Join Old Tucson Studios, Arizona’s Hollywood in the Desert for 70 Years from  10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, December 26^th through Saturday, January 2^nd.   (Old Tucson Studios is closed on Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24th and Christmas Day, Friday, December 25^th.)

We’re dishing up an exciting post-Christmas line-up of Western family fun and entertainment including dramatic gunfights, daring stunt shows, and saloon musicals.  Hurry – your last chance to see Miss Kitty’s Cowboy Christmas show will be Thursday, December 31st.   

The kids will love riding the train and carousel and the thrill of driving the antique cars!  Or take a scenic trail ride through the beautiful Arizona Sonora Desert.

Enjoy authentic southwestern BBQ from Big Jake, our on-site smoker.  Shop for holiday bargains, unique gifts, Hollywood western memorabilia, and more.   Create holiday memories with a family portrait from the Old Time Photo Emporium! 

Don’t miss your chance to take an historian-guided tour of historic movie sets or the 70th Anniversay Retrospective exhibit in the Lincoln County Courthouse. 

Put away the turkey leftovers, pack up the family and head out to Old Tucson Studios Thanksgiving weekend for a day full of Western family fun and adventure!  Special weekend hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 27, Saturday, Nov. 28, and Sunday, Nov. 29.

 Enjoy dramatic gunfights, thrilling stunt shows, and musical revues. Celebrate the Christmas season with a Western flair. Don’t miss “Miss Kitty’s Cowboy Christmas” our special holiday musical and Santa’s daily arrival by stagecoach!  

Make family holiday memories with great photo opportunities at every turn or don some Western duds for a family portrait in the Old Time Photo Emporium. Enjoy great food and get a jump on holiday shopping.  The kids will love panning for gold, the Iron Door Mine, Antique Cars they can drive and more!

Help Old Tucson Studios refill the coffers of the Tucson Community Food Bank and save on admission!  Bring a canned or packaged food item and save $3 off regular adult admission and $2 off regular child admission. One discount per food item donated.  The food bank would appreciate the following priority items: 

 So what are you waiting for?  Head out to Old Tucson Studios for some good old-fashioned fun at a great price!

Join the Pima Rotary Club at Old Tucson Studios on November 7 from 4PM-9PM for their first ever City Slicker Rodeo! The event, which is open to the public, will raise funds to support youth projects both in our local community and internationally: building a playground for the children at the new Tucson Gospel Rescue Mission facility, providing clothing, furniture and household items to Youth On Their Own in Tucson and supporting the Rubaga Community School, an orphanage school in Uganda. Through the Rotary International matching grants program, Pima Rotary Club has an opportunity to double the local funds and more than triple the international funds allowing them to help many children.

 The fun-filled family event features a city slicker team rodeo, children’s carnival booths, a chuck wagon dinner, and a barn dance with live music by the Bill Ganz Western Band. Join in the fun by getting a team of four people together to compete in City Slicker Rodeo events including Build-A-Horse, Rope-A-Steer, Double-Sided Barrel Races, Tomahawk Throw, Cross Country Shuffle, Calf Tying and Poker Darts. Competition is sure to be fierce as teams vie for bragging rights as rodeo champs. No live animals are used in the city slicker competition. “It would be too dangerous to allow ordinary ‘city slickers’ to compete with live animals,” according to Project Co-Chair David Flieger, MD

 Admission to the event is $40 for adults and $25 for children over 3 years.  For more event information including entering your own team or being an event sponsor and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.pimarotary.org/rodeo/.

 Rotary International is the world’s first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary Club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto, “Service Above Self.” The Pima Rotary Club is a Tucson based Rotary Club that meets at 11:15 am at Chad’s Steakhouse the first three Fridays of each month.

Old Tucson Studios 2009 NightFall, Harvest of Fear which begins October 1 and runs throughout the month of October will feature a performance on Thursday, October 29 by hip-hop superstar Flo Rida.

 Flo Rida’s current hit, Right Round, has been # 1 on the Hot 100 for six weeks. Even before the Carol City, FL native’s debut album, “MAIL ON SUNDAY,” was released by Poe Boy/Atlantic Records on March 18, 2008 his explosive first single, Low, shot to the top of nearly every chart—Top 40 radio, Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and Hot RingMasters chart, Soundscan’s Digital Song chart, iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, MySpace, MTV’s TRL, and BET’s 106 & Park.  Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see Flo Rida against the backdrop of Nightfall.

 Each year, the terrifying haunted houses, entertaining live shows and high scare factor of wandering and unpredictable asylum inmates “streetmosphere” make NightFall Arizona’s most popular Halloween attraction. In 2008, Haunted World Magazine named the popular annual horror fest one of its Top Ten Halloween Attractions for Theme Parks nationwide.

For more information about NightFall and to purchase tickets (including the performance on October 29^th), visit our website at www.NightfallAZ.com or call us at 520-883-0100.  The special performance will be included in the $24 admission price.

Old Tucson Studios is located at 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, 85735.

To Benefit Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum Building Repairs       

Travel back in time to the 1880’s at Wild West Days at Old Tucson Studios, March 25-28, 2010. Each day from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm the four-day festival hosts events and musical performances that honor and recreate frontier life in the thrilling days of the Wild West circa 1880’s.

Wander the lawless 1880’s streets of Old Tucson Studios but don’t get caught in the crossfire of a cowboy gunfight.  And ladies…be sure to keep a hold of your men-folk during the new and bawdier than ever Miss Kitty’s Can-Can Revue. Enjoy Old Tucson Studio’s new comedy and stunt show, Wild Wild West: Night of the Deadly Tycoon. The show is based on the popular 1960’s television show that spawned two made-for-TV movies shot at Old Tucson Studios featurong the hi-jinks and heroism of Secret Service Agents James West and Artemus Gordon, the show’s stars.

Bring your hearty frontier appetite to the 1880’s chuckwagon for brisket and other frontier grub north of town at Bitter Creek daily from 11 am to 2 pm.

A portion of the proceeds from the Wild West Days will be directed toward the repair of buildings that house the Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum’s priceless collection of horse drawn vehicles.  The roof of historic adobe building at the museum, built in the 1930’s to house the city’s mounted police livery, needs immediate maintenance.

Many of the museum’s buildings that need work were once part of Tucson’s original airport, the first municipally owned airport in North America. The airport hosted pilot Charles Lindbergh and his Spirit of St. Louis aircraft in September of 1927 after Lindbergh’s historic Trans-Atlantic flight four months earlier. The Tucson Rodeo Parade Committee is celebrating its 85^th anniversary in 2010.

The head-lining performance at Wild West Days occurs Saturday, March 27 when World Champion Lady Six Gun Spinner  Pistol Packin’ Paula and Hot Shot Johnny Tuscadero, Wild West Performing Arts Society (WWPAS) 2009 World Champion Gun Spinner, square off in pistol spinning contest. Recently, the two dueled to a “draw” at an exhibition in Las Vegas during the WWPAS World Championships. The winner takes home a pair of Cimarron 45’s that are custom engraved by gunsmith John Schultz. The pistol set includes a custom holster set made by saddle-maker Ed Douglas. Both John Schultz and Ed Douglas recently set up shop at Old Tucson Studios where guests can see the master craftsmen at work.  

Additional festival performers include:

• Sourdough Slim, a gifted comedian and musician who will have audiences laughing in the aisles one minute and spellbound the next with his unbelievable yodeling routine
• Wild West Showman Kowboy Kal, the Guinness Book World Record Holder for the largest wedding ring loop, will perform fancy rope and gun tricks
• Card Shark Dick Casey who specializes in Blackjack (also known as “21″) brings his gambling act to Old Tucson Studios and guests will be amazed and cheated…uh, make that “entertained” with each hand played.

 The Tucson Rodeo Museum will host a rolling stock exhibit at the festival with historic vehicles from the museum’s world-class collection.  Museum docents will thrill guests with stories of the wagons and other horse drawn vehicles on display. 

All festival events are included in the regular Old Tucson Studios Admission price of $16.95 for adults and $10.95 for children.   

Old Tucson Studios is a corporate member of SASS.  Active SASS members in full costume receive free admission to Old Tucson Studios if members meet the following Admission Requirements.

1.  Members must be dressed in period costume with a SASS badge and must present a SASS ID card.
2.  No live ammunition will be allowed in the Park.  Dummy rounds in gun belts will be allowed provided that the primers are dimpled and/or the brass is drilled.
3.  Guns will be allowed provided that they are unloaded. (Guns will be safety checked at the gate).
4.  No alcohol may be consumed by a SASS member wearing firearms.
5.  SASS rules apply.

Slap on your spurs and head out to Old Tucson Studios for the third annual COWBOY BALL on Friday, November 6, 2009, from 5pm – 10pm.  The event, which will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona is presented by Tanque Verde Ranch. The evening festivities will feature cocktails on Old Tucson’s Main Street, dinner in the Grand Palace Hotel & Saloon, a hosted bar, silent and live auctions and western performers. In keeping with the theme of the evening, guests are encouraged to dress in their best “Cowboy Chic” style. One of the highlights of the evening will be a performance by legendary country band “Restless Heart.” The evening will be emceed by actor and comedian Bob Elliot. 

Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has enriched the lives of children with life-threatening medical condition.  With the support of  more than 25,000 volunteers, the Make-A-Wish experience makes life-changing impacts on children, families, referral sources, donors, sponsors and entire communities.  Tucson boasts nearly 100 Make-A-Wish volunteers, along with four members of the Foundation’s Board of Directors.  Learn more about the Foundation at Make-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona and  Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.

Tickets are $150 per person with tables of 10 available for $1,250. Tickets can be purchased online at www.cowboyball.com or by phone at (520) 731-WISH.  Sponsorship opportunities also are available.

Contacts:
Media / Production: Roni Ziemba 520.820.4412 / roniz@tvgr.com
Tickets and Sponsorship: Molly Ankney 520.731.WISH (9474) / mjankney@wishaz.org

Triboro Pictures, a production company from New York City, is scheduled to shoot Ghost Wolf, a western horror film, at Old Tucson Studios Wednesday, September 16 through Friday, September 18. Old Tucson Studios will provide production services including old west town set and desert locations, props, wardrobe, gun wrangling, stagecoach with horses, and catering. 

 Old Tucson Studios guests are welcome to watch production in town as long as they follow sound and film control guidelines.  Access to some sets may be restricted at times to facilitate the shooting schedule.

 Old Tucson Studios is an active film location providing a full range of location services since 1939. This year marks the 70^th Year of Old Tucson Studios, which is also a western theme park.

First Annual SASS Appreciation  Membership Drive
& World Outdoor Championship Wax Shooting

June 14, 2009 ~ Old Tucson Studios

Hosted by: Tombstone Buscaderos
Sponsored by:    Cowboy Way,  LLC

The main event is the Outdoor World Wax Championship at 10:30 a.m. This event is similar to the highly successful SASS Indoor World Wax Championship Match held annually near the lobby of the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas.  

 
Limited to the first 100 shooters                          Cost: $30.00 

 
 Entry includes:  Main match (10:30 a.m.) and the ShowDown match (High Noon, 12 p.m.), five raffle tickets. Furnish your own #209/.45 wax ammo (no gunpowder).  Loaded #209/.45 ammo will be available at .20¢ each. Use any gun/holster accepted by any Six Shooter Recreational Gun Sport Association. Everyone is a Safety Officer.  Relevant common sense SASS^TM rules will apply.

 
 Nice Trophy Buckle and full Bragging Rights to 1^st place winner of each event!

* * * Awards thru 4^th place * * *

 Single Action Pistols and Double Barrel Shotgun firearms will be provided. The Wax Match will be open to non-modern shooting category only (period correct clothing required). 

Raffles  with proceeds to benefit the SASS scholarship fund

 
Celebrity Gunfight  (Open to the Public to try – So you think you’re fast?)
 

 
 ***Entry Form***************Entry Form**************Entry Form***

Name:_____________________________________

Alias:__________________________ SASS#:___________

Address:________________________________________

E-mail:______________________________________

Phone:______________________________________

City: __________________________________ State: ______ Zip: ________

Make Check Payable to: Cowboy Way LLC.
Send to:
Cowboy Way LLC
HC3 Box 1028
Tucson, AZ. 85739

The Canutillo, Texas  Middle School Advanced Band will visit Old Tucson Studios on Friday, May 15.  It promises to be a big day for both the CMS band and Old  Tucson Studios guests who will enjoy their performance!

The Advanced Band is the top performing band at CMS and band students are chosen by their musical abilities.  Students must be a 7th or 8th grader to be in this group.  The Advanced Band performs at concerts, pep rallies, contests, solo and ensemble contests and play at other public events. 

This will be the first band performance trip for this up-and-coming middle school band from West Texas.

Preserving and promoting the spirit and traditions
of the Old West!

Old Tucson Studios and SASS – a match made in movie heaven!
Old Tucson Studios, home to more than 300 movies and shows, has been steeped in the Hollywood western tradition since 1939.  Cowboy Action Shooting was created in 1981 by Harper Creigh an avid shooter who, while watching old westerns, was inspired to create a shooting match using western-type guns.

 Today’s Single Action Shooting Society, an international organization, stages shooting matches and endorses matches conducted by affiliate clubs. In the spirit of the Old West, SASS match participants sport shooting aliases, costumes, and firearms reflective of the period.

 Old Tucson Studios brings these two iconic western traditions together by welcoming current SASS members with free admission* when they comply with following guidelines: 

1.  Members must be dressed in period costume with a SASS badge and must
      present a current SASS ID card.

2.  No live ammunition will be allowed in the Park. Dummy rounds in gun belts
      will be allowed provided that the primers are dimpled and/or the brass is
      drilled.

3.  Guns will be allowed provided that they are unloaded. (Guns will be
      safety checked at the gate).

4.  No alcohol may be consumed by a SASS member wearing firearms.

5.  SASS rules apply.

 So come out and spend a day in the Old West, complete with gunfights and stunt shows, dance hall musicals, and rides for the kids. Pan for gold, tour our movie museum and chow down on authentic chuckwagon barbecue. It’s a fun-filled day at one of the west’s most famous and still-active movie locations.  Old Tucson Studios – Celebrating 70 years of Western Movie Magic

 Learn more and join SASS now (text will be a link to http://www.sassnet.com/)

 *Special events may be excluded