Long Horn Saloon

Spahn Movie Ranch in front of
the Long Horn Saloon.
My bad I forgot  to write down what movie was being filmed
and where I found it.
I have a piece of one of the frosted glass windows!

14th and Q, Sacramento: Where Red and Blue grew (and stole?) their food

This is the Fremont Community Garden in downtown Sacramento. There are 52 plots and today there is a very long waiting list to get one. Formerly known as The Ron Mandela Community Garden, it started up in 1971 and is the place where, because they were vegetarians, Squeaky and Sandy grew most of their food. The place on P Street which they inhabited from June of 1973 until September 1975 is a quick three block walk to the northeast. There is also an SLA safehouse nearby where Patty Hearst is said to have stayed during this same time.

One of Panamint Patty’s favorite reads is Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme by Jess Bravin. In that book, Bravin writes that by all accounts, Lynn was well liked by the other gardeners at Ron Mandela. She was helpful, motivated and easy to get along with. Sandra however, was described as more antisocial and as possibly pilfering her neighbor’s crops!

Another Manson Book: "Eyes Wide Open" UPDATED

"With nine thrillers to his name — including five No. 1 bestsellers with James Patterson — Purchase's Andrew Gross is a master at crafting riveting reads.
But with his latest novel, "Eyes Wide Open," released today by Harper Collins, Gross ventures into new territory. It's a departure from his popular Ty Hauck series and, for the first time, he creates an intricate tale by drawing upon two real-life events: the death of his troubled young nephew and a chilling encounter more than 40 years ago with Charles Manson."

Click here to view full article:

http://www.lohud.com/article/20110712/ENTERTAINMENT/107120301/Purchase-author-Andrew-Gross-bases-new-thriller-real-life-events?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CNews


And also here for an essay on "the making of" at Amazon.com:

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/harper/pdf/june/EyesWideOpen._V179084749_.pdf

Update On Manson Girls

Manson Girls starts filming in 2 weeks.

Read Something-Dinner With Charlie

http://www.chrishuston.com/dinner-with-charlie/

From "Death to Pigs": Snake

From "Death to Pigs" Post trial, Squeaky and Sandy are asked about Snake.

Merrick: Snake?

Squeaky: Snakes a hole, she's an open hole. And she's..... she wants attention.

Sandy: She uh, she's a very young girl and by the time the, the DA's had gotten through with her she was speaking their language.

She was speaking court talk. She's just like a baby. She can be molded whatever way anyone chooses to mold her. When she was with us, she was slender and beautiful. Striking, that's how she got her name, Snake. Charlie named her.

Everyone needs to buy "Death to Pigs" if you mention Eviliz when ordering instead of paying $100.00 you can get it for $65.00. That is very nice of Mr. Hendrickson. The book is the size of an old school phone book. 573 pages chock full of never scene before photos. Great summer read. Worth every penny.

Addendum To The Female Bunch

The Female Bunch - An utterly bizarre psychedelic exploitation western. The Female Bunch tells the tale of five lesbians who live on a ranch. They despise men and none are allowed to live with them on the ranch. Russ Tamblyn can bee seen having his face branded before being impaled with a pitchfork.

I was wondering why the man on the cover had a cross on his forehead.

Above is another synopsis I found about The Female Bunch.

The movie was filmed at Spahn Movie Ranch in 1969. It is very likely the Family was living there at the time of filming. There is a good possibility Charlie and company watched the filming. Maybe even a few members appeared as extras? There are quite a few similarities in the movie and - in the life of the Family.

The Family - An utterly bizarre psychedelic exploitation semi-western.  A group of (bi-sexual) women live on the ranch with very few men. One man being their leader, Charlie. They despise society and its rules. The leader Charlie himself branded an X on his forehead. His women followed suit.

Did Charlie take what he saw in the filming of the movie and intertwine it with his own life and the Family?

Nancy Pitman

Nancy Pitman (2011)

Charlie's Chief Assassin with AB toddler (around 1980)

Shorty Shea Murdered

I was reading about the day Shorty Shea was murdered.  August 26, 1969.  I read that Charlie,Clem,Tex,Bruce,Shorty plus Bill Vance and Little Larry were all in the car when Shorty was driven to his death.  Did anyone else ever hear Bill and Larry were present?  That would make them accessories to Shorty's murder.  Mr. Poirot and I were discussing this earlier.  Mr. P told me Charlie did say there were other people in the car that night but he didn't name names.  Was it the 59' Ford they drove that day?  The murder mobile. I bet Shorty knew it was a set up and he only had moments to live. 
Someone I can't remember who recently asked me what happened to Shorty's matching guns. I found the answer. Shorty was known to pawn his guns for some extra cash but he always retrieved them on a buy back from the pawn shop.  Somehow Bruce ended up with the pawn ticket for Shorty's guns.  Bruce then gave the ticket to Danny DeCarlo.  
Bruce claimed he did not participate in disposing of Shea's body nor did he know where Shorty was buried.  Clem said that he alone buried the body. 
Approximately four months later on December 9th, 1969 Shea's 1962 Mercury was found parked on a side street.  
I was unable to find the location where they found his car.  Inside the car were Shorty's blood stained boots and his footlocker filled with his possessions.  
Surprise, surprise a palm print belonging to Bruce was found on the footlocker. I think Bruce like the rest of the Family, ever the scavenger riffled through Shorty's footlocker and that is where he got the pawn ticket for Shorty's guns.  It is funny how Bruce was at almost every murder/suicide except for Tate/LaBianca.
Where was Bruce on August 9th and 10th?

Movies Filmed At Spahn Movie Ranch

Quite A few soft core pornographic movies were filmed at Spahn Movie Ranch during 1969 besides Ramrodder.

Two of the movies Shorty Shea had bit parts in were,"Wanda the Sadistic Hypnotist" and "Hard On The Trail."  Below is some info on one of the movies shot there titled "The Female Bunch."

Notice the man in the cover photo has a cross
maybe carved on his forehead.  Click to enlarge

Shot on location at Spahn Ranch in the Summer of 1969, the infamous adopted home of the Manson family from 1968-1969, The Female Bunch was released the same month that California authorities raided the Ranch for Manson and his followers on suspicion of murder in October of 1969.

    

Plot: After a string of bad times with men, Sandy tries to kill herself. Co-waitress Libby saves her and takes her to meet some female friends of hers who live on a ranch in the desert.  The woman are completely independent of men.   Grace, the leader of the gang, puts Sandy through her initiation and they get on with the real job of running drugs across the Mexican border, hassling poor farmers, taking any man they please, and generally raising hell. Soon Sandy becomes unsure if this is the life for her, but it may be too late.

Watch the trailer 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW6oWyj4m9E