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Post by loucapitano on Oct 22, 2014 16:44:13 GMT -5
Hi Rich, it's great to see what you look like after reading your contributions all these years. Keep up the great work and let's hope the Village can be saved. Yours is truly a labor of love, Bless You. Lou from Long Island
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Post by captbaugh on Mar 16, 2017 9:31:42 GMT -5
Hi Rich.........first, thank you for the tour with my wife and granddaughter about this time last year at Alamo Village. You were the perfect guide and host and help bring back many years of memories for me and my wife there and new memories for my granddaughter. I was curious, any news on the progression of it reopening? Also, I'll be contacting you soon, it is the 30th anniversary this summer of the filming of APOF, and wanted to discuss an idea with you. Right now I'm furiously prepping an 8 hour series for NatGeo on Martha Raddatz's book THE LONG ROAD HOME, true story of an event when the surge began in April of 2004 in Iraq known as Black Sunday. They have built an amazing, very very practical and sturdy replica of Sadr City on Ft Hood.....very reminiscent of the way Wayne built his Alamo set. We start filming next week and go to the end of June, but I will reach out to you after I get through the first three weeks, all the best, Mike
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Post by loucapitano on Sept 20, 2017 16:02:05 GMT -5
I guess the Alamo Village site has been closed by now. I sorry I didn't visit it in 2000 while in San Antonio, but I couldn't extend my stay for another day to drive to Brackettville. I'm so grateful to all the people in the Alamo society who shared pictures and videos of their visits to the Wayne set. Their pictures, along with the Farkis book "Just Remembering" added a lot to my image of what it looked like. I suppose the next Hollywood iteration of the Alamo will work it's magic, but it's not likely the next producers will match Wayne's millions of adobe and limestone bricks to create such a vivid set. It will be plasterboard and special effects, but who knows? Look at all the building they did for "Game of Thrones." Of course, even much of that is computer images. At least we had the Alamo Village for over 60 years, and that took some doing. Again, thanks to Rich Curilla who kept the lights on for as long as he did. Lou from Long Island
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