SAN VICENTE CHUPADEROS, Dgo. (OEM) .- Practically in oblivion are the film sets of San Vicente de Chupaderos, which gave Durango so much glory in its projection as Tierra del Cine and which now seems to no longer be remembered or kept that tradition of several decades.
When taking a tour of this site, more like a ghost town, for its constructions that have come to less than a place that gave splendor and represented the arrival of many economic resources to the entity, the gallows with a rope in very good been, in front of what was the old chapel of many films.
In front of these facilities, the neighbor María Alejandrina López Montes points out that for several years the wooden facilities began to deteriorate, especially after the integrated neighborhood committee to manage the space ceased to function.
Those great films that were made in the place remained in history, starting in 1954 with “Pluma Blanca” and with the presence of the most sought-after actors in American cinema, including Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, the Chihuahuan Anthony Quinn, the recently deceased Sean Connery, the “man called a horse” Richard Harris, Kevin Costner, but especially John Wayne, who left a great legacy in his filmography with Durango stamp.
María Alejandrina stressed that those inhabited places on the set have the advantage that if a board falls the owner replaces it, the problem is those who are alone and the deterioration by natural meteors such as rain, sun, wind and lack of use that finish with the wood.
“About nine years ago the neighbors were organized, there was a board of directors, now unfortunately it is no longer and it is not so easy for one to maintain the place.
The government does not say that it will not help, but it does not turn to look at us at all, it has us abandoned, “” said María as she carried out her cleaning work outside the place where she lives, in front of the chapel.
As the minutes passed and a brief tour of the main street was made, the arrival of a family was observed that came to be distracted a bit and toured the site full of a glorious past but ruined by a governmental disinterest.
“They no longer turn to see us,” echoes the lapidary phrase of López Montes, a neighbor of San Vicente de Chupaderos located 14 kilometers from the city of Durango, a short distance from a younger cowboy town full of visitors and resources, who it took the visitor’s interest but never the glamor that world-class artists left in Chupaderos.
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