Lone Pine Film Museum

Settled into our luxurious Boulder Creek Resort for one night that stretched to two.  Neighbors – fabulous; pool  and spa – marvelous; Roku deliriously happy in his surroundings – check.  Pull through site, shade trees, super nice people is what this place is all about, and we lapped it up like a kitten with spilled milk.

Turns out the town of Lone Pine is one of the most filmed in the history of cowboy movies – who knew?  They document this at their Lone Pine Film Museum which is so cool it’s off the charts.  Behind the town, toward the mountains, lie the Alabama Hills, and a winding song of a road called “Movie Road.”  That’s where most of the movie magic happened and it is a sight to behold :

Lone Pine Film Museum Saddle

Lone Pine Film Museum Saddle

Roy Rogers Riders Rules - Excellent!

Good Old Roy Rogers

Dale Evans Chair Fabric

Quentin Tarantino's Chair - he's a visitor and speaker at the museum

 

Hand tooled chaps

Tom Mix - yummy!

Tremors man-eating worm

Nudie the tailor of stars, rhinestone cowboy maker

Nudie's Caddie

Nudie's Caddy

Nudie's Caddie

Nudie's Caddy

Nudie, his suit and his caddy

The Lone Ranger and Silver

Spent the evening talking with our very interesting neighbors, a mom and daughter doing a “shake out” of the daughter’s trailer, which is a cool fold up type.  Laura, the daughter, lives in a Death Valley town called Ridgecrest with her husband and son.  Turns out the town is all military – both civilians and enlisted.  She’s an engineer and a lawyer, and manages projects, while her husband works as an office manager.  On the side they belong to the SCA – Society for Creative Anachronism – and attend “Wars” and such between different kingdoms.  Very interesting.

Her mother, “The Colonel” (forgive me for not holding on to her name!), lives in Illinois but visits Laura and family quite often.  She is retired from the Army and served as a nurse.  Talk about a live wire!  She has been in the Peace Corp, travels to India and Tibet in her nursing capacity, volunteers at the American Legion, belongs to a walking group and goes to church on Sunday.  Whew!  She’s also got a great sense of humor, loves her daughter and is kind to the bone.  She and Tony understood their service very well and had a lot of stories to talk about and compare.  We feel very fortunate to have met these two women.