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 pointing out that the
actual American West contained numerous ethnic communities that rarely
were depicted in Western entertainment.
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These MC101s found an Autry gallery that depicts
the life of a Chinese-American family in Los Angeles in the 20th Century.
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This dragon is also part of the exhibit on the Chinese community in Los Angeles. |
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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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Is this real or a movie set? This turns out to be an actual 19th Century bar that was reassembled inside the museum. (These are not original 19th century bar patrons, however.) |
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Quite a few of the MC101s congregated on the
lower level to work through their field trip assignment. |
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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. |