Twin Cities Saloon

09/01/2026

ALL DAY WINGS!

08/30/2026

08/26/2026

There’s been a picture of Dolly Parton and Jimmy Hughes hanging on the wall here at the Twin Cities for years.

Today, it feels a little different. 💔

It’s hard to put into words what made Dolly so damn special. She came from almost nothing and built an extraordinary life, without ever seeming to forget where she came from, or who she was.

She was talented beyond measure, funny, smart, generous, wildly ambitious, unapologetically feminine and completely herself. She proved you could be soft and tough, glamorous and humble, successful and kind, all at the same time.

I loved her story. I loved her spirit. And I loved the way she moved through this world.

We’re pretty proud that a little piece of Dolly history has a home on our wall in Longview.

Rest easy, Dolly. The world was a whole lot brighter with you in it. 🤍

08/17/2026

Summer is not over!! It’s 5:00 somewhere. Meet us on the patio!

08/11/2026

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He started as a $25 animal rider extra on a Hollywood set. Then he spent five decades building the most authentic Western film production operation in Canadian history.
Born and raised in Alberta Canada, John Scott grew up with rodeo and ranch life as his first language — the kind of hands-on cowboy upbringing that most Hollywood productions spend millions trying to recreate and never quite get right. He was one of those rare men who understood animals the way most people understand words — completely and without translation needed. Bears. Deer. Wild boar. Cattle. Snakes. Buffalo. Musk ox. Camels. Chimps. Eagles. Cats. Dogs. Whatever the production needed John Scott could provide it and work safely alongside it.
He arrived in Hollywood in the 1970s as an animal rider extra making twenty five dollars a day. He had something nobody in the casting office could manufacture — the real thing. Horses responded to him the way they respond to people who have spent their whole lives earning that trust. Directors noticed. Producers called back. The twenty five dollar extra became a stunt coordinator whose credits span five decades of major Hollywood productions.
He became one of the original founders of Stunts Canada in 1970 — helping build the professional infrastructure that made Canadian stunt work internationally respected and kept productions from having to import American crews. He holds cards in SAG, ACTRA, the Directors Guild of Canada, Teamsters Local 362 and IATSE Local 212 — the full professional credentials of a man who built himself from the ground up across every department that mattered.

He worked alongside Gene Hackman. Burt Lancaster. Paul Newman. Roy Rogers. The kind of actors who demanded authenticity in their Westerns and found it in one Alberta cowboy who had never once needed to fake what he knew.
He received the Calgary Stampede Pioneer of Rodeo Award in 2018 alongside Kevin Costner as parade marshals at the 2022 Stampede — a recognition from the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth that said everything about the respect he had earned across five decades. In 2025 he was inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence — one of his province's highest civilian honors — for the economic and cultural impact his production company brought to Alberta across half a century of film and television work.
His Scott Ranch near Longview Alberta is unlike anything else in Western Canada. A fully operational ranch with a Western Town built specifically for film locations. Warehouses full of props and set decoration. The largest collection of wagons and buggies in Western Canada. A fleet of trucks and trailers for moving animals and equipment. A premier supply of buffalo and longhorn for productions that need the real thing and not a photograph of it.
He once described the early days of stunt work simply — when he asked veterans how to protect himself they handed him a gunny sack filled with straw wrapped around his legs with twine. He looked at what the technology became — high-tech blow-up ankle supports, modern hockey equipment protecting the body — and shook his head with the grin of a man who survived the old way and appreciates the new one.
Alberta's cowboy. Hollywood's secret weapon. Five decades of bringing the American West to the screen with the kind of authenticity that only a man raised in it can deliver.
That is John Scott. 🤠🎬🏆