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Concrete Cowboys is a 1979 American Western television film starring Jerry Reed and Tom Selleck, directed by Burt Kennedy. It was broadcast on CBS on October 17, 1979.
- The Origins of The Black Riders in Philadelphia
- The Real Urban Black Cowboys of Fletcher Street
- The Real Faces of Concrete Cowboy
- The Battle Against Gentrification and Urban Redevelopment
- Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club Still Faces Existential Threat
When Harp and other Fletcher Street riders in the film gather around a fire, they swap stories of the century-long history of the Black riders in Philadelphia, many of which are based in fact. There are various origin stories of Philadelphia’s Black cowboys, but the community is believed to date back to the early 20th century when Black Southerners...
Black-owned stables have existed on Fletcher Street for more than a century, and the area continues to be a cornerstone for the Black urban cowboy community in Philadelphia. “It’s the root—everything grew out from Fletcher Street,” Ellis Ferrell, the 82-year-old founder of the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club(FSURC) tells TIME. Since the age of 16...
The history of the stables exists largely in the oral storytelling of Black riders who continue to support them today. And these stories, in turn, informed Neri when he was doing research for Ghetto Cowboy in Philadelphia. “Everything that happens in that book happened in another way in real life,” says Neri, who is an executive producer for Concre...
Black horsemen in Philadelphia have been repurposing abandoned warehouses, empty lots and rowhouse shells to stable their horses for decades. But as the town began to gentrify in the 1980s, the city began seizing the property riders had used for years for urban redevelopment. After leading several different stables around the city, Ferrell has been...
With the help of a benefactor, Ferrell was able to acquire three lots for the riding club on Fletcher Street, moving into newly constructed stables in 2019 after the filming of Concrete Cowboy, local news organization Billy Penn reported. But another urban redevelopment plan threatens Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club once again. The empty lot acro...
Filming began in North Philadelphia in August 2019. [11] Staub originally got the idea for the film after seeing a man riding a horse down a Philadelphia street, which led him to research the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club and the discovery of Neri's book. [12]
Apr 8, 2021 · Concrete Cowboy was filmed at the Fletcher Street stables, and riders from the Fletcher Street community are cast in the movie. Real-life riders in the cast include Ivannah Mercedes, who...
Apr 11, 2021 · But they’re also the reality in parts of north Philly, where the movie was filmed and a subculture of urban Black cowboys has existed for more than a century.
Apr 2, 2021 · ‘Concrete Cowboy’ was filmed on location in North Philadelphia in and around August 2019. To portray the neighborhoods of North Philadelphia authentically, the production crew decided to film it on location instead of trying to recreate the predominantly black and culturally deep neighborhoods elsewhere.
Apr 2, 2021 · The club has existed in some form or other for over a century. However, Netflix has made clear that the film is not officially associated with the club itself. But Concrete Cowboy did film in...
