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Harvest Time has the "Old Man" in it on the Broken Arrow Ranch in Half Moon Bay. Hopefully it'll go to the Neil Young Archives after it's limited theater run. Neil joked in the movie that he was a "rich hippie."
Young wrote this about the caretaker of the ranch he bought in 1970. The song compares a young man's life to an old man's and shows that the old man was once like this young man.
The caretaker of the that cattle ranch? His name was Louis Avila. The ranch was the Broken Arrow Ranch, purchased for $350,000 in 1970 (just think about those real estate prices compared to now!). Reportedly, Avila was giving Young a tour of the place and asked him how a young man like him could afford a place like this. Young, aged 25, replied "Just lucky, Louie, just real lucky." Avila was quite bemused.
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