Four Aces

"Four Aces" Exterior shot

Welcome to Four Aces Movie Ranch!: (From "Four Aces" website ^{[Source 1]})

Our classic Americana road stop set is located about an hour northeast of Los Angeles in the Antelope Valley. The area is home to one of California’s most cinematic deserts. Our professional movie set features a 1940’s style diner, a smoky honky-tonk bar, a Route 66 style gas station and an atomic age roadside motel. All sets are richly detailed and dressed with authentic period props and are ‘ready to shoot’. We are surrounded by lonely highways, rocky mountain ranges, dry river beds, and ancient Joshua trees (rattlesnakes and coyotes included).

The sun shines nearly year-round and working conditions are perfect, as there are no immediate neighbors. While our setting has that ‘middle of nowhere’ feel, we are only minutes away from hotels, restaurants, and support services in the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster.

Please explore our set galleries and contact us for further information.

Jan-Peter Flack

jp@4-aces.com

14499 E Ave. Q, Palmdale, CA 93591

323.821.4466

The Four Aces was used as the movie set for NCIS: Judgement Day, Parts 1 and 2, (Air date: 5/20/2008)

A Personal Note from Robin

The picture above right shows how Avenue Q in Palmdale looks today. It is the same as it was in 1955 (except the road has been repaved.). My readers should visit Jan-Peter's website and take a slow stroll around his 'movie ranch'.

It is five blocks north and 13 miles east of where we lived when I went to high school in Palmdale.

On Saturdays, we make a picnic basket, grab our .22 rifles, and ride our bikes about fifteen miles (ninety minutes) to visit my grandfather Ted Elder's ranch. A stop at Four Aces for a quick lunch, bathroom break, and a bottle of NEHI orange soda before continuing east.

We would spend the entire day protecting California's eastern frontier from all "alien, foreign, and domestic" invaders. In the afternoon, we would swim in Ted's reservoir and BBQ and roast marshmallows at dusk.

It was a long, distant time ago.

I last visited the Four Aces (again) in 2009 on a visit to Palmdale.

Thanks to Jan-Peter, this piece of my memories is being kept alive.