OLD TUCSON STUDIOS
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- On the Trail of Western Movies and TV shows. This still active movie lot for western TV and movies is a trip back thru your memories of the great movie westerns of the 40's to the 90's and TV shows we have seen.
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Fantastic video! I need to go soon. I have watched every episode of High Chapparral
I hear it has reopened under new managment finally. I hope to go back next month and enjoy it again while staying at Gilbert Ray campgrounds there.
@@doggonervn211 I’m trying to schedule a vacation there with my daughter’s family. I saw that it had closed and then reopened which is great.
I am so glad Old Tucson has reopened ! I was fortunate enough to visit there twice before the fire destroyed so much of it. I did visit once after it was rebuilt and was glad to see that some of the stuff in the entrance street escaped the fire. My first impression of the rebuild was sort of disappointing, although they did a great job, but missing many of the sets from Rio Bravo, Mclintock, and Joe Kidd, etc. Next to the old courthouse where Clint Eastwood filmed was Kansas Street where Little House on the Prairie filmed a lot of scenes. It was very sad to see the Reno in the shape it was in, but thankful it has been restored as well as possible. I think Will Smith had that done so he could used it in his film, the remake of The Wild Wild West. The old Mission was much more complete as it had an interior, but the redo looks great. When I used to go there the gunfights were held in the streets using the original sets. I think if would be great to be able to visit again someday as things get better with time. You did a great job capturing you visit ! Oh by the way...Tombstone is very commercialized but for those of us who enjoy Real western history, it is still a great place to visit. The Birdcage Theatre and the old Courthouse are priceless as well as the Boot Hill Cemetery and the current city cemetery. The trip out to the hill where the Schelflin monument is located is another interesting poing. And, the tour of the Toughnut Silver mine is great too if it is still in business. Thanks for posting this video.
I missed going back to seeing it when down there, now it has reopened. I till not miss it the next time down.
It breaks my heart to hear that Old Tucson Studios has closed permanently. I hope someone can open it back up. There were so many movies made here. It is a great place to visit if you love old western movies.
I agree! It was a great surprise to find it out in the desert on my trip. Having been raised in the 50s and 60's on westerns it was a real memory trip back in time.
Reopened
It’s been reopened, but the new owners are not off to a good start.
Thank's for doing this. ^^
An excellent trip down memory lane for past visit's to Old Tucson. ^^
Thanks for your feedback. Changing times bury our memories it seems and try to change our history and mythos.
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You're welcome. ^^
Agreed. 👍👍👍
Born and Raised in Tucson. Most people don't know this but almost half of the historic buildings, film sets and props were burnt to the ground in 1995. It was never the same. Broke my heart to see it destroyed. As a kid growing up, our family visited Old Tucson a few times a year and you could feel the history just walking through the old town movie set. All the old westerns were filmed there. And after that fire, it was never the same.
I heard about that fire. Wish l could have seen it in it's hay day. I hear it has reopened under new managment now and hope to go check it out soon.
I was in Tucson during the 1995 fire. I even bought a season pass, after they reopened.
My family and I used to live in Tucson.
OTS was our fave place to visit.
We know everyone there.
Yes, the mix of movie locations and history along with the buildings made it a special place to visit. Glad I did.
Took my kids to Old Tucson all the time in the early nineties. Had an annual pass. Had a large kid amusement section back then.
It was still a great place when I was there. I understand it has shut down permanently now after "the Plague!"
@@doggonervn211 I saw a report recently stating Old Tucson Studios has been purchased and will be re-opening, not sure when, but sounded like within a year.
Thanks for this, amazing!!!
It was a great place to wander thru and relive in memory only some of the best movies and TV shows, compared to the crap on TV today, lol. It may not be an "authentic" western town but represents parts of the west I have seen in other true western ghost towns I've found.
I predict that Old Tucson will come back after this damn pandemic.
It's a Tucson and quite frankly a National treasure.
As the years pass, going back in time to the days of the Wild West will be priceless!
I could not agree with you more on that point of view. Two years of "house arrest" by "this government" is two to many in this once free nation!
@@doggonervn211 I hear ya, brother.
Psh, nothing like the Wild West though. Cowboys, outlaws, saloons, and the dreadful standoffs/gunfights over a cardgame. ha, not to mention the good ol' bar fights. Oh, and dang, the saloon girls. Oh boy, that's another one to lookout for.
@Dog Gone RV'n There opening in October!! Come check it out there doing nightfall
@@crazydrummerofdoom I knew it would reopen! Thanks for the heads up!
Rio Bravo
It flows thru the move set, lol.
Unintentionally asmr
I would appreciate comments in English "words" not shorthand! 🙄
How can you keep saying this is far better than Tombestone , this is just a man made site, Tombestone is a genuine western town, even if it is commercialised
Sorry to disagree but the fact alone that it has been over commercialized thru movies, TV and the site itself has been altered for "Tourists", takes away from its feeling of "authenticity" for those of us who have seen much, much better ghost towns of the old west that have not been "over commercialized!" or "moved around." Try visiting Virginian City, NV for a true comparison. So many tourists think Tombstone is so "great", I just have to laugh knowing better. But to each their own.
@@doggonervn211 we are planing a trip next year, we live in the UK, we are hoping to see Deadwood, Dodge City and now you have recommended it we will include Virginia
Love tombstone so stop putting it down
Tombstone is not bad, OK. I think the best most historically interesting bldg. is the Birdcage Theater. Explore both floors. It really gives you a true sense of the real Tombstone.
I was there around 1969 or 1970
I last heard it was shut down for good now! What a shame.
Old Tucson is very cool but its a movie set. Tombstone is better because its real and its history is real. Comparing the 2 is like Comparing apples n oranges. Still liked your video though sir.
I've seen better and that is why I tire of the "commercialism" that invades these western towns. If not for commercialism I think Tombstone would have died a quiet death.
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Tombstone is awesome.. Its a real west town, not a studio or movie set... Don’t let him put Tombstone down.. Visit Tombstone, a lot of history..
Tombstone has been commercialized to death! the most historically impressive structure with more history in it than all of Tombstone is the Birdcage Theater main floor basement. If you want to see a true authentic ghost town little changed compared to commercial Tombstone, go to Virginia City, NV. or Bodie CA for the real thing. If you've only seen Tombstone an none or a few others, that's like comparing 60's cartoons to the new Avengers Movie!
Been, loved it
Tombstone is actually a town to where old Tucson is a movie set. It was built for the movie Arizona and abandoned. Then Bob Shelton found it in the 1950's and got John Wayne out to film Rio bravo and many others. I met my wife there back when the TV series The Young Riders was aired.32 years ago. I did security for whatever was being filmed. Great place to work at to bad they closed their doors do to the CCP virus.
it was a great place to visit and brought back the feel of the old west and the old Movies & TV shows "back then."
Nice video.
Thank you so much for your comment! it's nice to know people are watching my older videos too (when I was just starting out on you tube) and nice enough to give feed back. It is a very interesting (not to miss) place to visit with a great campground (Gilbert Ray) a 10-15 minute drive away. There are also other interesting near by destinations too. I hope you will explore my other videos and see how I have improved in my video editing. I started from knowing NOTHING about video editing and learned "under fire" while on the road making my early videos with a "temperamental lap top". LOL.
What days are they open how do you get tickets an price
They recently reopened under new ownership. I'd check their website for new up to date info. I plan to go back when in that area again.
You do realize Old Tucson is a film studio. A fake, not a real, actual town, like Tombstone. You do understand that, right?
I knew that, of course. Just that Old Tucson is a good representation of pieces of several actual ghost towns I've visited thruout the West - less commercialized than over blown Tombstone. The Birdcage Theater in TS is the best historical time capsule representing Tombstone' History In "my opinion."
@@doggonervn211 Been to both and yes, Tombstone has gone way too commercialized, but there is something really visceral about actually walking in the footsteps of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.
@@aldislerthat’s how I feel when I visit historic places like Normandy. I imagine what happened there.
So you were a little ambiguous but, do you think Tombstone isn't as fun as Old Tucson because Tombstone has become commercialized? Just wanna confirm, lol
There were only maybe two buildings in Tombstone I thought were of interest and that was the Birdcage which I thought was the best and most "historic building" and time capsule in Tombstone and Big Nose Kate's saloon. Other than that Tombstone has been commercialized to death in so many ways. Old Tucson Studios is not a "historic" place but has more of a variety of western era built buildings if only for the movies. Virginia City, Nevada beats them all hands down though.
@@doggonervn211 Virginia City, Nevada? Oh man I'm going to have to check that out then...you done any vids there?
@@doggonervn211 you missed the courthouse museum which has an amazing collection, then there is the Goodenough Mine that gives you an underground tour and the rosetree museum with original stuff from a founding family I am friends with.You missed a lot in Tombstone
Chill out with your dislike of Tombstone
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Hmm, I don't know what to say to that? What does that mean in English?
Well that was nifty...
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Sorry Mister but Tombstone is a real existing town and not a movie set and Old Tucson is sadly closed due to Corona and mismanagement while Tombstone is still alive
I'll give you that, that Tombstone is a existing old western town, my beef is it had been "commercialized" to death! Want to see a true example of a ghost town frozen in time, go visit Virginia City in Nevada. Puts Tombstone to shame.
But is it better than Tombstone? Haha
It appears to be under new management after being shut down for some time since I visited it last. I hope to visit it again when down there to see how it has changed. The best place in Tombstone in my non-alcoholic opinion is the Birdcage Theater.
But is it better than Tombstone?
Tombstone only had one shining light of un commercialized western history to me. The Bird Cage Theater and all its artifacts you could wonder thru and inspect and admire.
The most photographed locomotive in history is Sierra Railway #3 not the Reno
Maybe it was just for that region? Hollywood always blows thing out of proportion, lol.
Six complaints about Tombstone in the first half of your video! A bit excessive, don’t you think? Have you got an ex-wife who lives in Tombstone now, or something else like that? Must be…
LOL! To me Tombstone is over commercialized such that from what I have seen in my decades of trave is little more than a "tourist trap now!" The most interesting building in Tombstone for me was the Bird House Theater. It had a treasure trove of "history" more than a bar where someone got shot.
Too bad it had to close.
Hope they reopen it someday soon then. It was truly a great experience.
@@doggonervn211 The artifacts from Old Tucson are going to be housed at Trail Dust Town. A museum will open there. Pima County owns Old Tucson now. I hope that the county won't sell land to developers. I think some behind the scenes discussions to reopen in some capacity.
This is not better than Old Tombstone and has close down and shut its doors permanently.
Sad to hear it is closed down. Tombstone was to "commercialized for me. The best one thing about it was the basement of the Bird Cage Theater. Want a better ghost town, go see Virginia City, Nevada or Bodie, CA
hopefully someone will find a way to re-open it
Most of it burned down years ago, so sad to see how it looks fake.
Vandals get their kicks destroying what others enjoy. It's not like it was but still a nice representation of the past I think.
Like how u keep saying better than tombstone. Know the difference??? Real western cowboy town vs fake
In some ways they are the "same!" BOTH COMMERCIALLY, JUST "SHADOWS" OF THE WEST.
Not a real city with real history. Not as important as Tombstone unless we are talking movies
Tombstone for me had only 1 true relic of history not overly commercialized and that was the Bird Cage Theater and the museum below the first floor. Virginia City in Nevada puts Tombstone to shame as a So called Historic Ghost town too tough to die,
So this is pretty much a worthless video with very little info. he just keeps repeating that this studio was active from 1939 through the 90s and it's "...better than Tombstone." Blah blah blah...
Tombstone is an old west town but not truly a "ghost town" compared to non-commercialized ones like Bodie in California, ok. The best building with the most raw history in Tombstone in my opinion was the Bird Cage Theater.
How Much Do They Charge To Use As A Set?
I don't know. I heard the place was sold and bought by a new company and has reopened. Next time I travel down there I plan to check it out once more.
Tombstone is better. I’ve been to the site in Tucson. There’s nothing there just old buildings just second tombstone.
Old Tuson has reopened under new management and has added what you might be used to down in Tombstone, minus all the bars. I plan to return and see how they have changed and improve to better compete with over commercialized Tombstone.