Historic Newspaper Archives

Restraining Order Issued
On Sale Of Pioneertown

San Bernardino County Sun
January 7, 1954

Security title holds the trustees deed for a $60,000 loan made in 1946 to Pioneertown directors, who have announced they cannot meet the terms. Interest and other expenses have shoved the total of two $80,000.

Pioneertown, Country Showplace,
Sold at Auction to L.A. Men

San Bernardino County Sun
January 22, 1954

The sale of the antiquated town and it's surrounding 20,000 acres was handled at public auction at the San Bernardino County Courthouse by J.W. Berry, assistant secretary of the title company.

Old West On Block
Pioneertown Bought by Two Auto Dealers

The Los Angeles Times
January 23, 1954

Pioneertown, San Bernardino County's Old West showplace, has been sold for $80,400 to two Los Angeles automobile dealers.

New Ownership Makes Pioneertown Optimistic

The Los Angeles Times
April 5, 1954

The faded store fronts, hitching rails, dirt Main St. and other mementos of early California are still much the same in Pioneertown, the movie and television shooting location 120 miles from Los Angeles just off the Twentynine Palms highway in the San Bernardino County desert.

Pioneertown Provides Bit of
Old West for Tourists and Movies

San Bernardino County Sun
April 11, 1954

Of all San Bernadino County's unique locations--mountains, lakes, forests, desert--perhaps the most outstanding and picturesque is Pioneertown, which has a pair on more movie and TV screens and any other spot of the Old West.

Buffalo Bill, Jr. in Television Debut

Sullivan Tri County News
March 24, 1955

Dick Jones is the star of the new television series "Buffalo Bill, Jr.," sponsored by Milky Way, a product of Mars, Inc. This new western is produced in California at the famous Pioneertown, Lone Pine, in Apple Valley

Caravan Points Up Need
For Road to Mountains

San Bernardino County Sun
June 12, 1955

Pioneertown--The Red Dog Cafe was the scene of 58 cars and more than 230 people from behind and low desert who rendezvoused for the trek to Big Bear City--pine-covered mountain resort in the San Bernardino Mountains. The lead car carried the slogan "We Want a Road to Big Bear," and cars carry banners for the villages of Desert Hot Springs, Morongo Valley, Pine Wells, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, Joshua Tree, Sunfair and Twentynine Palms.

Village Group Joins In Trek To Big Bear

Desert Sentinel
June 16, 1955

The lead car carried the slogan "We Want a Road to Big Bear," and cars carried banners for their own villages. Civic leaders and members of the Associated Chambers of Commerce who handled the caravan were: Ted Richardson of Twentynine Palms, President of the Associated Chambers; Marty Dodge, secretary, of Joshua Tree; and Jules Boltazar, chairman of the caravan of Yucca Valley.

Pioneertown Trek

San Bernardino County Sun
September 15, 1955

Two Horseman's groups, the Sheriff Rangers and Big Bear Riders, took part Tuesday in the fifth annual track from Big Bear Lake to Pioneertown. The first party from Big Bear arrived at Rim Rock Canyon and is greeted by a desert delegation.

Pioneertown is Newest Old Town in All of the West

The Desert Sun
October 14, 1955

PIONEERTOWN, the newest little "old” town in the West—on the south western slopes of; the San Bernardino mountains. 4,000 feet above and some 15 miles north of Devil’s Garden. With peaks and pinnacles of rock as a backdrop, mesa and Joshua trees fading info distant vistas of blue, this huge; stage setting filled the eyes of' observing location scouts and, an idea was born and swathed, in the Hollywood Intrepid manner.