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"