The phrase Drugstore Cowboy was coined in the 1920s to describe the day players that hung out at Sunset and Gower - known colloquially as Gower Gulch - looking for B-movie work.

Apropos of our previous pix, here's another effort along a similar theme – a Tintype of Bronco Bunny & Kalamity Kitty filming a less than successful gun fight, while making the classic B–Western, "Shootout at Gower Gulch"... "Gower Gulch" or so I've been told, is the intersection of Sunset & Gower in Hollywood, far down in what was once the "poverty row" for small movie studios... Back in the 20s & 30s there was a li'l saloon on the corner, where ex-cowhands would hang out between jobs as riding extras – the Posse, the Outlaw gang, Indian raiders, or most any movie part that required riding a horse or driving a wagon or stagecoach... When a studio needed riders, they'd send someone down to hire whoever was there – eventually these riding extras became known as, "The Gower Gulch Gang"... They worked day to day with no security and no insurance, doing their own riding stunts... if they were injured on the job, the studios offered no help, it was just their tough luck... There's a fascinating book, "The Hollywood Posse" written by Diana Serra Cary, who's father was one of these ex-cowboy riding extras for many years, riding for Bronco Billy & Tom Mix, to Cecil B. DeMille's crusader epics...

doing that thing i did once before where i upload a menagerie of my Garageband Meddlings of cues/songs/blips/etc that are either too brief to post on their own or too unfinished. 95% of these are just studies of pre-existing Carl Stalling scores HAHA (that some of you may recognize! some of you may not! i’ll put sources in tags) but HEY! i tried to organize them from most substantial/finished to least

Death Valley - Gower Gulch [6000x4000] [OC]

Jeff Regan Investigator Radio Show Guy From Gower Gulch otr old time radio

Morning Coffee; better later than not at all. I finally got a less expensive used copy of, I Wished by Dennis Cooper. This was the hot ticket about a year ago but I never get books new. Need to read this and then would like to go back and reread the George Myles books, post reading I Wished, so I can see if time, and having a better understanding the texts and George Myles shifts as presented in this text, will time and this new other book, outside of the cycle but with GM, alter my take away? Will time and age shift the reading of the books? Funny I never asked Dennis to sign any of my books so who knows maybe the next time he is in Los Angeles, I can run by and get him to mark them up a bit? It would be nice and sort of fan boy of me though I am no longer a "boy" I still have obsessions but they too have changed. A boy from VA who is str8 but in love with only one guy and it is the only guy who he could ever be in love with is sort of a new obsession of mine (as of last night) Matt Dillion grew up and became a visual artist and while I like his paintings I am wondering if I would like them as much if they had not been painted by Matt Dillion? It's sort of hard to hold onto that old obsession though I do like him in some later films and tv series. So I am back at the shitty hotel with a "new" (to me that is) Blue Willow cup and saucer. Both are stamped JAPAN on the bottom. It was the best thing I could find at the thrift shop not marked up to $10ea. and although they were marked $3.00 ea. the person sold me the set as I presented it on the counter. Blue Willow is more of a Bud thing than me but I like it and the shape of the the cup, it's pleasing to me. I did leave two lampshades that where a dirty white maybe cream color with pink floral on them. I should have picked them up and then found the perfect mismatched lamps for them down the line but I have no space to store them, yet I can't stop thinking about them. Back at the hotel for a couple days and then back to try and figure out how to get rid of that boxes of clothing I own that stopped being so great and just a reminder of failure. I am in a bit of a mood and scattered. The coffee tastes good and I just with this was Feb. 1st. But we have a few long slow days before then. I should write and ask Dennis if he plans on being in LA anytime soon. I mean it would be nice to see him again but I worry I have nothing interesting enough to hold a decent conversation any longer. Not enough to fill a lunch date at rock and roll Denny's (is that even a thing anymore? The Denny at Gower Gulch where we once shared a lunch is now gone and we talked hustlers or Menendez brothers or both? Killing has gotten sort of mundane or ruined by the fucking alt Right shoot'em up mass killing that take place weekly. It was a long time ago. 

Petunia: Is everything all right? What do we do?

Porky: C-considering we've lost c-communications with the engineer, we are s-s-standing totally exposed on the f-f-f-front of the l-l-l-l-locomotive, the train appears to be accel-accel uh growing faster uncontrollably, and we are r-r-r-r-rapidly approaching G-G-G-G-Gower G-G-G-G-G-Gulch which happens to be the s-s-s-s-s-steepest downhill g-g-grade in the w-w-world, I suggest we all hold on...t-t-TIGHTLY!!!

But Oh! The Colors - Death Valley Rocks!

But Oh! The Colors – Death Valley Rocks!

The very first time I saw Death Valley the first thought that popped into my head was “Boy, but this is a barren landscape!” But right on the heels of that thought came a second, this one attached to a sense of wonder – But Oh! The colors! I called this viewpoint “Better than Zabriskie”. It was my personal meditation spot. Only a ten-minute walk from the road and less than half a mile from…

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Jerome "Blackjack" Ward ‘Shot and killed John Tyke, on Sunset Blvd. Feb 23rd 1940. Cowboy movie extra Ward (3rd image) with his wife Mickey during a re-enactment of his fatal confrontation with fellow extra John Ainsworth Tyacke a.k.a. Johnny Tyke for police. Blackjack allegedly shot Tyke with a .45 in Gower Gulch, the name given to the area near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street where film extras hang out waiting for work. Ward entered a plea of not guilty based on self defense and temporary insanity. He was ultimately set free after many witnesses, including Yukon Jake, attested to Tyke's violent nature. - #vintageworkwear #vintagedenim #denim #buckleback #vintagejeans #selvedge #selvedgedenim #vintagelevis #levis #levistrauss #1940s #indigo #rivet #cinch #donutbutton #vintagestyle #vintagemenswear #rugged #ruggedstyle #history #vintagephoto #blackandwhitephotography #formfollowsfunction https://www.instagram.com/p/B7RN_4qpSfS/?igshid=6q10oo0257tv

The phrase Drugstore Cowboy coined at the corner of Sunset and Gower?

Hiking : Golden Canyon and Gower Gulch Loop

Hiking : Golden Canyon and Gower Gulch Loop

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Continuing on.  Gower Gulch Trail and Badlands Loop, Death Valley National Park, California

Gower Gulch to Golden Canyon, Death Valley National Park, CA @deathvalleynps (at Death Valley National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM6HSAQD-PR/?igshid=cdzn6jblw7qh

Officer Porky: Oh, S-S-S-Seargent O’Duck, s-someone from G-G-Gower Gulch c-c-called for you. [Daffy turns to face him, he is literally covered in firearms all over his black suit, he has a tooth pick in his mouth] I'll t-t-tell them you'll ring them b-b-back.

Elephant’s Foot . . The elephant looking rocks above Gower Gulch… carved by father time for all to see. There’s nothing like it. One of the elements that makes Zabriskie Point the icon it is. Thankfully it’s not a hike to reach this vantage point. Must stop if you’re in Death Valley. . . #artofvisuals #photooftheday #photographer#instagood #illgramers #ig_color #IG_Underdogz #makemoments #goexplore #lonelyplanet #ourplanetdaily #jaw_dropping_shots #todayscalifornia #lost_world_treasures #nationalparklife #igrefined #depthsofearth #allbeauty_addiction #depthsofearth #dreaming_landscape #welcometonature #master_gallery #landscapephotographers #global_hotshotz #igpodium #theimaged #moodnation #gramslayers #deathvalley #paintedlandscape #carved https://instagr.am/p/CMSh1IaJ4Cq/