Thursday, February 16, 2012

Meanwhile back at the ranch -- Mushroom Rock


Meanwhile back at the ranch is a continuing series about "rock stars" (landscape features) on the old Iverson Movie Location Ranch in Chatsworth, California.  For more information see: http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2011/10/iverson-movie-location-ranch-chatsworth.html


Mushroom Rock (above center -- from "The Lone Ranger TV Show") no longer can be found in the Indian Hills area. It may have been demolished when the mobile home village was built, or it may just be buried in thick shrubbery next to a maintenance road in the mobile home village.  If remnants are still there they will be under the brush on the east side of the service road to the east of the recreation area in the Indian Hills Mobile Home Village.

At one time the saucer-shaped rock formation showed up in many of the chase scenes filmed on the lower Iverson Ranch.  

One of the main chase roads that led down to the Indian Hills plain below ran along the west side of Mushroom Rock, and a narrower path (photo below -- from "The Lone Ranger TV Show") ran along the opposite side.  Mushroom Rock was anchored by a small tree, as seen in the following screenshots.


Mushroom Rock can be seen in the following movies:

Corpus Christi Bandits (1945) starring Allan Lane (Iverson Ranch) Republic


Ghost Town Renegades (1947) starring Lash LaRue and Al St. John (photo above-looking south) PRC
Gold Raiders (1951) starring George O'Brien and Three Stooges (Iverson Ranch) United Artists


Great Stagecoach Robbery (1945) starring Bill Elliott - Republic
Heldorado (1946) starring Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes and Dale Evans (Chatsworth Trains) Republic
King of the Bullwhip (1950) starring Lash LaRue and Al St. John (Iverson Ranch) Western Adventures
The Oklahoma Kid (1939) starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart (Iverson Ranch) Warner Bros.
Overland Telegraph (1951) starring Tim Holt and Richard Martin (Iverson Ranch) RKO
The Rawhide Trail (1958) starring Rex Reason (Iverson Ranch) Universal
Rhythm of the Saddle (1938) starring Gene Autry (Iverson Ranch)(Corriganville) Columbia


Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942) starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello (photo above-looking north) (Iverson Ranch) Universal
Riders of the Rio Grande (1943) starring Bob Steele/Tom Tyler/Jimmie Dodd (Iverson Ranch) Republic
Rio Grande Raiders (1946) starring Sunset Carson - Republic
The San Antonio Kid(1944) starring Bill Elliott - Republic
Stagecoach Express (1942) starring Don “Red” Barry (Iverson Ranch) Republic


Stagecoach to Monterey (1944) starring Allan Lane (photo above) Republic


Sun Valley Cyclone (1946) starring Bill Elliott (photo above) (Iverson Ranch) Republic
The Texas Kid (1943) starring Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram
They Died with Their Boots On (1941) starring Errol Flynn (Iverson Ranch) Warner Bros.


The Trusted Outlaw (1937) starring Bob Steele (photo above) (Brandeis and Iverson Ranches) Republic
The Texas Kid (1943) starring Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram
Trail of Kit Carson (1945) starring Allan Lane (Iverson Ranch) Republic
Tucson Raiders (1944) starring Bill Elliott and George “Gabby” Hayes (Iverson Ranch) Republic
Vengeance of the West (1942) starring Bill Elliott and Tex Ritter (Iverson Ranch) Columbia


Wagon Wheels Westward (1945) starring Bill Elliott (photo above) (Iverson Ranch) Republic

"Lone Ranger TV Show"

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