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Ace Cain Property  29046 Sand Canyon  Built date on Assessor's website listed as
                      1963, but there are actually a couple of houses on the lot.  Both appear to be older than
                     that.  This one seems to be 1920s vintage.
















































                                                               This one reportedly belonged to Ace
                                                               Cain.  Ace Cain was born Horace
                                                               Truman Cain in Chickasaw Nation,
                                                               Oklahoma on August 23, 1903. He died
                                                               May 18, 1973 at Saugus, California and
                                                               was buried at Eternal Valley Memorial
                                                               Park, Newhall, California.


                      He married Beatress "Skeeter" Willys in the early 1930's, and they remained together his
                      entire life.  He donned the black cowboy hat and dark clothes and did his best to make the
                      movie audiences hate him. Being about six and a halffeet tall and weighing in at 240, he
                      made an excellent bad guy, doing his own fights, falls, and stunts. The minor B-westem
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