My Dad and I took a trip down to what was once an Old West movie set town in Agoura Hills today called Paramount Ranch. It is about 76 miles from Santa Barbara and off of Kanan Rd. Quite a few classic old western movies have been filmed there including: “The Streets of Laredo” and “Gunsmoke”. Parmount Ranch was primarily used from 1920 - 1940 and still often used for tv series/commercials. The National Park Service took over Paramount Ranch in 1980 and reduced the actual movie set town quite a bit, but at least the land is preserved.

Paramount Ranch is not super popular as we were the only ones there but there was this really nice older volunteer that gave us a tour. He is there every Saturday from 9 - 2 and has a wealth of information including the game of guess which movie this set was shot in. He also has bucket loads of photos showing how one set can be changed for different movie needs. The only odd thing about him was he had this tiny dish of water on the ground and there were no dogs around. Perhaps it was for the lizards or squirrels.

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