The park was opened on Memorial Day weekend 1966 by photography studio magnate Myron M. "Mike" Weiss, Sr. as a built-to-scale Dodge City, Kansas, complete with a saloon, general store, Pony Express office, opera house and casino, undertaker, and barber shop, highlighted by cowboy actors who staged gunfights at high noon.
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One of Crump's lieutenants in the black community was funeral director N. J. Ford, whose family (in the persons of sons Harold Sr. and John Ford, daughter Ophelia and grandson Harold, Jr.) is still influential in Memphis politics today.
He later had a recurring role as funeral director, Mr. Omar, on the TV sitcom Everybody Hates Chris.
Among other films, Keith has acted in four films by the Coen brothers; he played an FBI Agent in the Coen brother's film Raising Arizona and the fastidious funeral director in The Big Lebowski.