My experience summers (for 2 weeks or more reminded me a lot of this movie) from the time I was 5 years old (for 6 weeks) there with my father at Shasta Springs (near Dunsmuir) President Teddy Roosevelt stayed there too around the early 1900s when people mostly went there by train and there was a tram up to the location of Shasta springs there above the railroad tracks about 1000 feet in elevation or so. So, as a child with friends from age 5 like me to 11 or so we were set loose on church property (Shasta Springs) and would go down to the railroad tracks and walk the tracks down to Mossbrae falls closer to dunsmuir. We had many adventures sort of like the boys in "Stand By Me" and someone always had access to a gun back then sort of like in the movie. If you were over 4 years old you were expected to be safe around guns in 1953 when I was 5. It wasn't just expected of you, it was demanded of you.(or else) So, you were safe around guns (or else). You were held accountable sort of like a man when it came to guns by age 4 to 6 then. It was traditional for 400 or more years by then and just a normal part of the culture of being an American West of the Rockies. Sort of like "Cowboy Rules".
Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell.
Based on: The Body; by Stephen King
Production company: Act III Productions
Produced by: Bruce A. Evans; Andrew Scheinman
Box office: $52.3 million
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