# Hey, I've been there! (Movie Locations)

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/201 "2019-12-10T14:48:22Z")

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In _Terminator 2_, the building used for Cyberdine Systems, that Our Heroes blew up, is visible from I880 in Fremont, CA. I used to drive by it twice a day. Never actually went to it, though.

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/202 "2019-12-12T01:26:07Z")

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As a bicycle courier in San Francisco long ago I delivered to locations used in many shoots including the NASH BRIDGES boat. Hint: QUICKSILVER was not reality-based.

The Stephen King flick DESPERATION was filmed in my old remote desert mining town of Bisbee AZ. One district was tarted-up to look worse. A major shoot occurred 500 feet from my front door, with a leopard leaping through a store window. The actors all looked bored with reshoots and waiting around.

King’s second film, 'SALEM’S LOT, was partially shot around the block from me when I lived in Mendocino CA. And much of THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING was filmed around where I lived just north of there in Ft Bragg CA.

Parts of Santa Fe NM were blocked-off for film shoots last time we were there but we never did learn what.

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**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:** [December 31, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ive-been-there-movie-locations/839391/203 "2019-12-31T22:54:31Z")

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Last week I visited a new one in addition to the ones I previously mentioned. I visited New York over the holidays, and flew into Terminal 5 at JFK. T5 is adjacent to the historic TWA terminal, where some scenes from _Catch Me If You Can_ were shot. In particular you might recognize the distinctive red tunnels that used to lead to the gates. The terminal was recently renovated and repuropsed as a hotel and now once again open to the public, so I popped over to check it out before heading to the city. It is totally a time capsule of groovy early 1960s modernist design.

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