- Arch Hall, Sr. was raised in South Dakota and met his wife while they were both radio announcers there. Arch Sr. was fascinated with Native American culture and beliefs and was accepted by the Oglala Sioux, even learning to speak their language. "Watogola Oaskshilla – Wild Boy" was his adopted Sioux name.

- Arch Sr.'s army life as a pilot during World War II was the basis of the 1961 comedy The Last Time I Saw Archie, directed by Jack Webb (of Dragnet fame) and starring Robert Mitchum as Hall. Eventually Hall Sr. sued the filmmakers.

- Arch Hall, Sr. appeared in early b-movie westerns during the 1930's and 1940's alongside John Wayne (most notably in 1938's Overland Stage Raiders), "Crash" Corrigan, and Gene Autry.

- After the war, Arch Sr. dabbled in many professions before he became a film producer: he worked in the radio business in Los Angeles, he built houses in the San Fernando Valley – calling his company Cozy Homes, and was the owner of a small trucking business called "Hall and Company".

- Arch Sr. created Fairway International as a way to make movies and music. Soundtracks were recorded in offices and in one instance, the Men's restroom.

- Arch Sr. was reportedly offered a studio position at Warner Brothers, but he turned it down in favor of being his own boss. - After Hall Sr. passed away from a heart attack in 1978, his body was buried in South Dakota with full cooperation with the Sioux Nation.

- Arch Hall, Sr. went by the pseudonyms "Nicholas Merriwether" and "William Watters" for the making of Wild Guitar. He decided to use pen names for himself in his movies because he claimed it made him look like "a one man band" in the credits, like "there was more to the production company than one or two guys staying up late at night".

- The soundstage at Fairway International was a former drugstore that was owned by Arch Hall, Sr. According to legend, a young Natalie Wood visited the store frequently to buy candy.

- Arch Jr. claimed to have become obsessed with blues when he was 11 or 12 and quickly began to write songs and sing. In 1959, he recorded two songs: "Konga Joe" and "Monkey in My Hatband", and they were both issued as a single on Steve Allen's Signature record label.

- Arch Hall, Sr. felt that he was being cheated out of money by the drive in owners during the exhibition of his films. According to legend, Father Hall made a surprise visit to a Deep South drive in and took a Colt .45 pistol with him. The distributor apparently wined and dined him so much that he forgot the original purpose of his visit. However, right before he left he told the distributor that "he should consider himself a lucky man, as [he] had brought a gun with [him] in [his] briefcase and had been in a mindset to do whatever had to be done" and that he "better clean up his act when dealing with Fairway Films".

- Hall Jr. once said, "I was 15 years old and I had friends in Southern California, including Bobby Diamond, who was the boy in the TV series Fury, and I asked him, 'What is this acting thing about? Is it real hard?' and he said, 'F**k, no! It's easy.'"

- In his youth, Arch Jr. reportedly dated Susan Sherman, the young daughter of famed Hollywood director George Sherman.

- Arch Jr. was the front man of Arch Hall Jr. and the Archers. The band had played such notable rock clubs as the Whiskey A Go-Go and Pandora's Box. The Archers also backed soul singer Dobie Gray (who had a hit with the song "The In Crowd"). Archers drummer Alan O'Day went on later to write hits for the Righteous Brothers, Three Dog Night, The Fifth Dimension, Helen Reddy, and Cher, and contributed music to Jim Henson's Muppet Babies. O'Day had his own hit, "Undercover Angel" which went to Number 1 in the spring/summer of 1977.

- Hall Jr. reportedly "gave most [of his] great old guitars away" after he left show business, a decision he apparently now regrets.

- Arch Hall, Jr. became fascinated with flying during his Fairway International years and left the showbiz world to become a pilot in the late 1960's. He worked for Flying Tiger Airlines, the industry's top cargo-only carrier for many years. FedEx purchased the company in 1989 and Arch Jr. remained a pilot for them until his retirement in 2003. He continues to fly for private companies and now resides in Florida.

- Hall, Jr. published the book Apsara Jet, written under the pen name "Nicolas Merriweather", the pseudonym his father used for Wild Guitar.

- John Travolta was one of the more famous people to have read Hall Jr.'s book, Apsara Jet and thought about turning it into a movie, but declined at the last minute.

- Another Fairway International production entitled Eegah! (1962) was featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 1993.

Steckler's photography credits include ABC's Wild World of Sports, Warner Brothers television show The Professionals, The World's Greatest Sinner and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

- Steckler was fired from Alfred Hitchcock Presents for nearly hitting Hitch with an A-frame.

- Other low budget film credits to his name are The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964), Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1966) and Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters (1965). He also directed the video for Jefferson Airplane's song "White Rabbit."

Steckler acted under the name "Cash Flagg", a name he came up with because he would frequently write checks out to "cash". Other pseudonyms used by Steckler included "Wolfgang Schmidt", "Cindy Lou Sutters", and "Sven Christian".

- One famous story about Steckler revealed that he left a pile of his clearly labeled film prints on the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles, just to see if anyone would want his masterpieces. An hour later he returned and found that nobody had touched them.

- Steckler ran a video store in Las Vegas, Nevada called Mascot Video.

Sources:
AFI
www.briansdriveintheatre.com/archhalljr.html
The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film
drmysterian.com/2005/07/konga-joe-arch-hall-jr.html
en.wikipedia.org
www.pitchforkmedia.com
www.crazedfanboy.com
www.commercialappeal.com
itsgreatshakes.blogspot.com

Compiled by Millie de Chirico