Paramount Ranch Bank
by Gene Parks
Title
Paramount Ranch Bank
Artist
Gene Parks
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Photograph
Description
Paramount Ranch Bank
** Paramount Ranch Park was destroyed in the Woolsey Fire November 9, 2018. The only surviving buildings were the church and train station. **
** November 16, 2018
The National Park Service hopes to rebuild Western Town at Paramount Ranch within two years. **
In 1927, Paramount Studios purchased a 2,700-acre ranch on Medea Creek in the Santa Monica Mountains, between Malibu, California and the Conejo Valley. The studio built numerous large-scale sets on the ranch, including a huge replica of early San Francisco and an Old West town. It posed as Tombstone, Arizona and Dodge City, Kansas, as well as Tom Sawyer's Missouri, 13th-century China, and many other locales and eras around the world.
It is now Paramount Ranch Park in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
The location remains an active filming area.
Featured in these FAA Galleries:
- Spirit of the West – Photographs Only, 11 / 2018
- The World We See, 07 / 2018
- The Earth Is Art, 03 / 2018
- Pin Me-Daily , 03 / 2018
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March 26th, 2018
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Comments (14)
Gene Parks
Toni, thank you so much for your kind words and sharing your very personal connection to this historical place. I am heartbroken that we have lost another icon from our past. I was just there in June and was planning another trip this month for images after the leaves fall from the trees. I would visit Paramount every three od four months, sometime for the solitude. I’ve always loved the old west. Raised in Arkansas, my horse was 6 months old when I was born… a gift from my grandfather. As soon as it is safe, I will make a trip there to assess the damage. I hope some of it was spared.
Toni Hopper
I want to congratulate you on the special 'double feature' in which your image of this historic place is featured in the regular home page and also at the top in special features for the Spirit of the West Photographs only group! Please read what I wrote on the home page to learn more! Thanks for sharing your incredible work!
Gene Parks
Robyn, thanks so much for featuring my "Let's Ride" in the “Paramount Ranch Bank" group. I appreciate your support and all of the FFA family!
Gene Parks
Kelley, thanks so much for featuring my "Paramount Ranch Bank" in the “The Earth Is Art" group. I appreciate your support and all of the FFA family!
Kelley Freel-Ebner
Congratulations! Your extraordinary work has been Featured in the Fine Art America group “The Earth Is Art”! You are invited to archive your featured image for permanent storage and for viewing on the Discussions Page in: “2018 Member's Extraordinary Features Images Archive!” theme. Simply copy your image’s Embed URL on your image’s profile page, and paste it into the Discussion Topic site: https://fineartamerica.com/groups/the-earth-is-art-.html?showmessage=true&messageid=4025037
Gene Parks
Rebecca, thanks so much for featuring my "Paramount Ranch Bank" in the “Pin Me-Daily" group. I appreciate your support and all of the FFA family!
Gene Parks
Thank you so much Linda... your comments and support in much appreciated. Will look at cloning out the street light. It is a portable prop and will be removed for the next shoot. Thanks again!!!
Linda Unger
Just like the movies! Wonderful old feel to this! I love the scene, but, would have loved the street light cloned out! FAV!
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