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Paul, Renaud & Andre Veluzat
Melody Ranch Owners
Paul T. Veluzat (center), flanked by two of his three sons, Renaud (left) and Andre (right) at their Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio in 1997.Following the devastating August 28, 1962 fire that burned down most of the buildings at Melody Ranch, Gene Autry and his wife, Jackie, began selling off pieces of the 110-acre property in Placerita Canyon. The last 10 acres, where the buildings had stood, went on the market in November 1990. Paul, Renaud and Andre Veluzat, who owned other Santa Clarita Valley movie properties including a large movie ranch in Haskell Canyon and a motion picture vehicle rental business, bought the property and began rebuilding Melody Ranch to its former glory. Today the ranch is once again alive with feature, television, commercial and video filming, and since 1994 has been the main venue for the city of Santa Clarita's annual Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival.
Not pictured: Rene Veluzat, Paul T.'s eldest son, who is not an owner of Melody Ranch but owns other movie properties in the Santa Clarita Valley.
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Photo by James Fors for the Old Town Newhall Gazette.
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