A241 Universal Studios Packet No. 1 Vintage California Packets and Reels 3D by Mr Viewmaster

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Universal Studios Entertainmentland, a wonderful Never-
Never Land of magical make-believe scenes, is a place where
one can literally go "around the world" without leaving California. Whatever the script calls for: a bustling city, an open, lonely Western range, a rip-roaring frontier town, or a palm-decked South Sea island. Universal Studios has it.

Lieutenant Columbo may be tracking down a dangerous
criminal through big city streets while, a short distance away,
a fast-drawing Western sheriff is searching a remote canyon
for a hard-riding holdup man. Spartacus attacked the march-
ing Roman legions on the same back road where Indians have
ambushed stage coaches on the Overland Trail.

Appropriately enough for Southern California, the parcel
of land on which Universal Studios now sits was once owned
by a Spanish grandee. It was called El Rancho Cahuenga de
Ramires. When Universal purchased the 260-acre property in
1914, however, it was a chicken ranch. •

Universal subsequently produced hundreds of famous
movies on the ranch. Some of the old props remain, one of
which is the stage of "Phantom of the Opera," in which Lon
Chaney starred. Jerome Kern's "Show Boat" was filmed on
the same lake as "McHale's Navy." Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson,
Buck Jones, and Harry Carey "rode off into the sunset" in
"Killer Canyon" where today's TV Westerns are made.

In the early days the studio boasted 45 pictures a year,
whereas the revamped movie and television "city," which has

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