Category: The Black Star Collection
Photography agency: Agence de Press Dalmas
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 11 x 14 inches; 27.94 x 35.56 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.011497

Inscriptions:
Agence de Presse / DALMAS - PIX / 55, [illeg.] / GUT [illeg.] PIX / INCORPORATED / 236 EAST 46TH STREET / NEW YORK 17. N.Y. / TELEPHONE YUKON 6-7540Captions: Verso: FRENCH PLAY "COWBOYS AND INDIANS" AT PRIVATE CLUB / DALMA/CAMUS/C-514 / One of the best places in the world to get into your / own "Adult Western" is a dude ranch and private club only 60 kilometers / from sophisticated Paris, near Chartres. The Hacienda Club is really / open to anyone who plays a modest annual fee -- to the "Marshall" -- which / enables the member to dress up as a cowboy, Indian, or Mexican, shoot / up the saloon (with blanks of course), ride a noble stallion, and live generally in the style of the 1870's along the Texas-Mexican border, as / Hollywood movies tell it. As the photos indicate, the Hacienda "Wester- / ners" have done their best to create as authentic a setting for their romps as any movie-maker might prepare. Besides the horses, sombreros / and chaps, Indian feathers and lariats there, are "Frontier" restaurants, / oil lamps, a covered wagon, and you can gun down a "bad man" with a model / "Remington", "Peacemaker" or "Winchester." Some haciendors come for the / weekend, some for their vacations. The ranch club, at Gallardon in France, / was converted from an old farmstead into its present "Old West" decor. Verso: Somebody has somebody "covered" as a Hacienda sheriff and guest-member / are about to discover who is the fastest "draw" west of Chartres.Markings:Verso: FRENCH PLAY "COWBOYS AND INDIANS" AT PRIVATE CLUB / DALMA/CAMUS/C-514 / One of the best places in the world to get into your / own "Adult Western" is a dude ranch and private club only 60 kilometers / from sophisticated Paris, near Chartres. The Hacienda Club is really / open to anyone who plays a modest annual fee -- to the "Marshall" -- which / enables the member to dress up as a cowboy, Indian, or Mexican, shoot / up the saloon (with blanks of course), ride a noble stallion, and live generally in the style of the 1870's along the Texas-Mexican border, as / Hollywood movies tell it. As the photos indicate, the Hacienda "Wester- / ners" have done their best to create as authentic a setting for their romps as any movie-maker might prepare. Besides the horses, sombreros / and chaps, Indian feathers and lariats there, are "Frontier" restaurants, / oil lamps, a covered wagon, and you can gun down a "bad man" with a model / "Remington", "Peacemaker" or "Winchester." Some haciendors come for the / weekend, some for their vacations. The ranch club, at Gallardon in France, / was converted from an old farmstead into its present "Old West" decor. Verso: Somebody has somebody "covered" as a Hacienda sheriff and guest-member / are about to discover who is the fastest "draw" west of Chartres.

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; 2 people; Acting; Chimney; Club; Cowboy; Cowboy hat; Day; Door; France; Full-Length Portrait; Horse; Lifestyle and leisure; Male; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Roof; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: FRANCE / PEOPLE COWBOYS
Retouching: N