Ray "Crash" Corrigan - Corriganville

Corriganville

In 1937, Corrigan was on a hunting trip with Clark Gable when he had the idea to purchase the land in Simi Valley, California as his own Western ranch similar to Iverson Movie Ranch. He paid $1,000 down payment, then a thousand dollars a month until the $11,354 price was paid. He developed this into Corriganville, a location used for many Western movies and TV shows. The location featured many different types of terrain for producers such as lakes, mountains, and caves. As opposed to merely set fronts, Corriganville contained actual buildings where film crews could live and store their equipment to save time and expense wasted in daily travelling from studios to an outdoor location.

Corrigan made a lot of money from renting out this location and from paying visitors - it was opened to the public for Western-themed shows in 1949.

Examples of movies and shows filmed at Corriganville:

• Drums of Fu Manchu (1939)
• Fort Apache (1948)
• The Lone Ranger (1949–1957)
• The Cisco Kid (1950–1956)
• The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951–1955)
• The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954–1959)
• Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
• Casey Jones (1957)

Corriganville was eventually sold to Bob Hope in 1966, at which point, it became Hopetown.