He would later have his own electrical business where he experimented with and subsequently developed a number of electrical products. By the age of fourteen, Ray Benard was working at a furniture company while studying electronics. “Bernie,” his wife, Ida, and Ray eventually moved west to Denver, Colorado. The founder and namesake of Corriganville was born Ray (not Raymond) Benard in a cottage on the grounds of the Joseph Schlitz Brewery Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on February 14, 1902. Ray Corrigan’s custom black and white gorilla suits the actress is Maris Wrixon in White Pongo (1945). Corriganville became as well known as Knott’s Berry Farm, attracting visitors from across the nation and even from overseas.
Popular western movie hero Ray “Crash” Corrigan provided scheduled western entertainment that drew large crowds. One of approximately forty movie ranches in Southern California that regularly provided scenery and sets for Hollywood’s classic movies and television productions, Corriganville was the only movie ranch that allowed the public to view its operations. History, legend and fantasy all came together at the Ray Corrigan Movie Ranch, known to the public as “Corriganville.” A historic Southern California landscape? A Hollywood dreamscape? Both. May 1999 commemorates the Fiftieth Anniversary of the public’s first view beyond the wagon wheel gates of the Ray Corrigan Movie Ranch in eastern Simi Valley, a tilted landscape of weathered rock, accentuated by huge boulders fringed by groves of coastal and California live oaks, and surrounded by artesian springs and long-traveled byways. 21795 PC, MVC Research and Library collections. A television crew is on the left, an actor is on a horse in the middle, and a truck filled with equipment is on the right. Postcard depicting television production at Corriganville.
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