tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306223274540306366.post4540195032755137008..comments2024-03-26T02:25:20.305-07:00Comments on Iverson Movie Ranch: The Iverson Movie Ranch Western street, one building at a time ... Part IX: The Lost DutchmanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306223274540306366.post-73312557613086228782020-04-22T13:44:20.599-07:002020-04-22T13:44:20.599-07:00That's a great observation. No, I hadn't m...That's a great observation. No, I hadn't made that connection before. But I definitely see what you're talking about, and I believe you nailed it. <br />This is a terrific find for a number of reasons. For one thing, it connects the "Wee Willie Winkie" set from 1937 with the Western street, which was built in late 1944 and first used in the 1945 release "Along Came Jones." The connection has long been speculated about, but it has been hard to prove. For years it was thought that the buildings down at the southwest end of town were the ones that dated back to the 1937 "Wee Willie Winkie" set, but those theories didn't quite hold up.<br />What this also means is that the "odd-shaped building," or at least the earlier version of it, the "adobe building near Pond Rock" as seen in the famous "Wee Willie Winkie" promo shot, would have been sitting there all those years, and is likely to have been involved in other productions as well.<br />I'm also now taking a fresh look at the rarely seen "small adobe" that turns up in very early appearances by the Western street, also at the far north end of town but on the west side of the street. I know the 1939 classic "Stagecoach" shot in the area, and I'm starting to think the "small adobe" might have a connection to the "Dry Fork way station" in "Stagecoach." <br />For readers who want to see the odd-shaped building and the small adobe, you may want to click on one of the links at the end of the post, above — the one that goes to "Part X: The original north end of town."<br />To see the "Wee Willie Winkie" photo with Shirley Temple walking past the adobe building, you can go to this url:<br />http://iversonmovieranch.blogspot.com/2018/09/remembering-burt-reynolds-heres-burt.html<br />... Scroll down to the sixth photo.<br />You can see the "Dry Fork way station" from "Stagecoach" by going to the following url:<br />https://iversonmovieranch.blogspot.com/2011/02/revisiting-iverson-locations-in-john.html<br />Thanks for an important find and a great comment.<br />-SNSwami Nanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12917532765036907178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306223274540306366.post-18896046001788024022020-04-22T11:42:30.057-07:002020-04-22T11:42:30.057-07:00Hello,
You may have figured this out?
I believe th...Hello,<br />You may have figured this out?<br />I believe the "Odd Shaped Building" in the Western Town at the NE end of town, just North of the General store and Pond Rock, (Seems to only have pictures of the front SW corner and the rear SE corner) was in fact the same Adobe Bldg from Wee Willie Winkie promo shot showing Shirley and the young boy marching past pond rock and a small white adobe building, notice the larger rocks at lower 1/2 of wall, then smaller stone above, compare to the picture above from the "Ghost Town Renegades" 47, you can tell where a window opening has been filled in and a different smoother material used above small stones to extend the Height and sloped roof added.<br />Thx, A10ACN Scott, Robbinsnoreply@blogger.com