This morning, I jumped out of bed, grabbed my cameras, hopped in the car and raced eastward. I was dying to get some sunrise pix of the mountains today. I was about a half hour late; however, the cloud cover gave me just that little bit of extra time to be able to get in a few good shots. (see them here at smugmug) There was no destination in mind, other than east. I didn't have a clue, a road map, and once on the road, realized I didn't have my cellphone either! oops!
I stopped and filled up for gas before I turned off the main roads; there were a few bikers just finishing up a break, or morning coffee, so I headed the way they did, and turned on Mountain View Road. It was just what I needed! As I was nearing the end of my excursion, I stumbled across the Superstition Mountain Museum (of course, at 7am, it was closed!). But there I found this cute old chapel, and of course, snapped a few pix. When I got home and looked it up, its a famous chapel!
- The Elvis Presley Chapel is a movie memorabilia museum showing the movies that were filmed at Apacheland. Survivor of two fires, one in 1969 and one in 2004, which decimated Apacheland Movie Ranch, the Elvis Presley Memorial Chapel was donated to the Superstition Mountain Museum by Sue and Ed Birmingham.
- The chapel was taken down piece by piece, nail by nail, has been reconstructed on the museum ground. The Apacheland Movie Ranch Museum is a special museum of western motion pictures and television that were filmed there over a 45 year period, including “Charro,” which starred Elvis Presley. Among some of the better known motion pictures filmed at Apacheland were: The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Arizona Raiders ,The Haunted, The Gambler II and Blind Justice. Television series included Have Gun Will Travel, and Wanted Dead or Alive.
- It will also serve, as it has since it was first constructed, as a wedding chapel and reservations are being taken.
have camera will travel!
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