paso robles, california

EL PASO DE ROBLES,

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

IN COWBOY WINE COUNTRY JUST SOUTH SIDEWAYS OF

SUNDANCE A WILD WEST DIGITAL FILM FEST WILL TAKE

PLACE JUST OUT OF TOWN IN THE WINE COUNTRY...

Wow, how do we top this? Eastwood and Cox...

Festival Producer Benford Standley, Clint Eastwood and Joel Cox

Photo by Richard Bastian

It is all about the film, the music and the wine

Take a digital ride with us to the first Wild West

Digital Film Fest this year will knock your boots

off here in cowboy wine country, just South and

Sideways of Sundance

Wine, Wine and Wine

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...

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 was headed her on that fateful ride, and Marlin Monroe and Joe

Demagio ran away on their weddin' day to hide out...from the press, here in PASO...

HISTORY LINK FOR MORE ON SALOONS, INDIANS,

MUSIC AND HOT SPRINGS OF PASO ROBLES

pioneertroubadours.com/pine_st_saloon_history.htm

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Film and Wine Festival as

a Winery or as a Sponsor...

high website traffic

Panel discusses Clint Eastwood's

Company Malpaso, with some close

friends and associates...see on the DVD

Photo by Richard Bastian

Clint Eastwood arrives alone at the Paso

Robles Inn Ballroom...what an honor.

HELP THE KIDS

Stay tuned for locations around

Paso Robles where you can

see some independent films

in special settings, including

Franklin Hot Springs...suggest

locations to us and we will help

you with films to screen...

Kevin and Michael Bacon with the ladies from

the Paso Robles High School Resource Program

Jesse James & the Paso Saga

LET'S MAKE SOME MOVIES IN PASO

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,

thePDFF will serve as a point of communication

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...

FRANKLIN

SPRINGS

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

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

tells that Jesse James healed some gunshot wounds in the water of the

springs downtown Paso Robles.

Norm Franklin tells about Franklin Hot Springs and some of the

chemical and history of the healing water of the hot springs in this area.

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. Go figure, why they want to spend millions to cover it up...some cities would pay millions for a hot spring in the middle of town...