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Pioneertown, California
Pioneertown is an unincorporated community of the Morongo Basin region of the High Desert in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is an 1880s-themed town developed as a shooting location for actors working on Western films and TV series which includes businesses and residences. The Mane Street Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The winding, 4-mile (6.4 km) drive northwest to Pioneertown from Yucca Valley has been designated a California Scenic Drive, and the area is now surrounded by both privately and federally protected lands. The Sawtooths are a small mountain range to the south, while Black Hill is to the north.
Actor Dick Curtis started up the town in 1946 as an 1880s themed live-in motion-picture set. The town was designed to provide a place for production companies to reside while also using their businesses and homes in movies.
Pioneertown's founders intended the area to be a residential area with Mane Street acting as both a movie set and the town's commercial district.
Hundreds of Westerns and early television shows were filmed in Pioneertown, including The Cisco Kid and Edgar Buchanan's Judge Roy Bean.
Dick Curtis, Roy Rogers and Russell Hayden were some of the original developers and investors. Gene Autry filmed his weekly show in town for five years, using the buildings and businesses as part of the film set.
The Pioneer Bowl is an operating bowling alley. The third building to be built in Pioneertown, Pioneer Bowl served as a recreational venue for residents, actors, and crew after filming. When western films were no longer the predominant genre of the Hollywood movie industry, Pioneer Bowl became a busy league venue for hundreds of bowlers in the high desert. In 1969, Pioneer Bowl enrolled more women's league bowlers from the citrus belt of California than any other bowling alley in Southern California. That year over 5,000 teams from around the world bowled in the International Women's Bowling Congress in San Diego. Only two documented 7-10 conversions have happened in 79 years and those were completed by women bowlers. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans made the front page of the local newspaper when he opened the bowl with a strike on lane one. He bowled a 211-game in his cowboy boots, with Evans bowling with him and over 200 townfolk watching.
Bowling leagues were an active part of American culture, and dozens of businesses had leagues at Pioneer Bowl, especially after western films were no longer being made in town. Many locals recall working as pin boys at the bowling alley until Brunswick's first automatic pinsetters were installed.
The Thompson and White family partnership built the bowl in 1946. The first post office on Pioneertown was located inside the bowling alley. Movie extras for the westerns being filmed, would come to the bowling alley on their breaks in costume to get the mail.
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Pioneertown, California
Pioneertown is an unincorporated community of the Morongo Basin region of the High Desert in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is an 1880s-themed town developed as a shooting location for actors working on Western films and TV series which includes businesses and residences. The Mane Street Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The winding, 4-mile (6.4 km) drive northwest to Pioneertown from Yucca Valley has been designated a California Scenic Drive, and the area is now surrounded by both privately and federally protected lands. The Sawtooths are a small mountain range to the south, while Black Hill is to the north.
Actor Dick Curtis started up the town in 1946 as an 1880s themed live-in motion-picture set. The town was designed to provide a place for production companies to reside while also using their businesses and homes in movies.
Pioneertown's founders intended the area to be a residential area with Mane Street acting as both a movie set and the town's commercial district.
Hundreds of Westerns and early television shows were filmed in Pioneertown, including The Cisco Kid and Edgar Buchanan's Judge Roy Bean.
Dick Curtis, Roy Rogers and Russell Hayden were some of the original developers and investors. Gene Autry filmed his weekly show in town for five years, using the buildings and businesses as part of the film set.
The Pioneer Bowl is an operating bowling alley. The third building to be built in Pioneertown, Pioneer Bowl served as a recreational venue for residents, actors, and crew after filming. When western films were no longer the predominant genre of the Hollywood movie industry, Pioneer Bowl became a busy league venue for hundreds of bowlers in the high desert. In 1969, Pioneer Bowl enrolled more women's league bowlers from the citrus belt of California than any other bowling alley in Southern California. That year over 5,000 teams from around the world bowled in the International Women's Bowling Congress in San Diego. Only two documented 7-10 conversions have happened in 79 years and those were completed by women bowlers. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans made the front page of the local newspaper when he opened the bowl with a strike on lane one. He bowled a 211-game in his cowboy boots, with Evans bowling with him and over 200 townfolk watching.
Bowling leagues were an active part of American culture, and dozens of businesses had leagues at Pioneer Bowl, especially after western films were no longer being made in town. Many locals recall working as pin boys at the bowling alley until Brunswick's first automatic pinsetters were installed.
The Thompson and White family partnership built the bowl in 1946. The first post office on Pioneertown was located inside the bowling alley. Movie extras for the westerns being filmed, would come to the bowling alley on their breaks in costume to get the mail.
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