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Have you ever visited somewhere because you saw it in a movie?


I just finished watching "The Banshees of Inisherin" and I was like, "I want to go to Ireland now".

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Visited all the Savannah GA places depicted in Forrest Gump and Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil when I was stationed in the Army nearby. It was pretty cool being at the spot where Forrest was waiting for the bus and reflecting on everything that had happened in his life

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Is there a chocolate store near by where you can buy a box?

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The Coronado Hotel near San Diego, which was featured in "The Stunt Man" and other movies. It's quite a pile!

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/4963f1b823e427c1308bf0920d60bda4f45c319c/r=x633&c=1200x630/local/-/media/USATODAY/hotelcheckin/2013/01/28/hotel-del-16_9.jpg

Aspen, Colorado, which I liked enough to revisit, and pretty much everywhere in the LA Basin.

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Looks like a nice resort.

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The Coronado Hotel is on the beach, and is weirdly massive, it's like someone stuck the Winchester Mystery House on the sand. Worth a stop by, if you're in the area, and Coronado is a nice town. I'd love to live there.

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It's featured in an infamous Baywatch episode.

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Why are you watching Baywatch?

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Because it's campy fun.

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It's one of the shows I hate the most.

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It's harmless nonsense, just like Kiss.

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Stop! *plugs ears*

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Also "Some Like It Hot" at "The Del"

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Sort of. I visited the Kwik Stop from the Clerks movies but I had been in that store many times years before the movie when it was a Cumberland Farms store. A relative used to live a few blocks from there.

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I tried to identify where the Five Points from Gangs of New York was. Five Points referred to a neighborhood but also an intersection of three streets (creating five points) in lower Manhattan. I don't recall if there was any kind of marker or plaque, I don't think so. The streets have been reconfigured or renamed and there really is no hint of what once was. I'd say the closest you could get (to where the intersection was) is at Worth & Baxter streets. The Five Points neighborhood as a whole is now partly in the Courthouse district ("Civic Center") and Chinatown.
http://www.nychinatown.org/history/photos/fivepointsmap.gif
http://www.nychinatown.org/history/photos/govchinatownmap.gif

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The Gangs of New York set is one of my favourites. I wonder how accurate it was to the real thing. But I highly doubt that any of it looks remotely the same.

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You can do a Google street view where Worth & Baxter streets meet, you will see the Worth street entrance of 500 Pearl St (Federal Courthouse) and Columbus Park across the street. I doubt there are any surviving remnants of the Five Points, but I don't know for sure. The whole neighborhood was razed/redeveloped over time.

This painting was done 20 years before the opening of the movie, and around 35 years before the main events of the movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan#/media/File:The_Five_Points_MET_DP265419_altered.jpg

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Definitely different. Not even a small monument or anything.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@40.7144087,-74.0005042,3a,75y,333h,91.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQW0Rhl_RewyWr_retvGF1A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

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That park/playground was at one time called Five Points Park
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Park_(Manhattan)

There should be some kind of marker. Even though it was a slum it's still a historic site.

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If Graceland is a historic site, why can't this be?

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A few months ago we had a family trip to Austria, and I planned the day in Salzburg according to shooting locations from The Sound of Music.

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I totally would if I had both the money and the time off of work to do so. Sadly, I don't see that happening in the foreseeable future.

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HI...LIKE YOUR NAME. 👋

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Thank you! 😊

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What would you like to see?

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I would go everywhere and see everything if I could but I'd start with Japan, Sweden, Thailand, and South Korea.

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Japan is too on the top of my list 🇯🇵

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Oh yeah, the Vasquez Rocks in Southern California! Famous for appearing in many episodes of "Star Trek", "Bill and Ted's Bogus Jouirney", many Westerns, and even "The Ten Commandments"!

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sWgKNr6W2Oo/U5Z1LV1vGfI/AAAAAAAAE4Y/JI7kbWYoUd8/s1600/Untitled-3+copy.jpg

I drive to the LA Basin every now and then, and it's less than an hour from t my route, so I've been there a few times. Every time, there seems to be someone there shooting a TV episode or a commercial, or some cosplaying nerds, or just a guy selling "Trek" glossies, some reminder of the rock formation's fabulous past. Highly recommended stopoff for any nerd or film geek in the LA area, as long as it isn't hot out.

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How does anyone even figure this stuff out? "Hey, I know that rock!"

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VASQUEZ ROCKS HAS A PRETTY COOL CAVE...THE CAVE AND THE SHAPE OF THE SURROUNDING ROCKS MAKE IT A COMMON FILMING LOCATION AND EASY TO IDENTIFY IF YOU KNOW IT.

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Every Trekkie knows about the Vasquez Rocks, since about 1/3 of the TOS episodes had scenes filmed there. And you can see the rock formation from a freeway.

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I'm more of a Next Generation fan.

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No but i'd like to visit the Russian Baltic Mountain region where Lyumi was filmed.

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