On Ralph Feller’s Awesome Applicant, his history of hosting Karaoke at various service and night clubs, senior centers, and specialty schools around the Phoenix area caught manager Steve Browning’s eye. In the Old Barn Theater on the Parry Lodge property, Browning hoped to recruit a Workamper to show films that were produced in the area. During the 2006 season, Ralph fit the job role, introducing the movies and telling some history of Parry Lodge. Ralph also entertained guests with stories and trivia about the cast and crew who stayed at the Lodge.
For Workampers seeking a bit of the Old West mixed in with Hollywood’s Golden Age, Parry Lodge at Kanab, Utah, is the next best thing to living and working on a movie production lot. Founded in 1931 by the three Parry brothers, the Lodge has hosted stars while they filmed in scenic locales in and around Kanab. Today, names such as John Wayne, Olivia De Havilland, Gregory Peck, Maureen O'Hara, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Lana Turner, Clint Eastwood and Barbara Stanwyck are still on selected doors of the 89 rooms in the Lodge, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A few of the movies and television series filmed in the area include Wagon Train, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Mackenna’s Gold, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, Maverick, Gunsmoke, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, and The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Santa Ana listed its openings in early July, although the starting date was December 1. “We sent a short e-mail saying we were interested and would like to send our resumes,” Linda says. “We were recruited by Martin Hagne, Director of the Valley Nature Center, a nonprofit environmental education facility in Weslaco, Texas.
The Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge called Linda Lanoue’s name from the Workamper News Hotline. She and her husband Fred had spent a couple of winters in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and had visited the refuge many times. “But we weren't looking for jobs in the winter of 2007,” Linda says. “I hadn't even been reading the Hotline, but that particular day, the ad for volunteers at Santa Ana got my attention. We thought the volunteer roles would give us a chance to experience a different type of Workamping than we had done before. We already knew that the positions would be in an interesting place that we already liked.”
For Workampers seeking a bit of the Old West mixed in with Hollywood’s Golden Age, Parry Lodge at Kanab, Utah, is the next best thing to living and working on a movie production lot. Founded in 1931 by the three Parry brothers, the Lodge has hosted stars while they filmed in scenic locales in and around Kanab. Today, names such as John Wayne, Olivia De Havilland, Gregory Peck, Maureen O'Hara, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Lana Turner, Clint Eastwood and Barbara Stanwyck are still on selected doors of the 89 rooms in the Lodge, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A few of the movies and television series filmed in the area include Wagon Train, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Mackenna’s Gold, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, Maverick, Gunsmoke, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, and The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Santa Ana listed its openings in early July, although the starting date was December 1. “We sent a short e-mail saying we were interested and would like to send our resumes,” Linda says. “We were recruited by Martin Hagne, Director of the Valley Nature Center, a nonprofit environmental education facility in Weslaco, Texas.
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