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Friday, Sept. 6, 1963
THE SOUTHKBN ISRAELITE
Page Three
SUNSET ROCK DUDE RANCH
Dream Business in the (Cumberland Mountains
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A challenge, the dream of a
five-year-old girl and the ro
mance of the Old West have been
combined to provide contest rodeo
on top of the Cumberland Moun
tains in an entertainment enter
prise which is unusual for the
area.
ReuBen Komisar, a former
Nashville businessman, decided in
1959 that he had much rather
wrangle horses and fight the
to Rea a short time after they
entered service. She continued
operating the ranch as a hobby
and in 1953 bought the land from
Tom Sneed.
Sunset Rock Dude Ranch was
opened in 1961
Bea was raised in Chicago and
had her first camping and out
door living experience when she
went to a campfire girls camp as
a five-year-old
“I was homesick and felt aw-
Bea and ReuBen komisar
problems of the outdoors than op
erate one of the largest furniture
stores in Nashville.
ReuBen and his wife Bea left
their $60,000 home on Woodmont
Blvd., packed their bags and
headed for the mountains to live
in primitive surroundings and
operate a summer camp.
Bea had been operating Camp
Belle Aire since 1950 when she
had gone there to help Alfred
and Ralph Jaffee out of a jam
when they were drafted.
The Jaffee twins transferred
their interest in Camp Bell Aire
fully afraid my first day in the
camp. The next day I felt real
big and started my first wood
craft project, a drift wood plan
ter. When I finished the planter
I knew I had started to grow up,"
Bea tells anyone who will lis
ten.
“The greatest thing my parents
ever did for me was to send me
to a camp and acquaint me with
nature and its blessings. I was
an only child and was spoiled
rotten until I learned to live with
other children and dream of a
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camp of my own," Mrs. Komisar
says.
The listener can see a little girl
with fears, selfishness, and frus
trations grow into a happy wo
man as Bea relates the many
thrills of her years of outdoor
living. She also paints a picture
of a young woman studying phy
sical education and choosing the
outdoors as a career because of
a dream that had become a part
of her life when she was five.
Just as business had been no
easy road for ReuBen, camp
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counseling was not an easy task
for Bea. She spent ten years as
an unpaid camp employee before
she bought Camp Belle Aire and
started getting paid for the work
she loved.
When the Komisars left their
business and luxurious home to
operate the ranch they felt a
challenge to build a real Old West
atmosphere.
Marty, the Komisar’s son, en
tered an amateur rodeo and won
some prizes. Marty’s success as
a cowboy created a desire for
rodeo as a regular sport.
No regular rodeo was available
in the area and the Komisars
spent thousands of dollars to
bring contest rodeo to the Cum
berland Mountains.
Every Saturday and Sunday,
spectators from all over Tennes
see can witness cowboys from the
hills compete with cowboys from
the city and the west for prize
money.
The rodeo which is east of
Sparta on US Highway 70S is
open at 8 p. m. Saturday and at
2:30 p. m. Sunday.
The Komisars like to please the
spectators and go out of their way
to surprise the fans. One week,
for instance, the proceeds of the
show went for a $750 color tele
vision set which will be given to
some lucky spectator, Sunday aft
ernoon a $25 cash prize was
given.
Rain is always a problem, §nd
when it rains at show time the
program is moved ahead to the
next scheduled day. If it rains
and the contestants cannot ride
and compete on Saturday the
program is changed to Sunday.
“We love rodeo, in fact, I al
most have to fight Bea to keep
her from riding. Debbie Sue, our
12-year-old daughter, broke her
leg riding, but she was on hand
the next Saturday night. We have
spent thousands of dollars making
a go of mountain rodeo, simply
because we love the sport and en
tertaining people at Sunset Rock
Dude Ranch,” ReuBen said.
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