Hi everybody,Today was a trip to Bracketville to the Alamo Village.It was built for John Wayne's epic movie THE ALAMO in 1959.It is still to this day an active movie set and in 2007 "The Man Who Came Back " was filmed here. You might remember the movie "Texas", "The Gambler", "Lonesome Dove" just to name a few --they were also filmed here.
Front of replica Alamo.The real mc coy is in San Antonio.
The church where the last stand was filmed.
overall view of courtyard where a cast of thousands did their jobs.
another overall inside view of mission.The adobe mission and town took almost 2 yrs to complete.
Center courtyard where all the action was.Music video of Willie Nelson,s "Tougher then Leather" in 1980 was filmed at this location too.
This is the village on the ranch which also was used in filming movies.Alamo Village is a complete town with jail, saloon,general stores,stables bank, blacksmith shop and church.
John Wayne Museum
saloon
Cardinals waiting for their turn at catfood dish (couldn't resist)
Buggies used in films
Background mountain scenery.It was really interesting and we have many more pics not shown .There were also documentaries made here about Texas and a few commercials, while at the same time being a working ranch with a herd of Texas Longhorn cows, horses, goats and sheep on the farm. Hope you enjoyed the tour. Bye for now take care Ron and Dee
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