OLANCHA WAS LOCATION IN A 1960 TWILIGHT ZONE
SOME INYO HISTORY . . . Season 2, Episode 23 of the Twilight Zone was filmed in Olancha, at a now old building, still standing, on the east side of Highway 395. In the 1960 filming it was actually Frank & Ann’s Airflight Cafe. (Changed to Joe’s Airflight Cafe for the show.) In the episode, “100 Yards Over the Rim” a pioneer from an 1847 wagon train sets off to find something for his ill son and stumbles into the present-day diner (1960). Cliff Robertson starred, along with Ed Platt (Get Smart), and John Astin (Addams Family) . The wagon train sequences were filmed out in the Ola...