RAYNOLDS PASS to LA and HOME…

Saturday, September 2, 2024 and it was time to pack up and head home to Los Angeles. Micael and his family drove back to Bozeman to fly to Burbank while Ally, Nick and PT prepped for another 1000 mile drive…it turned out to be longer…

6:30 AM at Raynolds Pass looking towards West Yellowstone…

Pack ’em up !!!

The TROUTHUNTER FLY SHOP/ BAR & GRILL  in Island Park, ID…first visit for Ally and Nick…

Some items for me and Miles who couldn’t make the trip…

Entrance to the Bar & Grill…the Fly Shop is on the right…

Somewhere in Northern Idaho…

Crossing into Northern UTAH on I-15…

Salt Lake City, heading South…

Just outside Beaver, Utah…

Less than 400 miles to go !!!

Nick at In-An-Out in St. George , UT…

Dinner of Champions…

This was the first time I had returned to St. George, UT since my Mom worked with John Wayne in “The Conquerer”. My twin Brother and I lived there for three months during the location shoots. I participated in a documentary about that film in 2023. It was making the Film Festival Tour in the Fall of 2023. I saw it a with Nadia and Ally in Newport Beach, CA – participating in a panel discussion with others about my experience there and the direct effect it had on my family…

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(L-R) Dick Powell, John Wayne, my Mom Greg and me…

My twin Brother ( Greg ) and I next to our Mom on the set…

Panel discussion…My twin Brother survived Prostate Cancer and I have survived a tumor on my left kidney which had to be removed…

With the Producer, William Nunez…” The Conquerer : Hollwood Fallout” / trailer…

Getting on the I-15 leaving St. George …

South of St. George, Utah…

Just North of Las Vegas…

 

Detour in Vegas…the I-15 was closed South of Las Vegas to Baker, CA due to extreme flooding. We had to go around through Searchlight, NV to hook up with the I-15 near Barstow, CA…about three hours was added to the drive…

 

NEXT: Some flies perhaps ???

 

 

PT/TB

 

 

 

 

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I’M YOUR CAPTAIN…

I was going through some photographs that Ally and I collected when we made the trek to the storage unit … I don’t think that anyone has ever seen these. Some are very interesting and bring back a lot of memories. For those of you who survived the 60’s and 70’s, “I’m Your Captain”, is germane…

My Mother when she was about nineteen. This was from a photo shoot for a certain very popular peppermint candy  …around 1937, when she was doing modeling jobs in NYC…

Again, about the same time, 1937, posing with skis in Central Park, NYC…I see a lot of her in both my daughters…

On the back lot at 20th. Century Fox…being dragged around by Mom and Dad …”ENOUGH with the publicity photos…!!!”….

XMAS and visiting the fat guy in the red suit, on the roof with real reindeer, at the Tail O’ the Cock Restaurant on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks, CA…I’m interested in the fat guy, my brother wants his bell…

The Tail O’ the Cock…torn down for a mall…

My Mother’s birthday on the set (location), St. George, Utah 1955…the big guy in the middle is kinda’ obvious…

My Mother’s “shrimper”, the O’Susanah, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL…I became quite intimate with every piece of wood on that boat..I spent 3 weeks scraping, sanding and re -varnishing all of it before I went in the service, in 1967…

The Captain…with her day’s catch…West End, Grand Bahama Island, 1967…

PT, floating on a raft near The Captain’s Hatteras Sportfisherman, West End, Grand Bahama Island, 1971…just after I got out of the Army…

With the GUIDE who put her into all the fish, me and her mate Hinkley…

.300 Weatherby in hand for target practice – before the big safari in Kenya…

One of the “RARE” instances that I got to sit in the fighting chair…The Captain was inside attending to this:

This was around a lot….

Taking aim…pretty good shot too…

Overlooking the Great Rift Valley, East Africa…

…I get it…

PT/TB

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