Thanks, I need to put that on my to do list.
I remembered what you had said but we didn't have much time because we were hanging out with family. My D-I-L's parents took us to a Persian restaurant (they are Armenian and Iranian non muslims) where we feasted on piles of new foods we have never tried before. I had the lamb shank and eggplant stew. But various types of kabobs with the tenderest of meats and exotic sauces too good to describe here that we all passed around to each other while a belly dancer whurled around the room.Wyatt:Congratulations on the new grandbaby & I have a question,did u go to Olvera st or Phillipes like I suggested while u were in LA?This part is museum related,back in 1930 Johnny Mack Brown was on location north of LA starring in a new film about Billy the Kid when a cowboy came riding in on his horse while they were filming that wasn't part of the cast & ruined the take which upset the director until he realized who it was,it was William S. Hart riding his old horse Fritz,Harts ranch wasn't very far from where they were filming,when things settled down Hart gave JMB one of Billy the Kids guns w/provenance & he used it for the movie.Years later I was talking to JMB's daughter who I have known for years & asked her if she or her brother still had it & she told me somehow it had ended up in the Autry museum & when they had the fire there several yrs. ago it had gotten damaged in the fire & some idiot who obviously wasn't very smart through it out in the trash.
Wyatt:Congratulations on the new grandbaby & I have a question,did u go to Olvera st or Phillipes like I suggested while u were in LA?This part is museum related,back in 1930 Johnny Mack Brown was on location north of LA starring in a new film about Billy the Kid when a cowboy came riding in on his horse while they were filming that wasn't part of the cast & ruined the take which upset the director until he realized who it was,it was William S. Hart riding his old horse Fritz,Harts ranch wasn't very far from where they were filming,when things settled down Hart gave JMB one of Billy the Kids guns w/provenance & he used it for the movie.Years later I was talking to JMB's daughter who I have known for years & asked her if she or her brother still had it & she told me somehow it had ended up in the Autry museum & when they had the fire there several yrs. ago it had gotten damaged in the fire & some idiot who obviously wasn't very smart through it out in the trash.
DC:Another interesting place to see things about the old west that hardly anyone knows or remembers about is William S. Harts ranch,when he died he left it to the state I think & they made it into a state park of some kind or other.He had a great gun collection & there's all kinds of western memorabilia there,it's a little north of L.A. & I'm jealous of u having the sandwiches today,did u think to buy any of the mustard they have there to take home w/u?This thread has been inspirational to me. To go down to Philippes to have lunch. Which I did today.
Not a bad little motorcycle ride, except for lane splitting the last mile or two in the downtown area.
And to look up info on the Roy Rogers Ranches. I believe they were not the Double R, but the Double R Bar.
The first one in Chatsworth is only the house. All the land was subdivided long ago.
But the second and last one, near Victorville is in the original Roy Rogers configuration. It's too hot up there now (high desert) but maybe I'll ride by on the way to something else. Like Utah in September.
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Right. They also had one of those ten engraved identical Colt SAAs Bob Dalton bought for the Coffeyville raid. This one was carried by Emmett Dalton and one of his holsters are there, too. It's 5 1/2", .45, blued engraved, with pearl grips. Wilson's book "The Peacemakers" features these guns, too. Also there was Steve McQueen's Tom Horn suit, Jeff Bridges Wild Bill outfit, and more stuff to drool over than I can mention here.For those of us that will probably never get to the Gene Autry museum, a lot of the guns in there are pictured in Rosa's 'Age of The Gunfighter'. I recognized some of them in Matt's pictures.
You did?! wow. I still have a Guns and Ammo from around 1972, I think, with those guns and rig on the cover. I think there's pictures of the rig being made which might feature your hands on it. I've always considered these Alvin White colts with those super heavy relief carved ivories the perfect two gun Colt set. I forgot they were at the museum but they weren't displayed when I went last week. Again, absolutely fine work on that rig.I did all the gold and silver work for this 2 gun rig back in the 70's for the cover of Guns & Ammo magazine, It's now in the Autry along with another one I did, Pics not that great
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Thanks, It was the March 1974 cover and centerfold, I did the work for John Bianchi, What you see at the Autry is a small fraction of whats there, They have a lot in the warehouse they rotate in and out.You did?! wow. I still have a Guns and Ammo from around 1972, I think, with those guns and rig on the cover. I think there's pictures of the rig being made which might feature your hands on it. I've always considered these Alvin White colts with those super heavy relief carved ivories the perfect two gun Colt set. I forgot they were at the museum but they weren't displayed when I went last week. Again, absolutely fine work on that rig.