Goulding's Trading Post and "Fort Apache" (1948)

Yesterday, I toured the original Goulding's Trading Post building which consists of the store and upstairs living quarters of Harry and Mike Goulding.

The trading post building, near Monument Valley, was featured in two (maybe more) movies starring John Wayne and directed by John Ford. The first was Fort Apache (1948) and second was She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949). 

In Fort Apache, the building was used as part of a way station for a stagecoach stop of Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple while en route to Fort Apache.

Below are photos of the building in Fort Apache and what I took yesterday:

Above, the stagecoach of Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple arriving
 at the way station. Note the rock formations in the background.

Above, similar view from the front of the Goulding Trading Post building. The
 formations look a little different due to the angle. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Above, the stagecoach and the trading post building in Fort Apache.

Above, a similar view of the trading post building yesterday. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Goulding's Museum and John Wayne's Cabin

Above, John Wayne's cabin today. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Following some maintenance work on The Beast, I decided to head a half mile down the road to the Goulding's Lodge area.

There, visitors will find a dining room, banquet room, lodge rooms, gift shop, convenience store, gas station, theater, swimming pool, museum and John Wayne's cabin from She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949).

Above, stills from Fort Apache (1948). Photo by Armand Vaquer.

I went into the museum where there is a restored trading post filled with antique items. In another room are Indian artifacts and vintage photographs.

Above, the cabin in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon.

In another room of the museum are movie memorabilia, including photographs, movie posters and a costume worn by Joanne Dru in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon.

Above, a display of John Wayne photographs. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

From there, I headed over to the gift shop where authentic Indian arts and crafts, including pottery, rugs, jewelry and kachina dolls are available.

I picked up a couple of items while there.

Above, one of the costumes worn by Joanne Dru in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Following the gift shop, I headed up the road a little bit to do some grocery shopping and then headed back to the campground. Thankfully, while it is still cold out, at least the winds died down.

Shirley Temple Black Dies At 85

The Washington Post just reported:

WOODSIDE, Calif. — Shirley Temple, iconic child star and Depression-era box office draw, dies in California at 85.

Besides that, she was also U.S. Ambassador to Ghana.

Watched "March of the Wooden Soldiers" Last Night

We watched Laurel & Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) over a big bowl of popcorn last night. The DVD contains the original black and white version as well as a colorized version. My roomie wanted to see the colorized version, so we did. I am not fond of colorizing old black and white movies, but I have to admit that the colorists did a good job and it aided in the enjoyment of the movie.

Above, the DVD box art.

We also checked out some of the extras the DVD contained, and there are a lot of them. We watched the (purported) only technicolor film short of Laurel & Hardy called, "Tree In A Test Tube" for the Dept. of Agriculture's Forest Service on materials made from trees and wood products. It was filmed on November 29, 1941, eight days before the Pearl Harbor attack. This short has been posted on YouTube. To see it, go here.

The DVD had trailers on other programs including one of a storybook television show (I vaguely remember this) hosted and starring Shirley Temple, circa 1960. There were also vintage toy commercials from Remco, Hasbro, Ideal and Mattel. I remembered a couple of them.  One was of a drive-in theater toy that had a mini film strip projector inside that I had when I was a kid. It struck me that the toys back then (late-1950s to early-1960s) allowed kids to use their imaginations while playing, something that seems missing today. There was also a Max Fleisher cartoon of "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer." The DVD also contained a Christmas greeting message by the kids of the "Our Gang" comedies and a Christmas greetings message shown in theaters in 1945, following the end of World War II. There were other extras that we didn't get to.

For around $6.00, the March of the Wooden Soldiers DVD was a great buy at Amazon.com.

Until last night, my roomie never saw March of the Wooden Soldiers before. She enjoyed it.