For the Amenities, Turn on Your TV
- Share via
PARKER, Tex. — For Sale: Ranch with 42 acres. Two-story house, 5,931 sq. ft. Former home of the Ewing family: J. R., Bobby, Jock, Miss Ellie. . . .
Oh, that ranch. Southfork.
“On a deal of this magnitude, I’m not expecting more than 20 serious bidders,” Trey Trammell of Progressive Auctions said of today’s auction.
“It was a thoroughbred breeding farm until Lorimar (Productions) knocked on the door in about ‘78, and you know what happened after that,” former owner J. R. Duncan said.
After Duncan sold the ranch in 1984, it became a tourist attraction, but the owners defaulted on an $8.2-million loan.
Sign up for The Wild
We’ll help you find the best places to hike, bike and run, as well as the perfect silent spots for meditation and yoga.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
