Boys Rewarded For Horse-Tracking Job
All efforts to locate the horse, which was wearing a $5,000 saddle and bridle, had failed until the boys trailed him for five hours through the San Bernardino mountains
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Johnsons Hollywood
Aside to pedestrians: PIoneertown, the new Hollywood for western films near Palm Springs, has a law set down by movie star president Russell Hayden. You can't drive your car on the main street. It's unpaved, will remain that way, and only for horses and people.
Hollywood Film Shop
Taking movies on location is so big a business that a new town has spread up to handle it.
A bunch of Hollywoodities run a clearing in the desert called Pioneertown where the chief thoroughfare is "Mane Street," the hay barn is a sound stage and half the buildings are false fronts.
New Town Provides “Location”
A bunch of Hollywoodites run a clearing in the desert where the chief thoroughfare is "Mane Street," the hay barn is a sound stage and half the buildings are false fronts.
Town Built For Western Film Scenes
The latest movie moviemaker the Pioneertown people enticed there was Gene Autry, who usually flies hundreds of miles to find backgrounds for his Columbia westerns. They persuaded him Pioneertown looked just as good as Arizona and was considerably closer.
Autry Flies Cast To Location Site
Gene Autry, the most air-minded Hollywoodian, flew the entire company of "The Cowboy and the Indian" to their location site at Pioneertown, California, 125 miles east, in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains.
Town Incorporated for Location Work
The latest movie moviemaker the Pioneertown people enticed there was Gene Autry, who usually flies hundreds of miles to find backgrounds for his Columbia westerns. They persuaded him Pioneertown looked just as good as Arizona and was considerably closer.
Rivals Get Together
Just to prove that all isn't knives in the back out Hollywood way. Gene Autry is filming practically all of his current film, "The Cowboy and the Indian," at Pioneertown, Calif. Roy Rogers owns a good slice of the place.
Village Builds Airstrip for Film
Notified that Autry wanted to fly his entire company there from Hollywood to film "The Cowboy and the Indian." in nearby Pioneertown, citizens of Yucca Village, purchased Army surplus landing strip section and in one day laid an S-shaped strip each runaway 3000 feet long.