Thread: Hot rod movies in your town?

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Yeah, I'm from the town nobody has been too. But we have movie history here. Petaluma, chicken capital of the world at one point, but what we really are famous for is background footage to some great films involving hot rods. American Graffetti was film on the Blvd. a few blocks from here. Harrison ford cruised the main drag. Henry Winkler spun out his trans am in the Movie Heroes, just around the corner.. So pass on your movie trivia, love to hear it!

benny and joon, vision quest, hangmans curse<and one other one starts out with a guy in a shrinks office overlooking riverfront park wearing a mining hat > all filmed here in spokane admittedly no of those are hot rod movies, but hey movies nonetheless lol

My PREVIOUS home town, Gary, Indiana, No movies that I'm aware of, but it did hold the title "Murder Capital 0f the WORLD" for 8 years in a row!!!

WAIT!!!!! I forgot, "A Chistmas Carol", the one with the Red Rider BB gun, was filmed in Gary, (before it got bad!!) Sorry, not a CAR movie, but a classic none the less.

C+ Plus Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing exciting ever happened here in Sullivan Co. other than a little get together almost 40 years ago. It was called Woodstock. Hank

Cottage Grove, where Belushi and his buddies did a chop job on Flounder's brother's Merk and ran rampart on the parade at the end of Animal House!

I thought Petaluma was most famous (infamous?)for that arm wrestling scene used weekly on Wide World of Sports. Same Petaluma?

Fort Myers hasn't been in many movies, but we are featured on "COPS" quite a bit! Anytime you see some car thief or drug dealer running his butt off with a cop close behind, it probably was filmed here. Look for the palm trees.

Don

Originally Posted by stovens

Yeah, I'm from the town nobody has been too. But we have movie history here. Petaluma, chicken capital of the world at one point, but what we really are famous for is background footage to some great films involving hot rods. American Graffetti was film on the Blvd. a few blocks from here. Harrison ford cruised the main drag. Henry Winkler spun out his trans am in the Movie Heroes, just around the corner.. So pass on your movie trivia, love to hear it!

Your neck of the woods is well known by some ,........its where Terrence Mckenna did a little gig at...........

My home town, Betterton, Maryland (pop. 300 winter)., It is (was?) a beach town. Hopping with tourist in the summer, dead as a stone in winter. We had a liquor store (county owned), a post office, a fire hall, but no movie theater. No movies were ever made there, except home movies and most of those were boring as hell.

Had to drive 12 miles to see a movie and get popcorn dropped on your head from idiots in the balcony. Closest thing to cars was Friday and Saturday nights at the Tastee-Freeze or going out Flatland Road for the drags (illegal of course). The race in American Graffiti always reminds me of Flatland Road.

Wonder if they are still doing it there? My time was 45 years ago, it probably runs through a residential area now.

A couple of the 50's drive ins here, not sure if either are the one filmed in the movie are closed now. The A and W finally closed and was turned into a greek restaurant, then a italian restaurant. I believe Chubby's in Cotati was a hopping place for rodders until the highway I believe, was expanded forcing them to move into a strip mall, not a drive in, still good food!
We had a few other movies filmed here like Explorers, Basic Instinct(wish I was around for the famous scene!), Peggy Sue got Married, Inventing the Abbotts and Flubber.
This is a great web link to American Graffetti with maps of what was filmed where. http://www.americangraffiti.net/salute_celebration.html
I had a sureal experience with this one night when I was driving home late from work. As I drove up the main Blvd, it was foggy, with a wierd glow to the lights. All the people on the streets were dressed in 1930's attire. There were old cars and trucks parked in front of building. An old shoe repair has a sign with Klondike 301 or some such phone number. At first I was thinking I'd entered the Twilight Zone. No Film Crews, just fog, people and wierd light from above the buildings. As I turned up a block, everything was normal. I guess thay were on a break from shooting right as I pulled up, so everyone was just window shopping, like they lived here. Very wierd but very cool!
Shawnlee28
I never heard of Terrance Mckenna
went to the wikipedia. Interesting life, sort of a Carlos Castennada!

A friend just emailed this link, thought it was so funny I'm passing it along, interupting my own thread!
http://www.jdbshow.com/badsign.html

This area (Tucson/Tombstone/Bisbee) has bee used for a fair amount of movies over the years.

The remake of vanishing point was made up around the Tucson area.

I'm not real sure because I can't find the credits for locations but I think the highway stuff for California Kid were shot on the way to Bisbee (it sure looks like the mule mountain tunnel in the chase scenes).

The old 64 Ford I have (along with several other local cars) was used as a background car in a made for TV Movie called Jessie.

Then there was a B type action movie where a portion was shot in front of my house about 10 years ago. There was an old Malibu chasing a kid on a bicycle down the side of a hill along the side of my property. The end of the scene involved the car doing a 360 degree roll at the bottom of the hill. (apparently it ended up being on cable I guess…never got to see it).

There has been a few movies made here in western north carolina and north georgia.. thunder road a 1958 film about hauling moonshine was made in asheville NC..The journey of august king,,The last of the mohicans ,,Winter people,,Neil,,Dirty dancing,,Black dog,, Smokey and the bandit,, these are just a few movies made near here.. I'm expecting a movie to be made about eric rudolph the guy who bombed the 1996 olympics centianal park and the alabama abortion clinic then hide in our mtns for 5 years from the FBI and local law enforcenments until a rookie cop caught him digging in trash behind a local grocery store here in murphy.. stovens that pretty cool that american graffiti was filmed near you , thats one of my favorite movies of all times!!