Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace

Pioneertown wasn’t always a real town, but it is now. Only a real town would have its own honky-tonk, right? Pioneertown was an elaborate film set built in the 1940s deep in the high desert, a Wild West facade used in several Western films, including the famous The Cisco Kid. Its remote location made it more efficient to build era-appropriate lodgings for the talent right there on set, creating a tiny but functional town that served as both a shooting location and an unincorporated community village… read more >