Our Tuesday afternoon outing began in the plaza next to the museum
entrance.
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The Autry National
Center is an appropriate place for a Mass Comm 101 field trip. It
compares the media version of the American West with the actual West.
Our Tuesday afternoon outing began in the plaza next to the museum
entrance. |
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The Autry does a good job of presenting both the
actual American West and the entertainment version of the American West.
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This exhibit sought to depict saloon life s it actually
was versus how it is portrayed in the movies. This style of bar was called
the Los Angeles Bar.
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We looked at artifacts from the actual American
West. It was hard to tell them from the movie props. |
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This dragon was part of an exhibit on the Chinese community in Los Angeles. |
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The Wild West featured more than its share of marginal characters. These latter-day desperados made their way into the jail exhibit on the museum's lower level. |
