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May 23, 2000 · Advance praise for The Happy Bottom Riding Club "The hard-drinking, sexually promiscuous pilot and adventuress Florence 'Pancho' Barnes exploded every feminine stereotype on the books. Thank you, Lauren Kessler, for telling her story with the grace and exuberance it deserves."
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) was reknowned for her individuality, outsized personality, creativity, entrepreneurship, humor, generosity and integrity. A legend in the aviation community, she was one of ...
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club. Legend of Pancho Barnes chronicles the thrilling life and extraordinary times of aviation pioneer Florence 'Pancho' Barnes, one of the most colorful and accomplished female pilots of the early 20th Century, and an ill-behaved woman who made hist. 257 IMDb 8.6 1 h 4 min 2011.
How it Came to be "Happy Bottom". One of the most charming, humorous and memorable moments in Pancho Barnes’ life, was when she re-christened the rather conventional-sounding Rancho Oro Verde the “Happy Bottom Riding Club”. A luscious, suggestive name, “Happy Bottom Riding Club” was pure Pancho. When the locals in nearby Lancaster ...
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I loved every minute of this documentary about the amazing life of Pancho Barnes. I first heard about Pancho Barnes and her Happy Bottom Riding Club in the move “The Right Stuff”. Her place in that movie was important but peripheral to the story. It only gave the smallest hint of her amazing life.
Known as the "Happy Bottom Riding Club", it became the epicenter of the aviation world during the early jet age. Chuck Yeager celebrated breaking the sound barrier there in 1947, and Howard Hughes and Jimmy Doolittle caroused in the bar. The Club's destruction by fire in 1953 is seen by many to mark the end of a Golden Era in post-WWII aviation.
