"Legend Never Dies"™ Blog

Check you local station listing across America. The new documentary, “The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club” is being shown all over the country. We have heard from folks in Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois and Massachusetts! Can’t say went it may be on your local station but keep looking if you haven seen it, or better… [Read More]

For the second time, “The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club,” the outstanding, award-winning* documentary makes an ENCORE on KOCE-TV PBS station in the greater Los Angeles/Orange County area tongiht, Sunday, April 25th at 11:00PM. The ‘buzz’ the film has generated is substantial, as over 100 PBS/American Public Television stations around the country are preparing to… [Read More]

After a mysterious blaze in November 1953 ravaged Pancho Barnes’ Happy Bottom Riding Club, word quickly spread that Pancho had lost ‘everything.’ Or so folks were told… It was true that she lost several buildings, two Dalmatians, aviation trophies and awards, priceless papers, photographs and many personal possessions and furnishings too numerous to list in the destructive fire. But like… [Read More]

KOCE-TV PBS Television, Huntington Beach, will ENCORE the award-winning documentary, “The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club” on Tuesday evening, April 20th at 9:00 p.m., and a second ENCORE presentation on Sunday night, April 25th at 11:00 p.m. KOCE-TV, the nation’s sixth-most-watched public television station, is proud to have supported the creation of this dynamic documentary,… [Read More]

The Pancho Barnes Trust Estate Archive is privately owned. The archive contains photographs, negatives, letters, as well as film, voice recordings, pilot logs, court and legal papers, depositions, bank checks, master recordings of her songs, and other materials documenting the life and times of Pancho Barnes. The good news is that, evidently, Pancho never threw anything away. Despite the fact… [Read More]

After several award-winning and sold-out theatrical screenings, “The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club” makes its National Television Debut on Thursday night, April 15th at 8:00PM on southern California PBS station KOCE-TV. Considered to be one of the best fliers of the 20th Century, Pancho Barnes is an American Legend waiting to be discovered. A new… [Read More]

WELCOME to the “Official” blog of Pancho Barnes and the Estate of Pancho Barnes. Pancho Barnes (1901 – 1975) is considered by many to be one of the 20th century’s greatest American characters. During her lifetime, Pancho (born Florence Leontine Lowe) gained respect for her intelligence, individuality, outsized personality, creativity, entrepreneurship, humor, generosity and integrity. A legend in the aviation… [Read More]