Historic Newspaper Archives

Switch On An Oldie

The Evening Sun
September 30, 1949

Switch On An Oldie Hollywood, Cal. (AP)–The sign on the outskirts of Pioneertown, Cal., read “Live Here and Live Longer.” until Lew Ayres came along. After “Daybreak” locationed a week at the hot desert resort. Lew scribbled beneath the slogan,…

Filmland’s Pretty Boys Have Their Problems

Rapid City Journal
October 8, 1949

Now working in “Rogues in Sherwood Forest,” Derek said he turned down the Valentino role because he feels it would have branded him a dandy. He hopes he has lined up, for his next two films, the roles of a circus performer and a football player.

Short Cut Proves Myth and
Gives Raiders a Wild Ride

The Desert Sun
October 25, 1949

FROM BIG BEAR to Pioneertown, the first night’s stop, it was one grand ride with lunch at the abandoned Rose mine. There were 20 in the party, three pack mules. Little Raider, the Desert Raiders' mascot, and the chuck wagon.

Land of Beauty Nestles East of
Southland’s Tallest Peak

The Los Angeles Times
January 8, 1950

Easterly from Mt. San Gorgonio, whose 11,485 feet make it the tallest mountain in Southern California, lies a vast and bewildering beautiful desert-mountain empire which curves like a horseshoe around the western end of the Little San Bernardino Mountains.

Just Like a Movie

The Saturday Evening Post
January 28, 1950

Even in California, Pioneertown rates as something special. For here is an entire community—schools, saloons, dusty streets—that was built to provide a permanent set for Western movies.

Harvey in Hollywood

Council Grove Republican
February 17, 1950

We have our picture in the current issue of Saturday Evening Post (issue of Jan. 28).. in color too! In the layout for pictures for H. Allen Smith’s article on Pioneertown, Just Like The Movies the cowboy leaning on the hitching rail in front of the newspaper office is Harvey. The pictures were made while we were up in the desert making “Girl From San Lorenzo,” a Cisco Kid western.

Harvey in Hollywood

Council Grove Republican
February 17, 1950

“The Marshal of Gunsight Pass,” starring PIONEERTOWN’S president, RUSS HAYDEN bowed in on KCEA-TV, and Variety called it… “high caliber live western fare.” The show was by far the best local production we have seen and should have a happy future.

Harvey in Hollywood

Council Grove Republican
February 22, 1950

Hi Neighbor! This week we talk about movies and the people who make them. DANNY KAYE, who left SAM GOLDWYN to sign with the Warner Brothers, is now tearing up his contract and leaving the Burbank lot. He has made only one of the five pictures his contract called for, but the break has been called amicable. It’s our bet that DANNY forms a company of his own for indie production.

At Local Theatres

Republican and Herald
April 6, 1950

When the Cisco Kid adventure films go into production, citizens of the area around Pioneertown, California, 125 miles from Hollywood, are always happy. The most recent of these productions, entitled "Satan's Cradle," co-starring Duncan Renaldo as the Kid, and Leo Carrillo as Pancho, was completed a short while ago and will open Friday at the Capitol Theatre through United Artists release.

Beauty On The Desert

San Bernardino County Sun
April 9, 1950

This exciting trek through the Joshua tree desert region offers motorists and inspiring picture of grotesque plant formations, breathtaking vistas, old mines, got a palm tree awaits us and even a rustlers' secret valley. Most striking is the areas natural, unsophisticated beauty which makes it truly a desert lovers delight.