Wild West Sheriff Office
by Gene Parks
Title
Wild West Sheriff Office
Artist
Gene Parks
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Paramount Ranch jail and sheriff office in the wild wild west.
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.
This image honored by my FAA peers in their galleries:
- Spirit of the West – Photographs Only, 10 / 2018
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October 17th, 2017
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Comments (8)
David Luebbert
Great shot of a scene I have probably seen in the movies! Thanks for the history too.
Gene Parks
Toni, thanks so much for featuring my "Wild West Sheriff Office" in the “Spirit of the West – Photographs Only" group. I appreciate your support and all of the FFA family!
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