Big Bear, California

Road trip # 48

Our neighbors in the RV Park

Joshua trees

Dave getting a little assistance

Celebrating our 40th Anniversary at Peppercorns

Official start to the event

Everybody gets a duck

Cute bear crackers for Big Bear

Chili dog potluck

The weather did not cooperate 

Cougar Buttes

Delilah's Delight

Jeep Eater

View from the top

Holcomb Creek

Gold Mountain & Little John Bull

Group dinner at Wyatt's

Pontiac Loop

Happy Hour

Pioneertown

Actor Dick Curtis started up the town in 1946 as an 1880s themed live-in motion-picture set. The town was designed to provide a place for production companies to enjoy while also using their businesses and homes in movies.

Hundreds of Westerns and early television shows were filmed in Pioneertown, including The Cisco Kid and Edgar Buchanan's Judge Roy Bean.  Gene Autry filmed his weekly show in town for five years, using the buildings and businesses as part of the film set. The werewolf movie Howling 7 was also filmed in Pioneertown.

As of 2019, Pioneertown had a population of 420.

Pioneer Bowl

The Thompson and White family partnership built the bowl in 1946. Mrs. White volunteered to be the first postmistress of Pioneertown, and the first post office was located inside the bowling alley.

The Pioneer Bowl is still an operating bowling alley. The third building to be built in Pioneertown, Pioneer Bowl served as a recreational venue for residents, actors, and crew after filming. Roy Rogers made the front page of the local newspaper when he opened the bowl with a strike on lane one. He bowled a 211-game in his cowboy boots, with Dale Evans and 200 townsfolk in attendance.

Meet Sam, the Deputy Mayor.

I hear he's a good kisser.