It's located on the Norfolk Southern Railway and currently operates as a museum. The Guntersville Railroad Depot, which was built in , currently operates as a railroad museum. Through artifacts, maps and photos, museum visitors get a glimpse of what the railroad life was like between the late s to early s. During Montgomery's railroad days, this historic depot was a major hub for passenger trains. In , rail service ended. Alabama In Your Inbox spinner. Thank you! You'll receive your first newsletter soon!
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She enjoys discovering new places and currently calls North Alabama home. Below: Screen depictions of Deadwood Camp, first in the WB Doris Day musical Calamity Jane [below left] [note how the WB western-street backlot buildings are too tall here], and [below right] the tv series Deadwood ; sequel upcoming , which uses the old Melody Ranch street set [est.
The 2nd shot, of the wagon train arriving, is a behind-the-scenes still - note the traffic light. Dodge City, Kansas was another famous cowtown, and in a sense the most depicted onscreen as it was the setting of the longest-running prime-time TV drama in American history: CBS's Gunsmoke — As this was such a longrunning series, Dodge was portrayed by a range of town sets [list here ].
The screenshot here is from the opening titles, showing Marshall Matt Dillon facing off with a nameless bad guy on a deserted main street, and shooting him though we never see the outcome. Earlier, it had been the setting of the Errol Flynn Technicolor western, Dodge City , which being a WB production would have been shot on the WB backlot western set. Abilene, Kansas was another 'cowtown' which boomed briefly when it became a railhead for shipping Texas cattle northeast.
Wikipedia: "From to , the Chisholm Trail ended in Abilene, bringing in many travelers and making Abilene one of the wildest towns in the west. Below, left and right: Hollywood depictions. Hover mouse over image below to read opening narration. Below, right: The 'Abilene' seen at the end of the Red River about the first such trail drive from Texas north may have been purpose-built it resembles the town in the lithograph ; the 2nd image [mouse over] of a herd being driven down main street shows Paramount's western set, and is from the The Virginian.
Some were made by syndication outfit Ziv TV, like Tombstone Territory , about a pre-Earp fictional town sheriff of Like many of these series, it seems to have used the WB lot, seen below in a screenshot from the Westworld.
Studios have a variety of other backlot street-sets suitable for this, with names such as 'Midwestern Street'. The Shootist is set in in a Carson City, Nevada, which now has electricity, telephones and horse-drawn tramcars. It's portrayed onscreen by a combination of the real Carson City's preserved heritage buildings and the 'Midwestern' street on the WB main backlot.
For Heaven's Gate , inspired by a real s range war, a brickwork town representing Casper, Wyoming, was built - though more resembling the real Caspar of the early 20C. Right: The Shootist's scene-setting shot, and [mouse over] the railroad depot town of Caspar, Wyoming built for Heaven's Gate.
The most recent use has been in the ongoing Westworld tv series. The first such is credited to pioneering western producer-director Thomas Ince, who in built 'Inceville' which occupied more than one site, and saw more than one western town built. Almost every major studio had their own western street at the back of their main lot in LA, and usually another one farther out which they leased from private ranch owners.
Few such standing sets remain as the western boom subsided at the end of the 60s, and one by one they either burnt down or were bulldozed. The few that survived have done so by opening up to the public as heritage-tourist sites, as with the just-lost Paramount Agoura Ranch site, which operated from on.
Dormitories for boys and girls were built in Later the school was changed from a normal school to a high school, Hale County High School, by legislative act. Thornton as the editor. Later the name was changed to the Hale County News.
Another tornado damaged portions of the town in The elementary school was demolished. Once again the citizens, determined to maintain their community, rebuilt houses and the school that reopened in the fall. The pageant was written by a Methodist minister, Robert L. Haygood and was enacted by local residents. Music was provided by members from local church choirs. At its peak, attendance was numbered in the thousands. This determination to survive is still a strong trait of the people who call Moundville home.
They continue to work at maintaining a slow-paced, safe environment for all its citizens. And they continue to compile a long and rich heritage. Information for history was obtained from papers written by Lewis McCray, Joann Marler, Annie Dominick Lavender, Frank Willis Barnett of the Birmingham News, and several unidentified papers written by high school students over the years.
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