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THE LADY AT LEFT sheds a nostalgic tear as the piano man bangs out Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage. Boysenberry bar business is not brisk.
REGULATIONS
In case of train robbery, all passengers receive a return trip ticket free. This train connects with Butterfieldi Stage Line to Whiskey Flat. The Ghost Town & Calico Ry. »s not responsible for delays in transit.
PARSES
THE LAST FRONTIER
The Wild West awaits you at Ghost Town, a colorful collection of Gold Rush relics in Southern California
Photographs for MOVIE MAKERS by LEO CALOIA
ANY time you are tempted to think that the Wild West has been consigned to television and class B flickers, just hop in your jalopy and nudge her nose toward Southern California. There, 22 miles southeast of Los Angeles, on state highway 39, sits Ghost Town, hard by a more modest hamlet called Buena Park. So help us, you'd think they had planned the place for pictures !
And yet "sits" is scarcely the word for this infinitely phony, essentially authentic re-creation of a bygone era. For Ghost Town, despite its moribund monicker, is very much alive. Here, in this lovingly assembled replica of a rowdy western village, everything is operative. You can ride on the ancient, narrow-gauge railroad, rescued from its earlier operations on the Denver & Rio Grande! You can careen in the stage-coach, dance in the dance hall or drink in the sawdust-strewn saloon — if, indeed, boysenberry juice is your idea of a "drink."
There is a placer-type gold mine where you can pan for gold dust, a general merchandise store where you can spend it, or a Wells Fargo Express office where you can bank it. And if you fail to do either, there is a masked bandit on the choo-choo who will gladly relieve you of it.
Quite a picture place, this Ghost Town! And, though the old-time "Western" atmosphere has been super-dramatized, this re-creation of a colorful Western community is essentially honest. For Walter Knott, the owner and creator of Ghost Town, has for some years now been assembling it (on his 200-acre berry farm) from genuine buildings, stagecoaches, covered wagons and other Western relics salvaged from faded ghost towns of the golden era.
Better stop by there next time you're in Southern California. Make a fine short subject in your film collection.
HONESTLY AUTHENTIC are the careening Butterfield stage coach and the Denver & Rio Grande train, now enlivened by a phony robbery.