Did you have to slow down because you moving way too fast?
This car park in Gateshead, in the North East of England became famous after featuring in the movie Get Carter.
We were married less than a year later, so I guess not.
I probably would never have heard about Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh, Scotland, if Disney hadn’t made a movie about it:
Sadly, it’s actually Gower Street, but I forgive him because it’s a great song. You really need that Avenue for the rhythm. Oh, and it’s Alvarado.
A lot of memorable Chicago locations in The Untouchables:
There’s a bench in the Boston Public gardens that was used for a conversation between Robin Williams and Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting that is moderately famous. It became an impromptu shrine for Williams after his death.
Yeah, “Look away, down Gower Street” just will not do. Also, from what I understnd (never been there) you can’t actually see Gower from the HHH, so Zevon took some liberties. Still my favorite song, though.
And if California slides into the ocean,
Like the mystics and statistics say it will,
I predict this motel will be standing,
Until I pay my bill.
My favorite verse, too.
Windsor Ontario was made famous by that Journey song Don’t Stop Believin’.
I live near Golf n’ Stuff, the miniature golf course featured in Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend” video. The date scene in “The Karate Kid” was also shot there.
Unless you lived in Hawaii, you probably never would have known about the 'Iolani Palace before 1968. It’s where McGarrett’s office supposedly was in the original Hawaii Five-O.
.jpg)
The Five-O HQ moved to the Kekuanaoa Building at the start of Season 9 because the Palace was undergoing renovations.
A lot of other locations in the series would have been recognized by Hawiian locals too.
Speedy’s Sandwich Bar, at 222 Baker Street, aka Sherlock.
The Lloyd Rees fountain in Martin Place, Sydney, from The Matrix.
Żagań, Poland (formerly Sagan, Germany) is a tourist stop because of a little movie that came out in 1963:
It was also the subject of a book written by Paul Brickell, who was himself an inmate.
I’ve read that it was based on Dirty Dave’s Gay '90s bar/pizzeria in Redlands, CA, which the Charles brothers were regulars at while attending college in the area. The original location is now defunct, but its founder moved to Olympia in the early '70s and opened a new restaurant by the same name that’s still in business today.
Similarly, several locations in Derby, England are in the video to Your Woman by White Town, including a fountain that looks a lot like that one. Unfortunately according to Derby locals, including the song’s artist, whatever fame may or may not attach to the places, the modernist Assembly Rooms as seen in the video’s beginning are closed and will be torn down, and the city shut off the water to the fountain as a cost saving measure. Which would have the opposite effect on me, however, because if I were ever in the area, I would want to stop and see the buildings partly because of them being in the video, but not if the fountain is off.
Kubrick succeeded in disguising Battersea Power Station by the simple expedient of filming at Beckton Gas Works instead.
(If you are a member), you can play 18 holes of golf at the Grande Oaks Golf Club in Davie, Florida, where Caddyshack was filmed (back then it was called Rolling Hills).
Ten years ago, my wife and I visited three sites in Baltimore from “The Wire.” The outdoor space with the orange couch in front of those apartments really was a sketchy area; we took our picture and left quickly (and we’re not naively over-skittish about such things).
More obscurely, I posed with my toddler son in front of the same trees, in Primrose Hill
park, London, on the album cover for one of my favorite Rolling Stones albums, “Between the Buttons.”
The entire island moved north a couple of miles from tidal action on the notoriously soft bottom of the Hudson river.