resident manager of the project.
The annual spring ride of the San Bernadino County Sheriffโs Rangers, complete with the authentic flavor of the Old West, will get underway in the Yucca Valley โ Pioneertown area
