Thread: Hot rod movies in your town?

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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

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