Iverson Movie Ranch

Joe Iverson was my uncle. Went to visit in the 50’s and 60’s. Took my husband to visit Joe’s widow in 1971. I remember drinking out of the spring in a tin cup. I looked for the alligator rock like everyone else.
In the 2000’s I met a man in Ohio that was Louise Coffeys nephew. Talk about small world!!

Eddie Dean: My father was long time manager of his, Don Bradley.. My father passed.. we located Eddie Dean Items.... If anyone is interested. please contact me.. Devin_wooldridge@yahoo.com

Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth area was a part of my childhood in the late 1940's through 1969, when I graduated from CSU Northridge. My Swedish grandfather, Frederick A. Soderberg, was good friends with Aaron Iverson (and wife Betsy Iverson) and Joe Iverson (and wife Eva Iverson), and was a relative to Augusta Wageman, a Swedish grandmother to Aaron and Joe. F.A Soderberg and his wife Hannah Soderberg (maiden name Hannah Soderstrom) would drive my brother and I to the ranch to meet with Aaron and Betsy, who were both farmers at heart, and with Joe and Eva, who liked the benefits that money provided by allowing the ranch to be used for filming movies, and later TV series. In the 1940's-1960's, Joe and Aaron were co-owners of the Iverson Movie Ranch. F.A. Soderberg was a carpenter and later a building contractor who built some of the movie sets on the ranch. It was fun watching them make movies and meeting some of the movie actors like Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger), Jay SIlverheels (the Lone Ranger's Indian friend), Buster Crabbe and other actors. The movie ranch was ideal for making movies, such as westerns because the abundant large boulders and interesting scenic terrain. Cowboys and Indians could easily leap from the boulders onto stagecoaches and horses passing by.