Old Tucson Studios, Tucson, AZ

Sunday, December 21 continued

Old Tucson Studios was our next stop.  Lots of movies and TV series were filmed here.  We were told that this place was still used even this year for a movie.

As we came in, this was the first building we saw.  There was a train that circled the perimeter of the grounds.

Here is the train that circled the grounds.

Down the dirt road was the Wheelwright Wagon Repairs and a small one room school house.

Here is a close-up of the wagon repair place.

This is the inside of the one room school house.  It was really narrow.

Walking down this wooden sidewalk seemed to be real.

More buildings for different movies or TV series.

They even created petroglyphs.  

This was the town courthouse.  One of the sheriffs was walking the street.  The lady in blue is the lady that ran the town saloon.  

Beautiful dress she is wearing.  She was the announcer for a dance by the saloon hall girls that we watched.

This is the hotel saloon where we watched the girls dance. 

Some kids and parents got a hay ride with Santa as he came into town.

This is the High Chaparral TV series set.  This is the house.  Below are several more pictures from this set.

Here is the barn from the High Chaparral set.  Look familiar?

This is a carriage and stage coach used on the series also.

These store fronts were also used in the series.  From the distance we are it looks pretty real.

There were 2 longhorn cows each with a calf in a corral near the High Chaparral house.

Anyone could get a ride in this stage coach.  We did not.  This was not at the High Chaparral set.

This church was at Old Tucson Studios also.

This is the street view where we are about to watch a gun fight.

Here is the start of the gun fight between the robbers.  These two just robbed the bank and are leaving.  See the bags "of money"?

Here is one of the robbers shooting at another robber.  See the smoke from the gun?

This princess was watching the gun fight and decided the gun fire was too loud so covered her ears.  Cute!

Next we went by the jail.  Dusty got incarcerated. Ha! Ha!

Here was a gallows used on sets.  It was blocked so no one could go up the stairs.  I guess they did not want any accidents.

This mission front was where we watched stunt men do some of their stunts.

This guy gets shot and falls forward.  He lands just behind a short wall where we assume an air mattress was for him to land on.  You can see the short 3-sided walls in the prior picture.

This guy is sliding down this rope from the roof of the mission.  He stopped in the middle of the yard in front of the mission.

This was another stunt where the ladder was pushed backwards and he fell behind the wood fence.  Notice how stiff he looks.  He looked that way all the way down.

This was the last of the shows we watched.  We left Old Tucson Studios and headed for an active mission called San Xavier Mission.