Pioneertown

Though it was built as a real town in 1946, it was also built as a movie set by a group of investors who envisioned an 1870’s frontier town that functioned as a living movie set. Western stars including Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gail Davis (Annie Oakley), Duncan Renaldo (The Cisco Kid), Leo Carrillo (Pancho), Gene Autry, The Sons of the Pioneers (for whom the town was named), Jock Mahoney (The Range Rider) and Russell Hayden, (Hopalong Cassidy movie series) all walked these streets packin’ six guns.

Other movie greats including Barbara Stanwyck, Jackie Coogan, Dick Jones, Edgar Buchanan, Tom Skerritt and Barry Sullivan all made movies here from 1948 to 1998. The atmosphere of the ‘olde west’ lives on in the town that has kept most of the original buildings and has it’s own Pioneertown Posse. It is a treat, for young and old alike, to roam the streets; take photos; bowl in the bowling alley where the first strike was bowled by Roy Rogers, and relive an exciting part of Hollywood and Western Film history.
 

A Pioneertown Film Sampler...

Many TV Commercials have been shot in Pioneertown as well.