Old Tucson
Tucson, AZ
We've been traveling around Tucson for the past week to get a feel for the area and to see if this would be a spot for us to someday, settle down. We loved Oro Valley and even parts of Marana. Both are outside of Tucson to the north.
Today however, we wanted to do a return visit to Old Tucson. We drove about 30 minutes to get there from the RV park. Old Tucson is a movie studio and theme park. It was built as a 1890s replica of Tucson back in 1939 by Columbia Pictures, for the movie Arizona with William Holden and Jean Arthur.
Main street....
The Grand Palace where they do performances....
Walking tours led by guides ......
Located in Tucson Mountain Park which is part of the Saguaro National Park, there are many saguaro cactus trees... and they are quite large...
they offer many "shows" each day ranging from a comedy elixir salesman to a movie set gunfight.
The Mission was used for many old west movies...
Here they reenacted the movie "The Hanged Man" from 1974..
Complete with a big gunfight at the end...
Marilyn had visited here with her mother in the 1980s and we brought our grandson Steven here when he was about 8 years old (around 1997). The park is still doing well but clearly it's difficult for them to stay current and draw kids who have no knowledge of, or interest in the old west. So you mostly see older folks here who lived during that era and know a lot of the history.
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