The Ponderosa Ranch/ Bonanza House
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Back in August of 1999 I visited The Ponderosa Ranch in Incline Village Nevada. I shot some video at the time and it never went further than that... until a few years ago when I sat down and edited the footage and posted it here on RUclips as one of my "3 Minutes" videos. That video has since garnered over 50K views and is my most popular video. Now, since it's been so popular, I decided to expand on the subject and include a little bit of history about The Ponderosa Ranch attraction that was located at Lake Tahoe's Incline Village Nevada. I also re-edited my footage to shooting order.
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As a child, it was mandatory all the family gather around the TV & watch Bonanza every Sunday evening at 8PM. And not one word was to be spoken until a commercial came on. My parents did not miss any episodes. In fact, my father loved that show so much, he & my mother made a visit to the Pondarosa ranch tourist attraction back in the late 1960's. He was very disappointed to learn that it was only a set and not where the show was filmed. And it was a big letdown to learn Lake Tahoe did not border the southern side of the property as shown on a map in the show's introduction. The show was all through the magic of Hollywood. Back in the day when Chevrolet would run their "new model year" commercials that were up to 4 minutes long, or so. Gee, as a kid, I survived the Lawrence Welk show every Saturday evening followed by Bonanza every Sunday. And I grew up just fine.
It was the same way growing up in my parents home and we all turned out fine also. I think we need to get all of these shows back on tv and do it all over again. Make tv great again.
@@czechmate6916 We all learned values watching Bonanza & certain other TV shows. We learned right from wrong, how to conduct ourselves in society & interact with others. It was a very subtle way of teaching viewers & it worked. Each episode taught something to all of us.
It was a little bit different in my neighborhood. By 8:00 Sunday all of our parents would already be so liquored up that invariably there would have already been the real life drama of a wife beating, car through a yard, neighborhood brawl, or a toddler on the way to the ER due to some lack of supervision. Us kids in the cul-de-sac couldn't have watched bonanza if we wanted to. Saw the reruns a number of years later though.
@@pauljw7697 Yes sir it did. I hope everyone here has a wonderful day.
Back in the good old days, and the commercials weren’t many or very long
That ranch was fantastic and I visited there twice. The area was a slice of heaven and should have never been torn down 😢
When I was a kid, we only had one TV that was black and white. I remember my neighbor inviting my family over one Sunday night to watch Bonanza in color. When that NBC peacock opened up his feathers, I was in awe. I couldn't believe the difference.
We did the same, there was only 1 color TV ( big console model) in my neighborhood, Sunday nights were memorable with wholesome family entertainment .
I totally agree with my father bringing home a color TV. Global reality past my trips around town were never the same.
I was lucky. My dad owned and ran a TV and appliance store in the 1960’s to 1973. If I remember correctly, dad brought a color TV home as soon as they were available.
Our family did not even own a TV until about 1956/7. When I was on my own. I bought a color TV in 1967. I had to see Star Trek in color. I also bought it on credit. My first credit purchase.
Our TV growing up was a big boxy B&W Philco on a wrought iron swivel base so we could turn it to watch 'some shows' during dinner, but not very often.
It's really sad it was torn down 😢
It’s not torn down, just moved to a new location in Elko county
The ranch was relocated
Too bad the town and ranch wasn't around when Yellowstone came out, it would have been stood a better chance. What a beautiful location, somebody probably has a really nice McMansion on the property now.
Bonanza was a part of our growing up just as much as Saturday morning cartoons!
those were the days, times of simplicity. I am so greatful i grew up in that era
@@carolinehannah5188 Amen.................we lived the last best part of America! God Bless you!
Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry.
Wish I could have seen the Ponderosa.
@@timthompson8297 Hey can still watch Looney Tunes anytime we tune into the news nowadays!!
Not forgetting 'The High Chaparral'
still watch reruns when I can loved that show as a kid I'm now 66
So do my hubby and I, just a fun good show.
@@pamelag7553 So do my husband and I 😂
Pictures of those ranch brings back memories of a child when things good
Thanks!
@@RonHamill818
Not surprise that the Ponderosa "home" was Demolished because most of the "westerns crack" was FICTI😅NAL !...
#scared .
Agreed
Absolutely
Excellent show and better times. I'm 67 and have very fond memories...
There was anti-white messaging in those shows, anyone who showed any loyalty to the white race was depicted as a person who'd kill any non-white if he could get away with it. We see the result of that anti-white propaganda now do we not? "Diversity" means chasing down the last white person. White GENOCIDE is not a theoretical debate, it is a CRIMINAL charge.
@tav: "Better times?! That was during most of the Vietnam War. Tell that to the veterans and families of the fallen and disabled. Tell that to the 1.6 million Vietnamese that we slaughtered. Tell that to the Cambodians that died during Kissinger's and Nixon's 'secret' bombings. Gove me a break.
@@really2345
I'm well aware of that. My brothers were there. But we have had many wars before that and even since then, and you're bringing up one issue (a war issue) and ignoring all the other issues.
It was a better more simpler time and with better morals. Especially on T.V.
and especially when you consider the crap that's going on today and the on T.V. shows and even in the schools.
All the way up to the colleges. Which reminds me of the crap on colleges from the hippie days...were you one of them protesting then to ?
Families were more close and talked more, ate dinner together more. Instead of everybody with their head in their phones and in their @sses...like today.
Sheesh ! 🙄 😊
@@really2345- Hmm, your use of the "we slaughtered" is telling in some ways. Were you there doing your duty or an onlooking draft card burner from the protesting cheap seats?
Mstrdiver - US Army - 1973 to 1995
@@mstrdiverWell said, I share your sentiments.
Thank you so much for this wonderful memory. I am of age that I grew up with the Cartwright's. Not only was the scenery spectacular, but so were the actors of this series.....It was sometimes a little silly, but wouldn't we enjoy some that innocence in our world today. RIP Cartwright Family.
❤
It’s sad to think they’re all gone.
Where's Hop Sing cooking in the kitchen and bustling around the dinner table?
I grew up watching that show. As a 3 year old, I even got to sit in Little Joe's lap. I know that I am 63, but it breaks my heart that it is all gone, just a memory in the minds of the few of us left who remember.
I agree. It breaks our hearts how the world has changed. And even though I'm getting closer to the end of my life, I would not have changed the opportunity to have lived through those times!
I'm on the younger side and Grew up to reruns I am 43 this September, I do remember the series and in a way I am the last generation and one of the youngest who would remember such things. I am however passing it on to my children who have found love in some of the old shows. I have shown them Gun smoke and the Rifleman and stuff that was not full of trash, but had messages of hope and made you think about morality. I hope you have found peace in retirement or soon coming retirement if you get it. the good days of America so far seem to be far behind us. So I shall mourn her passing and share the memories with my children in hopes of keeping that part of America alive at least in memory. God bless you and may you have peace in your sunset years.
I lived in Los Angeles as a small child. My dad had a Mexican restaurant. The cast of Bonanza used to come in. I don’t remember them but I do remember sitting on a man’s lap when my dad tended bar. We moved to Florida and I went to see 20,000 leagues under the sea. Imagine my surprise when I recognized the man whose lap I had sat on. It was Kirk Douglas! I’m 62 years old.
@@pamelablume1637
Wow! Children like us love our heroes and our parents and heroes from our character. Which the lack of, especially decent parents, explains present culture values, crime and corruption.
I’m 63 and have the series on DVD and love watching the old shows. Great TV back then now everything is garbage
THANK YOU RON. I NAMED MY YOUNGEST SON LORNE AFTER (MR. GREEN RIP). HOSS WAS MY FAVORITE AND HE WAS A TRUE GENTLE GIANT MAN. BUT I MUST ADMIT I LIKED IT WHEN HE WOULD KICK BUTT IN FIGHTS. ALSO I HAVE BEEN TO THE LAKE LOS ANGELES WHERE PARTS OF THE PROGRAM WAS FILMED AS WELL AS INCLINE VILLAGE AND I BELIEVE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A NATIONAL LANDMARK AND ON THE REGISTRY AND PRESERVED FOR ALL TO ENJOY. THIS PROGRAM DEFINITELY MADE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE AND I HAVE SIGNED PHOTOS FROM THE CAST WHICH MY FAMILY CHERISHED TO THIS DAY AND WE HAVE THE PROGRAMS WE WATCH FROM TIME TO TIME AND ALWAYS ON THANKSGIVING. I MISS THE SIMPLER PLACE AND TIME OF THAT ERA.
Sure do miss the days of watching this show and wishing to be a cowboy. Now at 48, good clean wholesome tv show such as this and alike are gone. Miss the old days.
Boy did that bring back memories. I am now almost 74 years old and wish that more shows like that were around.
Wish they had not torn it down.
That had a zero cost benefit.
It wasn’t torn down just moved to a new location in Elko county Nevada
Auch in Deutschland 🇩🇪war und ist immer noch eine Kult-Serie . Ich liebe diese alte Serie die mich an meine Kindheit erinnert . Und an meinem Vater der nun auch schon über 30 Jahre tot ist , der den Hoss sehr ähnlich sah . An alle Bonanza Schauspieler R.I.P. 🕊️🕯️🙏😢 🥀 ihr gehörtet damals zu unserer Kindheit....Danke !
Thank you for sharing those thoughts and a love for better days and simple life.
Didn’t realize it was a big thing in Germany as well . I know Westerns were huge in Great Briton.
@@Thomas-qr3zv
It sure was, and not only for us kids.
Same goes for Lassie, Flipper and Skippy, the Aussie show.
And now it's all history, long forgotten by many, and we young kids are old men.
Life is indeed very short.....and time very fast😉
Cheers
from Berlin
We lived near the Incline Village Ponderosa, enjoyed going there many times and I met Lorne Green.
It’s sad to think they tore this down!!! I Love bonanza until this day!!
I grew up watching Bonanza as well as Wonderful world of Disney, The Big Valley, Mutual of Omaha’s wild kingdom, Gunsmoke, The Andy Griffith show, and many more classic shows. At 66 years old, this makes me sad these great shows are a thing of the past, most had a lesson to be learned.
Great list! Add Lassie, My Friend Flicka, Disney and The Big Valley starring Ms. Barbara Stanwyck, to it.
I used to love to watch The Wonderful World of Disney every Sunday night. They used to have some great little movies on there.
Rifleman.. Pa, Pa
I flew out to California in 1971 to be best man at my buddy's wedding (we are both Vietnam vets)... one of the places we visited was the Bonanza ranch at Incline Village... I remember I had Hoss burgers and beans! Here's the cute part.... I had a soft serve on a cone, as I was walking up the pathway there was a stone wall, and on that wall was a chipmunk. I stopped right at that spot... The fearless creature then jumped down off the wall, stood right at my feet and begged for a piece of my cone! No lie! I gave it to him, he immediately jumped up back on the wall... Lo and behold, unbeknownst to the little guy, a squirrel was lurking above him looking at that piece of cone. He jumped down and stole the cone from the chipmunk! Again, this is a true story!!
First, thank you for your service and second, thank you for sharing your cone with the chipmunk. You are a blessing to this world.
We named our property the Ponderosa because of our trees..... and I liked the show! Our skid loader is called HOSS
One of the few good things to ever come out of hollyweird.Their shows included solid moral values that we kids put into action every day.All under a backdrop of a wild and free america in it's early days.Solid gold!👏👍🧙♂️
I grew up in Reno, we knew the owners family. Been there often until it closed! Great memories!
same age, seems odd we're still here while everything we grew up with is gone
I wonder what the owner went on to do, and where is he now. I'd like to watch a biography about him, and I'm glad he was a part of TV history
So sad the tearing down of the Ponderosa 😢 a Classic show. May they all rest in peace 🙏
I was 9 when the show first came on. My Dad loved it, so I loved it. So if no one minds, I will live on knowing the Ponderosa was the only location ever used, and the ranch really did exist.
As a 15 year old teenager I visited the ranch at incline village with my parents and it was by far one of the best times we shared together.
Bonanza was the first TV show I remember seeing. My family did not own a TV until 1964.
As a child in the 1960's, TV viewing was the same each week. After Bonanza on Sun eve, we watched Gunsmoke on Mon eve, Red Skelton on Tue eve, Hawaii Five-O Wed eve & add to that Kojak, Mission Impossible, High Chaparral & a few others to round-out the week. It's hard to believe the (2) stars of Gunsmoke & Mission Impossible, James Arness & Peter Graves, were brothers. Back then, the TV repairman made house calls. I liked how the TV repairman would diagnose the problem. He simply kept replacing tubes until it worked. Many of the repairman from Sears & Roebuck worked on ALL appliances bought from Sears. It didn't matter if it was a TV, a washer, dryer, dishwasher, whatever, he could fix them all. Imagine getting that type of "in home" service today!
Wow! I did not know James and Peter were brothers. Thanks for tidbit.
I’m 62 years old and I remember all of those shows!
I watched Hawaiian Eye just for Connie Stevens.
One show to add to your Sunday evening viewing list is Walt Disney.
@@mstrdiver Yes! And Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.
I saw the first episode at a friend of my moms who was well enough off to afford a color tv. I can still conjure up the thrill of watching a tv show IN COLOR for the first time! WOW! As an adult I ended up living at Lake Tahoe for a number of years not far from Incline Village.
My grandpa loved this show. I have fond memories of watching Bonanza with him when I was kid.
Thanks for the Memories! I soon will retire from Paramount Pictures, after 43 years, and I have been blessed to be a small part of it's history.
Retirement should be fun for you. Say, do you know Gene Gross, or Joan Warner 🤔. I haven't heard from them in 3-3-1/2 years 🤔
Thank you for your service.
I remember going there with my dad in the 70’s when I was a kid. My mom still has that tin cup. 😊
I've just got to say. That this is sad as hell. I would have loved to seen this before it was destroyed. But thank for sharing this with us. 👍
Brings back memories, we took our children there in late 80's with that and show the memories come . I use to watch Bonanza every Sunday night with my Grandpa who never missed an episode. Gone are the great old days!
I grew up with Bonanza watching. Thanks for your video.
Thanks!
@@RonHamill818thanks for the video. Watched bonanza as a kid and always wanted to live in that house. Still would if I could.
@@snydedon9636 so would I.
I went to The Ponderosa back in the mid-1970's on our annual family vacation to Lake Tahoe. They had a guided horseback riding tour which had spectacular views of Lake Tahoe. Also there were hiking trails where I remember filling my Bonanza tin cup with rushing fresh water from snow melt. It was a very magical place for a 9 year old! Thank you for the video, sure brings back a lot of great memories.
As a kid in the 60's, I usually had the monopoly on the one black and white TV we owned. That is except when my father wanted to watch it. All he ever watched was the evening news, Gunsmoke and Bonanza. I also got to visit the Ponderosa house back in the early 90's.
My wife and I stopped there on our honeymoon in 1984. Remember it well.
Might of seen you there my wife and I where there on our honeymoon in 84 also in August
I was there in the summer of 1985
You should remember it well! It was your honeymoon after all!
Wow, this brings back memories of my youth. Now they have all passed.
Went there with my family when I was a teenager and remember having a Hosburger. It was a cool place and I was a fan of the TV show. It's too bad that it's gone now, only a memory in my minds eye.
When you and I are dead along with our generation almost no one will ever see or know Bonanza ever existed. Just like Napoleon, Charlemagne, Leonidas, Alexander, Einstein, Bell, Pasteur, Heston, Wayne, Weissmuller, Eisenhower, Reagen, Goldwater, Patton, Bradley, Rommel, Yamamoto, etc.
Nothing learned from past history to guide future history. A society living only for the present is a soon extinct species. A species not driven by imagination, long term progress and achievements is like dodos, dinosaurs and naysayers. Worth basically nothing but rubbish and old stones. 😮
Yep, part of our lives when we watched the classics. Oh well, everything changes as we will be gone too. Life is good, enjoy it while you can.
Have been there many times!! Was stationed at Travis AFB and went to Reno most week ends!! Stopped at the Ponderosa most times and Had Hoss Burgers!! Loved Lake Tahoe!!
So very glad that we got to visit it before it was torn down. Last time there we had "Hoss" burgers and "Little Joe" fries. My wife and I visited many times.
I bought a home in the 60’s in the map area shown on the TV show Bonanza off the Mt. Rose Hwy. back in the pine trees on the Callahan Ranch. Had a solid wrought iron sign 3 feet tall and 12 feet wide mounted on telephone poles at the entrance to my property with lettering spelling out “LITTLE PONDEROSA”. Lots of fond memories 😊
I still watch this series today and love it. I lived in northern CA for 10 years and made a point of going to Virginia City NV, Nevada City CA, Lake Tahoe and other places identified in the Bonanza series. What a shame that the Incline Village location was demolished. They just needed to reimagine that place to keep the Bonanza legacy alive. All these theme parks need a refresh to continue. Sad.
I lived in Incline Village for 12 years starting in 1968, I went to Ponderosa in 69 for my first time and so many times in the years following that I couldn't tell you, since I lived there I knew all the tricks to get in and being a kid I didn't care about rules, I snuck in, never paid. loads of fun.
We took our two boys there a few times in the early 1990's and we all had a great time. Tahoe has changed so much since then it is sad.
My Mom inspected and packaged the first hats that the Cartwrights wore on the TV series. They were made in Adamstown Pa at Bollman's hat factory.
Wow!
Actually I had a hat maker in Massachusetts make my hat modeled on the “western” hats of the day. That’s the hat that’s in the video.
The first show I saw in color on a neighbor’s tv in 57 or 58. Will never forget it. Wonderful family show - thanks for reminding me!
67 or 68 was when ABC, NBC, and CBS made all their shows in color. Batman was my fav.
Sunday nights as a kid! 7:30 Wonderful World of Disney. 8:30 Wasn't always the same show. I remember "Branded" with Chuck Connors. 9:00 Bonanza! Then, off to bed for school on Monday morning.
Growing up in San Francisco, it was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins, then the The Wonderful World of Disney followed by Bonanza. It was a great way to end the weekend.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 Same TV schedule as yours for me as an elementary school child in Omaha, Nebraska, but it started at 6:30 pm. Those Sunday evening shows were the only saving grace of those bitter-cold Winter nights, dreading having to get up in the cold dark for school on Monday.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 I think you are right. M of O was before Disney. I completely blanked out on that until you mentioned it. Half hour, right? Old Marlin would always send Jim Fowler into the most dangerous situations first.
OK, how many of you, and you parents, watched Ted Mack's Amateur hour on Saturdays and the Lawrence Welk show with the "pop" of the champagne bottle at the beginning of the theme song after Lawrence welcomed everyone? And they call this TV now-a-days!
@@MoonMan1956 My dad always said that while Jim was doing all the work, Marlin was back in the blind hitting on his bottle of booze. lol
@@LuckyBaldwin777 Hahaha Sounds like something my dad would say! Was your dad a depression and WWll dad?
I was fortunate enough to see this place around 20 years ago, what great memories, I have a triangle dinner bell from the blacksmith shop on the site there
Cool
My family and I went to the ranch in the summer of 1970. Is was full and we did not get a chance to go in. I moved to Lake Tahoe in late 2004 and was excited to finally go to the ranch. My family had always watched Bonanza on TV and even bought a Bonanza travel trailer prior to our trip in the 70's. To my dismay, after all of those years, the ranch had just been closed for development. My loss.
We visited the House in 1984, great to see!
We went there in 2000 & 2002! Even our kids loved it.!
I think Bonanza has one of the very best show openings. The burning map idea was great.
It was a flipping TV show, yet even watching it from the other side of the world at the time, what good memories it brings back.
Gone with the wind..great show and history...
I went to the ranch on my honeymoon 36 years ago. We received the tin cup and put pennies and little things in. I couldn’t believe how tiny Ben’s office was in the house. It sure looked big when watching Bonanza on TV. Thanks for the memories.
Probably my dad's favorite show -- we watched it in Spanish!!! Even though it's been over 40 years, I can still hear my dad's excitement... "Vamos--va a empezar Bonanza!!"
I went to ranch as a little girl, I'm now 61. I loved it! Watch the show each week.
Yes, I've visited that place once as a child.
We also did a little gold mining back behind there in a little sluice box. I did have the metal cup for a long time, and then it turned to rust now, 62, and those were the days
I remember going there in 1976 when I was 8 yrs old and thinking it was the coolest place I’d ever been to! Very sad to see it go. 😢
My sons and I backed packed from Virginia City to the Ponderosa Ranch House and back in 2014. The fantasy of owning that land is amazing. The truth is that all of the Incline Village forests were already in mines in Virginia city. Clear cut for mining timber support and fire wood for steam generation cleared the entire region of trees in 1867.
One of the good wholesome shows gone the way of the Doe-Doe bird…..sad…but Lake Tahoe still holds its majestic beauty.
Thanks for sharing these wonderful memories. ❤😘
Love this show whenever i can watch it ❤️❤️
I still watch bonanzas one of my favorite westerns
I visited the Ponderosa ranch 4 times when I was growing up. Back in the late 60's. It was a great experience walking around where they filmed Bonanza. I had a silver tin cup that I got when my mom bought me a coke from the saloon. Lake Tahoe was very beautiful lots of fresh air. Lots of pine trees. The good old days.
The Big Bonanza by C.B.Glasscock is a GREAT book! Found my copy on ebay. He also wrote one on Tonopah and Goldfield, another on Butte Montana's copper boom.
My Texas family visited the inlaws in Sacramento. We went to the Ponderosa in about 1996. We l9ved it, my husband and I growing up in the 60's. I'm glad we have pictures.
Excellent video, thank you so much for sharing it.
was there in 1982.....GREAT MEMORIES!!!
1968 had my first summer job for Bill. Good times. So sad they demolished it. Bonanza was my favorite show and I considered it a privilege to work at The Ponderosa Ranch ( although never got to see any of the stars )
Congratulations Ron. Thank you, for presenting us, whith the story of this beautiful series and it characters wich marked my beloved childhood. I'm from Brasil. I'm 58 years old. I watched Bonanza from 1.972/73. Good times. Longing.
Thank you!
As a kid my father and mother took me to incline village and to the ponderosa house. The house didn’t have an upstairs. Good memories.
It's made me tear drops. I always remomembered all the Great stars in the stories. A;ways in my memoiries to the rest of my life. I am an Asian old lady, but love the Cowboy movies.
Was there in the 80's, had a Hoss Burger and a sarsaparilla in the logo metal cup for lunch.
I wonder if it was made by Hop Sing.
I’m not sure which tv show my dad and I watched more of..Bonanza or Gunsmoke,,,but I do know they were both in the hundreds 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Went at about 10 years old, still have pictures. Really awesome place.
Grew up watching every episode of that show.
My mom and I went there in the mid 70s. I think I still have my souvenir tin cup packed away somewhere 😀.
Went there with my family as a child 1982. Great memory. Thanks !
The crazy thing I remember as a young lad was the map showing Virginia City. Heck, living on the Gulf Coast and never being out west I always thought they were talking about the state of Virginia. It wasn't until I visited Lake Tahoe some years back that I found out, beautiful place.
Funny when I was growing up on the Gulf coast I thought the same thing. Btw I’m still on the Gulf coast.
@@czechmate6916 Not to mention the other western, The Virginian, that ranch was located in Wyoming. Just figured Virginia had mountains and was frontier land at one time.
@@thomasm9139 I had forgotten about that show.
Thanks for the video, brought back so many good memories on Sunday nights with my dad watching Bonanza.
Love it then& still watch all the reruns to this day.
I have a Bonanza map hanging in my bedroom.
Went to Nevada in 2016 hoping to visit Ponderosa & found out it was torn down & was very disappointed but I got to visit Virginia City
I am 72 & will continue to watch my favorite TV show.
My husband and I got to visit it. Wonderful time..
Thank you for this. I never got to go I was too young when the plans were laid to go there. I grew up to the show and while many I knew had gone there I never got to go. in many ways this helped me close the door and say goodbye to a part of my childhood I never had the chance to say goodbye to. Thank you so much. I pray you are blessed.
Watching Bonanza episodes with my parents in the late sixties/early seventies are part of my earliest childhood memories. In 1990 I made a trip through four states, one of them being Nevada. It was only after I returned home in The Netherlands that I realised how close I had come to visiting the region of Lake Tahoe. There was a restaurant that had all of the four actors' photos in the hall and I was just thinking the owner of the restaurant must be a big fan. I own at least 10 of the 14 seasons on DVD and watch an episode every now and then in my own blockhut.
I visited as a kid in 1983 or so, I remember the big fireplace and red leather chairs. I had the famous map on the wall of my bedroom for years. I'm 51 now
I've still got my Ponderosa tin cup! I put change in it. Loved visiting this attraction
My family visited Bonanza in the early 1980's. It was a great place. We went horse back riding there after touring the town.
Growing up watching this show. It was a great western.
I was there with my family in the late 60's. I was so young I only remember the front of the ranch itself. We have a photo standing in front of it. Thank you for sharing what is, for me a memory of much better times.
I visited the ranch in late 70’s I really enjoyed it as I was a big fan of the show growing up in 50’s n 60 s … now we enjoy Teeter on Yellowstone ❤️🙏🎥
I'm glad that I got to see it back in 91.
It so sad 😢 to see that icon disappeared 😭
It’s still starting just moved to a different location in Elko county Nevada
That opening theme music and burning map always got my attention, I especially liked the first 6 seasons. One of my favorite episodes was Hoss and the Leprechauns.......
Thanks for posting. I knew Bill anderson for many years, spent a lot of time over the years at the ranch. It broke a lot of peoples hearts in norhern Nevada when it got sold, then torn down. It was a part of history for us and the lake. I still miss it and always will. Thanks.
We used to go there often for their Chuck Wagon Breakfast! The kids loved it!
Thank you for this. I still watch Bonanza every day.
That's something that should have been advertised. This would be a great trip for a family.
"""Ponderosa Ranch Western fun for everyone. "" That was the long time commercial that advertised visiting the ranch.
Thanks for sharing…!