Destroyed in November's Woolsey blaze, Paramount Ranch's iconic Western town — used over the decades in films and TV series from 'The Love Bug' to 'Westworld' — hopes to rebuild for a 'more usable' future.
The rest of the town is visible only in photos that hang on fences cordoning off dangerous debris.
For three decades, Randy Haberkamp took advantage of starry nights at Paramount Ranch to screen classic silent films. "Silents Under the Stars" averaged two screenings a summer and was a respite for film buffs to watch old films beneath the stark beauty of a mountain sky.. The inferno swept across those mountains in November, ravaging some 1.
"It won't be an exact carbon copy of what we had before," says Jimenez, who has knowledge of the plans, adding that the new town may be "more usable and bigger." A portion of $78 million in federal disaster relief funds will be used to help finance reconstruction, along with other measures, including roughly $300,000 from individual donors, the Malibu Foundation and the National Park Foundation.
Jimenez notes that interest in the location remains. "There have been big producers that have come to the park, even after the fire," he says. This year, as summer began and a new fire season was underway, Haberkamp wondered whether his "Silents Under the Stars" screenings might have a future. "The ranch didn't know what to say," he recalls.
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