CALICO GHOST TOWN
Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at
6:08 am
Once again we’re pac
king for another trip. This one is to Southern California.
I don’t know how may of you are aware of an Old West venue in Barstow, California called Calico Ghost Town. Calico is neat Old West town that was originally a mining town. We’ll be stopping by there and do a conversation for our weekly show about the unique origins of the town and what it is today.
Then we’ll be heading on over to another town you may just have heard about. It’s called Hollywood. We’ll be going to the Golden Age Theater and see a performance of a western old time radio show. This should be fun and interesting.
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That performance of an old western radio show sounds like a lot of fun. Several years ago my daughter bought me a fairly large collection of CDs with old time western radio shows. I’m still working my way through them. I almost never hear anyone talking about those old shows anymore, but to me, to this day, Brace Beamer and William Conrad were just as great western stars as Clayton Moore and James Arness were. A few years ago I got to visit the Autry Museum of Western Heritage. At the time they had an exhibit on old time radio westerns. Sadly, just about everybody but me seemed to walk right past it. Hmm. Maybe it is time to turn off the TV and take out my CD player.