Alabama Hills by bmac62
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Zoom worthy.
When I was growing up during the 1940s-50s, Western Movies provided great inspirations for me and my boyhood pals. Our heroes were Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and the Lone Ranger. Tom Mix and Hopalong Cassidy were just a little before my time. But all their cowboy movies had something in common...fascinating, rough terrain featuring an abundance of huge potato shaped rocks with towering mountains behind them.
Yesterday we stopped overnight at an RV park just outside of Lone Pine, California. Much to my amazement the locations for many of those early western movies was a short five mile drive from where we were staying. Of course, I had to go...
The photo above doesn't do justice to the area where more than 400 movies, and TV series have been filmed since 1920, but it does give you an idea of what some of the countless rocks look like.
We'll have to come back here at some future date and photograph this place thoroughly. It is called "The Alabama Hills". But until we do, I'll just have to imagine hearing Roy Rogers and Dale Evans singing "Happy Trails" and watching the mysterious Lone Ranger and his faithful friend Tonto riding off into the sunset:-)
Comments (33)
tennesseecowgirl
beautiful shot, and it sounds like a fun trip.
debbielove
Being a Western fan as well, I can understand what you are saying mate.. Still its a wonderful shot, well taken.. Rob
Buffalo1
Now this is a cool pic of a place we are all familiar with. Wonder why its got that name? Sure doesn't look like 'Bama country to me.