Mae West: El Rancho

The charm of yesterday, the convenience of tomorrow is the slogan for the El Rancho where MAE WEST bedded down with the sandman.
• • Columnist Amy Graff writes: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn stayed here during production of The Sea of Grass; Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick were guests when they made The Hallelujah Trail. The list of Hollywood stars who bedded down at the El Rancho Hotel in Gallup, N.M., goes on and on: MAE WEST, Gene Autry, Jack Benny, Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Ronald Reagan, James Stewart, John Wayne, Burt Lancaster, and many others.
• • Columnist Amy Graff writes: Built in 1937 by R. E. "Griff" Griffith, brother of movie mogul D. W. Griffith, the El Rancho's rustic charm was attractive to the movie makers and stars filming in the surrounding red rock canyons. Their autographed photos line the walls of the spectacular two-story lobby with dark wood beams, Navajo rugs, mounted trophy heads, a circular staircase, and an enormous stone fireplace.
• • Today the El Rancho is on the National Register of Historic Places and a popular attraction along Route 66. . . .
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• • The Mommy Files: Route 66: El Rancho Hotel, Gallup, N.M.
• • Byline: Amy Graff
• • Published in: SFGate.com — — www.sfgate.com
• • Published on: 10 July 2008
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• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: 20 January 2008

On 20 January 2008, you are invited to come up and see MAE WEST in the central New York State area [in the vicinity of Oneonta, NY] — — and, yes, even the fresh popcorn is on the house.
• • Thanks to someone's brilliantly quirky idea, the New York Power Authority's Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project is screening motion picture classics during January. The flickers will begin at 2 o'clock inside the admission-free visitors center.
• • On tap for Sunday 20 January 2008, you can enjoy "Belle of the Nineties" [1934], starring Mae West with music by Duke Ellington.
• • Other Sundays in January will feature "Annie Get Your Gun"; "Brigadoon" [1954], starring Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse; and Ronald Reagan in "This Is the Army" [1943].
• • Popcorn will be available for all the free showings in the visitors center theater.
• • The visitors center is located on state Route 30. For more information, call (800) 724-0309 or visit NYPA on the Web at www.nypa.gov.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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