# Hey, I've been there! (Movie Locations) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391 "2019-08-29T02:06:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/181 "2019-09-12T18:28:14Z")
One more I forgot to mention in my last post: Chimney Rock Park and Lake Lure in North Carolina, where much of _Dirty Dancing_ was filmed. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/182 "2019-09-12T19:07:35Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > One more I forgot to mention in my last post: Chimney Rock Park and Lake Lure in North Carolina, where much of _Dirty Dancing_ was filmed. Yup, my planning internship included that area, which was also used for parts of Last of the Mohicans. Every time I watch that film I miss my days on the Blue Ridge. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/183 "2019-09-12T21:15:00Z")
San Francisco is full of film/TV locations, but the favorite I recognized (and then looked up to be sure) is the butcher shop in \*So I Married an Axe Murderer \*. Not there any longer, but a local establishment for many years. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/184 "2019-12-08T23:02:01Z")
At the end of this past Friday night’s episode of _Hawaii Five-0_, some of the characters ended up at Hy’s Steakhouse, on the other end of Waikiki from us. You can clearly see the Hy’s logo on the menus they’re holding. I’ve mentioned Hy’s before, in the thread for expensive meals, as the wife and I celebrated our 25th anniversary there in June, with the final bill including tip topping $400. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/185 "2019-12-08T23:57:51Z")
From the movie ‘Wall Street’ ( 1987 ). The aircraft maintenance hangar where Bud Fox goes to talk to his father. I worked for the FBO that used hangar and worked many and day ( and night ) there. For the movie they put different planes in there and “Bluestar-ized” everything, and the whole place was made strictly off limits to us employees. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/186 "2019-12-09T00:02:26Z")
I mentioned it in the thread on cult movies, but _Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death_ (a classic!) was filmed at the Botanical Gardens of UC Riverside, about 50 ft. from a classroom I was in. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/187 "2019-12-09T04:08:40Z")
I’ve been to several locations from movies shot in Memphis. In _The Firm_, there is a chase scene across the pedestrian bridge to Mud Island. The Orpheum Theater is featured in _Walk the Line_. There are scenes in the Peabody Hotel and the Butcher Shoppe steakhouse in _The Rainmaker_. And I used to work at Fed Ex where several scenes were filmed in the hub for _Castaway_. I’ve also flown in the jumpseat on a Fed Ex plane but, of course, they didn’t shoot in a real one. Still kind of cool to see that, though. I’ve also been to the Fort Worth Water Gardens where scenes were filmed for _Logan’s Run_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/188 "2019-12-09T05:39:19Z")
The gun range scene in _Super Troopers_ was shot in [Fishkill Correctional Facility](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishkill_Correctional_Facility), where I used to work. I’ve shot at that range many times (but always fully clothed). The scene (I’ve spoilered it because it features a mostly naked man): [SuperTroopers Range Scene - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO_zezpjnUQ) ---
**Author:** ![Hickory\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Hickory\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hickory_Joe)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/189 "2019-12-09T07:31:06Z")
In the movie Harold and Maude (1971) the church, St Thomas Aquinas in Palo Alto, is where the 2 main characters meet for the first time. I impressed a date by telling her i knew where it was then driving by with her on the back of my motorcycle (this was in the 80’s when I rode a motorcycle and could still get a date.) The Graduate: in Berkeley along Telegraph Ave - Moe’s Books (4 floors of wall to wall shelves of books), Caffe Mediterraneum (this place had excellent coffee at a fair price before SBs ruined everything), and Buttercup Cafe (I seem to recall the staff wore dainty uniforms) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/190 "2019-12-09T08:51:40Z")
Back in 1976, I spent some time in North Yorkshire and Cornwall. I’m transported back there whenever I watch the British nighttime soap \*\*\*Heartbreak \*\*\*and the \*\*\*Poldark \*\*\*reboot on TVO and PBS, respectively. I’ve read all twelve of the \*\*\*Poldark \*\*\*books, BTW, and the current iteration of the series bears no resemblance to them that I can see. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/191 "2019-12-09T09:03:04Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > **Heartbreak** Sorry, _ **Heartbeat** _. \*\*DUH! \*\*:smack: ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/192 "2019-12-09T14:10:36Z")
Clint Eastwood’s “Bronco Billy”, many of the locations shown, but mostly the fairgrounds and The Ranch Club. I remember they built a big old zipwall around the parking lot in back of the club to film some scenes there and there was a scene at the fairgrounds involving something burning, I remember the day they shot that scene as well. The scene from “Ghostdad” where the car goes off the bridge, that was filmed just outside of Boise, cross that bridge pretty often also. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/193 "2019-12-09T14:44:17Z")
I frequently go to Salem, Massachusetts (not far from where I live), where parts of **Hocus Pocus** were filmed. Not many of them, though. Salem is pretty cramped and tiny. The cemetaries are equally small. So most of the movie was shot on sets in California, with only a few establishing shots in Salem. I think the same holds true for the two episodes of the TV show _Bewitched_ that were shot here. Yet they (TVLand, actually) eventually put up a statue of her here. They might get around to doing the same for the Sanderson sisters. Disney seems to be actively reviving products and interest in them, and the stores in Salem are embracing references to them. ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/194 "2019-12-09T16:01:34Z")
The mall scenes in **Wonder Woman 1984** were filmed in the Landmark Mall in Alexandria, Virginia. In the short time that I’ve lived near the mall (15 years) it went from a thriving mall, filled with the latest and greatest stores including anchor stores of Sears and Macy’s to being a dead mall with one in ten stores open, and they were wig stores and mom and pop rug stores and the like. Surprising how fast malls went from being at the top of the heap to buried. I think they picked this mall because it was dead but still standing, as it awaits destruction. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/195 "2019-12-09T18:36:47Z")
I just saw _Knives Out_ over the weekend, and was pretty shocked to see them driving through downtown Maynard MA, where I used to work. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/196 "2019-12-09T18:50:49Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I just saw _Knives Out_ over the weekend, and was pretty shocked to see them driving through downtown Maynard MA, where I used to work. Yikes, I’ll have to keep an eye out for that. Were you a Deccie at the Mill? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/197 "2019-12-10T00:15:49Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Yikes, I’ll have to keep an eye out for that. Were you a Deccie at the Mill? I was at the Mill, but after it converted to a dot com office park in the early 2000s. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/198 "2019-12-10T00:38:57Z")
Well it was a TV show but a scene in the first episode of CSI:New York was filmed in the loft my wife and I shared in NYC ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/199 "2019-12-10T03:36:42Z")
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World… the scene for the “Big W”. At the time a private residence. I didn’t get inside the property, but walked down Palos Verdes Drive S, and also from behind on the beach and ravine - [https://goo.gl/maps/643gDAEp3mgqbfjr7](https://goo.gl/maps/643gDAEp3mgqbfjr7) Also, the restaurant used for “In & Out”… Tim’s Shipwreck Diner in Northport, NY [https://goo.gl/maps/RBDLr2KVDSXMuQ7o6](https://goo.gl/maps/RBDLr2KVDSXMuQ7o6) ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/200 "2019-12-10T06:22:39Z")
In _Point Break_, the climax, the whole point of the movie, happens on the iconic surf spot Bells Beach, near Melbourne. Been there (and surfed) many times. _(Wallaby sits down to watch movie)…_ Actually - it appears I haven’t been there. At least not to _ **that** _ Bells Beach.😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391.md?page=11)