EL PASO DE ROBLES

IN COWBOY WINE COUNTRY JUST SOUTH SIDEWAYS OF

SUNDANCE A WILD WEST DIGITAL FILM FEST

Festival Producer Benford Standley, Clint Eastwood and Joel Cox

Photo by Richard Bastian

EL PASO DE ROBLES...Found in the hills of the upper Salinas River Valley.  One

has the feelings of the early days of Santa Fe, NM, Austin, Texas...laid back and

beautiful, artistic, picturesque, undiscovered feeling...Victorian-era charm.  For

untold centuries Salinas Indian People enjoyed the area and the thermal springs

in the area that has been  called "Heaven's Spot."  Might say looking at history, it

is the hot springs that is why Paso Robles is here.  And now we have the wine...

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Our goal is to next year get on the

Paso Chamber and Main Street

Asso. event calendars...

PRESS ROOM

photo by Adam Rose

Kyle Eastwood with Clint Eastwood

Photo by Richard Bastian

Rancho Paso de Robles (Spanish for "Pass of Oaks"), was created by a land grant

in 1844.  Couple years after the Civil war,  a half interest in the town site was

purchased by Drury James, the uncle of outlaw Jesse James.  He envisioned an

elegant city offering first-class amenities, with the hot sulfur springs serving as

the main attraction.  The stagecoach line brought customers for the new bath-

house, hotel, and some small cottages built for the bathers.   When the Southern

Pacific Railroad brought the railway to town in 1886, plans for the town went into

high gear. 

Stay tuned to the Jesse James Paso Saga, and more about hot springs and

the Salinas people, underground rivers and more magic here in Paso.  Even talk that

the fly-in restaurant at the airport is the best fly in restaurant in the West, and

James Dean laid in rest, and Marlin Monroe and Joe Demagio ran away on their

weddin' day to hide out...from the press, here in PASO...

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visit website and buy the DVDs...

HOTEL CHEVAL

Photo by Richard Bastian

Martin Scorsese Presents:

The Blues: Piano Blues

A Clint Eastwood Film

Saturday Afternoon Screening

Photo by Richard Bastian

Clint Eastwood arrives alone at the Paso

Robles Inn Ballroom...what an honor.

The Community Power of Film Festivals

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Ramblin' Jack Elliott

photo by Adam Rose

The Jesse James  & the Paso  Saga

MORE AT THE FESTIVAL...

Michael and Kevin Bacon with Macy Powell  and

Kristen Larson from the Paso Robles Inn...

EARLY BIRD

ALL FEST VIP PASS

THE NEW YORK TIMES LISTED PASO ROBLES IN THE TOP PLACES TO VISIT THIS YEAR...YA'LL COME NOW...

Sulfur/Geothermal Spas: Paso Robles has long been known for its hot

sulfur springs. In the 19th and 20th Centuries many visitors came to Paso

Robles for what they believed to be the curative powers of the geothermal

waters. The Salinan Indians—the most historical inhabitants of the area—

were here thousands of years even before the mission era.  They knew this

area as the “Springs” or the “Hot Springs.” The Indians, and later the Mission

Fathers and their congregations, found relief from various ailments in the

therapeutic waters and soothing mud baths, later cam the tourist

and the famous, even baseball teams would come to heal in the springs.

Bruce Ricker, Benford Standley, Clint Eastwood

photo by Adam Rose

An earthquake struck several miles from Paso Robles on December 22, 2003,  The quake registered 6.5 magnitude

on the Richter Magnitude Scale.  The dormant underground springs that had once been used for the spa were brought

back to life by the quake, causing flooding and a sink hole in the parking lot of the city hall/library.  The sinkhole still

requires pumping to move the water from the center of the city to the riverbed, where it is allowed to flow unimpeded.

The sinkhole has also continually released sulfur gas since the earthquake, creating an odor that occasionally lingers

 over the area surrounding the hole.  Seems the city is not sure what to do with this...seems to me

being next to a library and with the city shooting for tourist, this could be made a great stop for tourist and a learning place for kids.

Kevin and Michael Bacon with the ladies from

the Paso Robles High School Resource Program

Paso Robles Weather Forecast

MERCHANDISE

Festival Express

was a magic time in music

Besides bringing a huge soft industry (the movie

and music business) to the area and assisting

the business people to grow and capitalize on

this, the PRDFF will serve as a point of com-

munication and networking of the people

who are already here in Paso Robles that are

in the “biz” and all the support and service

businesses here that could potentially have a

co-beneficial relationship with the music/film

business such as businesses that support

festival production, restaurants, wine tasting-

rooms and wineries, locations, etc...

PRDFF TO HELP KIDS OF PASO AND THE NATION

MAKE MY SATURDAY

Was filled with some Clint Eastwood

Films and Panels with his associates,

ending the day with a special evening with

KYLE EASTWOOD BAND

Stay tuned for our Movie contests online

Rex Pickett, author of SIDEWAYS, the book that

became blockbuster movie, is at a wine festival,

and I had a great time with him that night and

next morning, there is the story about drinking

wine in the trunk of car...I love livin' sideways

in cowboy wine country.

Rex thank you for the SIDEWAYS frame of mind.

MERCHANDISE

Ramblin Jack Elliott, Bernie Taupin, Justin McBride,

John Andrew Parks and Jack Tempchin...what a bunch

Photo by Richard Bastian