Callahan's Old West
Agua Dulce (Saugus), Calif.

1960s postcard of Callahan's Old West Trading Post.

Back of postcard reads:

Indian Theatre and Village Museum
136-60 Sierra Highway
Mint Canyon, Saugus, Calif.
Hopi Sacred Shrine of worship in which men only enter for meditation, making new vows, tribal regulations and plans for the preservation of Hopi history. Only "Kiva" of its kind outside of an Indian Reservation.
Color Photo by: Louis & Virginia Kay

Amusing description, no? Built by entertainer and novelist Robert E. Callahan, the Indian Village was the equivalent of an amusement park of its day. Callahan operated Mission Village in Los Angeles in the 1950s and moved it to Saugus when a freeway project displaced him.

Postcard purchased 2008 by Leon Worden, donated to SCV Historical Society.

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LW2221: 9600 dpi jpeg from original postcard