RANCH LIKE A `MELODY' TO NEWHALL FAMILY; PATRIARCH, REST OF FAMILY KEEP FAMILIAR WESTERN LOT IN TUNE WITH THE TIMES.Byline: Victoria Giraud People and Places The Veluzat family has been part of the local scene since the 1930s when Paul Veluzat bought a cattle ranch in Haskell Canyon. Paul, a spry An application framework from Adobe for building rich Internet applications using HTML. Spry takes the tedium out of writing AJAX code and also includes routines for creating animation effects and building widgets. For more information, visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry. 99, still keeps tabs on his sons, Renaud and Andre, who own and run the Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio. The ranch is very much a family affair; Renaud's daughter Shantel, 24, and Andre's son Paul, 22, manage a property rental business on the ranch. Shantel, who lives in Hopalong Cassidy's old home on the ranch, acts as a liaison with the studios that film on the property. Renaud and Andre bought the ranch in 1990 from Gene Autry, who had owned it since 1952 and sold it when his famous horse, Champion died. One of their first plans was to rebuild the Western street, which burned in 1962. The street ``dates back to old, old movie towns from the '30s, '40s and '50s. You've seen that Western street on TV for years and years. It's pretty amazing,'' Renaud said. A few years ago, ``Gene Autry came over, and started telling us stories about the old town,'' Renaud reminisced. ``He wanted to see how we were redoing the Western street. It brought tears to his eyes. He hadn't been on the property for eight years, and couldn't believe how we'd put it together.'' Autry pointed out an area on the street where he'd ridden Champion around a certain corner about 700 times during filming. Lots of filming gets done on the ranch for feature films and television. After the reconstruction was done, some of the first productions included Jeff Bridges Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and musician. Biography Personal life Bridges was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Dorothy Dean (Simpson) and actor Lloyd Bridges. starring in ``Wild Bill'' and Bruce Willis Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role as John McClane in the Die Hard series. in ``Last Man Standing.'' The new TV series, ``The Magnificent Seven,'' which is being produced by Walter Mirisch, the producer of the original movie, is made at the ranch. Last month, the fifth annual Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival was held at the ranch. It drew about 25,000 people and was ``well received,'' Renaud said. Running the ranch is ``a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun,'' Renaud observed. Renaud didn't start out wanting to run a movie ranch A movie ranch is a ranch that is at least partially dedicated to being used as a site for the production of motion pictures. Movie ranches first came into use in southern California in the 1920s when westerns had become increasingly popular. ; he was much too interested in music. He and Andre play guitar, and during a visit to relatives in Nashville, Tenn., when they were teens, they had an opportunity to play on the Grand Old Opry. He remembers being on stage with such country legends as Little Jimmy Dickens, Hank Snow and Floyd Cramer Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933 – December 31, 1997) was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville Sound." Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Cramer grew up in the small town of Huttig, Arkansas, teaching himself to play the piano. . At Hart High School Hart High School may refer to:
"POP," as it was soon nicknamed, was a joint venture between CBS and Santa Anita Park. in Santa Monica. Although it was a great opportunity, driving to Santa Monica from Newhall six days a week was made more difficult because there was no easy San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. in those days. For five years, into the early '70s, Renaud played staff guitar for Columbia Records. He estimates that he played on about 1,500 songs. ``I still play every day,'' he says. Renaud, Andre and Andre's son, Paul, who plays drums, have their own trio and play ``just for the fun of it.'' Always enterprising, Renaud bought and ran a grocery store on San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the when he was 18. In 1970, the brothers decided to open another business. When ``we had the grocery store and used to drive around in a '52 Jeep, everybody wanted to buy,'' Renaud explained. Then when Camp Roberts near Paso Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
``We started with one old Jeep, renting it to Universal Studios. Now we have 400 vehicles,'' Renaud said. ``The movies rent them and bring them back real nice.'' |
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