Does St. Catherines count as Toronto? The school scenes from A Christmas Story were shot at the Victoria School there.
It stood in for Vienna in Amadeus.
Hey whaddaya know? I went to Lawrence Park CI too! Class of '79 here. Give a cheer for the good old Gold and Blue, eh?
I think they were actually in Crawford Hill Lab, right near the main Holmdel Building. I don’t know if it still there, but there was a water tower shaped like a transistor.
Holmdel itself had a gigantic central atrium with the offices in corridors around it, six floors or so up. Always reminded me of a prison or the underground alien place in Forbidden Planet.
I was walking down a street in Prague one day in February, 1992. I turned a corner and found myself in front of Gestapo headquarters, complete with swastika banners and black Mercedes parked in front.
It was a real Twilight Zone experience! 
The Transistor Water Tower is still there.
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I know Bell Works, the former Bell Labs pretty well. Hell, I went there for career day all the way back in 8th grade as my first visit. As I mentioned. Many friends and my wife worked there in the Bell Labs days. Its rebirth as Bell Works is pretty interesting.
Or here’s an example from a Canadian film. When watching the 2000 Kevin Sullivan Miniseries “Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story”, which had the classic L.M. Montgomery heroine go to look for her now-husband Gilbert Blythe in World War I-torn Europe, I recognized a building from my school, the University of Toronto, in a scene that would have been set in Germany or France. I recognized it by the carving of a griffin that stood beside a staircase.
St. Catharines sure is near enough TO to be a likely filming location. As for “Amadeus”, great movie and great filming locations in Prague, though I wouldn’t recognize from sight any one of them (a lot of it filmed inside).
Hey, cool. I was born in 1979. Class of '98. …Let’s keep our colors strong and true… Our mascot - the panther. Did you know that Neil Young went to LP, as did newscaster Wendy Mesley? I remember seeing her picture in an old yearbook. Apparently she was a cheerleader there at one time. Young, I’m told, got in trouble for riding his motorcycle through the school hall.
I can only imagine how that felt if you didn’t expect to be met with a film set. I also ran into one of the street sets for filming “Anthropoid” (a film about a central event in Czechoslovak history during World War II), but by then I had long learned about the ins and outs of Prague.
The assassination of Heydrich? Have you visited the hairpin curve where the SOE agents attacked his automobile?
Indeed I have. In fact, in the past, when I was religious, I attended the church in whose crypt the British-trained paratroopers/partisans who participated in Operation Anthropoid hid and died (you can see this church in the Anthropoid movie).
I’ve been to that church too. As I recall, it’s on an embankment and was narrowly missed by Allied bombs near the end of the war.
I also made a day trip to Lidice in the spring of 1992. It was one place I definitely wanted to visit while I was in Czechoslovakia.
Yes, I knew about Young and Mesley; and did you know that Beverly Thomson (host on CTV’s Canada AM for a number of years, among other duties with the network) went to LP too? She was actually in my sister’s class. And yes, she was a cheerleader too. Well Thomson was, not my sister.
Now I’m going to have to watch “Dick,” just to see the old school.
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That one I didn’t know!
I checked out movies filmed where I lived. I found a movie with a scene filmed in my high school gym. It was filmed about three years after I graduated. It’s not a movie I have heard of before, but it has a couple of actors I know from TV shows.
I found the movie on youtube and saw the scene (about 10 minutes) and was able to see the gym as I remember it. I think the gym is gone now.
Parts of New Jersey are still lovely and unspoiled. It’s just that the ugly overdeveloped bits get the most media attention
My wife was ‘93, her brother and sister were ‘96 and ‘00. My kids are ‘23 and ‘26.
The Robert Mitchum remake of The Big Sleep starts with the credits rolling over a long driver’s POV shot of the A1 road past Stevenage, turning into Knebworth House, which doubles as General Sternwood’s residence.
Yeah, the one time I visited, my wife and I had been trying to fly into Newark. But a huge snowstorm knocked out every airport on the East Coast north of Washington. So we flew into Reagan National, rented a car, and drove through Delaware and New Jersey.
I read a book recently about Bell Labs (https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797) and some of the things that were invented there. I would love to visit the actual site, someday, even if there isn’t much there to see.
I was at THS when they were filming a lot of these and the one thing that stood out was even the background actors, the “average” people, were all freaking gorgeous. The actual stars were almost painful to look at they were so good looking. You watch a movie and you’re used to people being good looking but when you see them in real life, they’re almost ethereal.
It is The Garden State, after all.
An early scene in Revenge of the Nerds has the heroes being forced to sleep in a gym due to being thrown out of the freshman dorm by the jocks.
A little more than a decade after the movie came out I was playing pickup basketball every workday at noon in that same gym.