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In the wild west
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Compare the car chase scenes and wide panoramic second unit shots of off studio lot locations on Mission Impossible, Cannon, and Rockford Files with what you see today.

Where it is flat, strip malls and apartments predominate.....the hills and dales are all subdivisions.....

Particularly on Rockford Files you can see the before and after wildfire results from season to season.

It is easy to see why mud/landslides are an ever present danger. On the telly, the hills look like mounds of loose, rocky soil.
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Gunsmoke never did look like Dodge to me. Too many hills and trees.
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One thing about living out here is there are movie and TV settings all over the place.
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Every time we revisit previous locations where we once lived (usually many years later), my wife doesn't recognize where we are - until she sees a street (name) sign.

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We retired and moved to SW Utah from Old Savages town. There are old western movie sets here too, especially around Kanab. The wife and I were east of Kanab up Johnson Canyon looking for a trail to ride with our ATV. We came up on a old western town movie set I didn't know about. Some old rough buildings and a gallows! Another couple were there and hamming it up, He had his wife or GF sticking her head in the noose! I see Gunsmoke was filmed there too.
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The Long Branch Saloon is in those pics I believe.
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The photo of ave de los arboles. Is fake. I just drove it 90 minutes ago and it was packed with cars.
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Old Savage wrote: Tue Jul 16, 2019 1:24 pm The Long Branch Saloon is in those pics I believe.
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piller wrote: Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:46 am Gunsmoke never did look like Dodge to me. Too many hills and trees.

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I have seen some good believable story's on Gun smoke but many stupid ones. To start with they usually have bumpkins dressed in rags along with hats that look like they robbed them from a 150 year old grave and then threw them in a hay baler. It and most other westerns like show towns and ranch buildings look like they were already a 150 years old at the time a 150 years ago they are trying to depict. The westerns have always went to both extreams in dress, never realistically in the middle. When I was a kid the hero`s, Gene Autry, Roy Rodgers and Hoppy wore gaudy designer shirts etc. Now they like to dress the actors up in torn shot up hats etc. The indian war hoops are always in a high falsetto voice yet most either speak the kings english better than me or the opposite of someone that spent a half hour trying to learn english.
I used to work with a close friend (Russell Wiggins) who was on several episodes of gunsmoke. The only one I seen him in was good! (Town in chains) He played a U.S. Cavalry trooper and was demonstrating shooting a sharps. He did a good job and should have as Russ was in the special forces in Nam before I knew him.. He also was on the Los Angeles county sheriff`s dept.
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Booger Bill wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:38 pm I have seen some good believable story's on Gun smoke but many stupid ones. To start with they usually have bumpkins dressed in rags along with hats that look like they robbed them from a 150 year old grave and then threw them in a hay baler. It and most other westerns like show towns and ranch buildings look like they were already a 150 years old at the time a 150 years ago they are trying to depict. The westerns have always went to both extreams in dress, never realistically in the middle. When I was a kid the hero`s, Gene Autry, Roy Rodgers and Hoppy wore gaudy designer shirts etc. Now they like to dress the actors up in torn shot up hats etc. The indian war hoops are always in a high falsetto voice yet most either speak the kings english better than me or the opposite of someone that spent a half hour trying to learn english.
I used to work with a close friend (Russell Wiggins) who was on several episodes of gunsmoke. The only one I seen him in was good! (Town in chains) He played a U.S. Cavalry trooper and was demonstrating shooting a sharps. He did a good job and should have as Russ was in the special forces in Nam before I knew him.. He also was on the Los Angeles county sheriff`s dept.
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