# WEstren Movies: Towns in The desert? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 26, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westren-movies-towns-in-the-desert/417031 "2007-08-26T23:08:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westren-movies-towns-in-the-desert/417031/21 "2007-08-29T04:11:23Z")
Parts of “Sergeant’s Three” were filmed in the Paria Canyon, which is has a river (sort of), and is, indeed, in the middle of nowhere. The original buildings were taken down and then rebuilt. The structures themselves aren’t particularity impressive, but the scenery is just amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westren-movies-towns-in-the-desert/417031/22 "2007-08-29T04:39:32Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] That always gets me too. If one 750-ml bottle yeilds approx. 25 one-ounce shots, and you tried that at a $5.00/drink bar today, what would they say? “That’ll be $125.00.” [/QUOTE] They couldn’t legally sell you the entire bottle for on-premises consumption here in QLD, as that would be “encouraging the rapid or excessive consumption” of alcohol. If you want to go to a Bottle Shop (licensed for take-away liquor sales), you can buy as much as you want; there’s no law (that I’m aware of) against buying a ute full of booze and getting completely tanked in the privacy of your own home- not that it’s a good idea, of course. As for Ghost Towns- there aren’t that many in Australia/NZ, but the few I’m aware of tend to be from the Goldrush days, abandoned once the Gold ran out or got too expensive to extract. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westren-movies-towns-in-the-desert/417031/23 "2007-08-29T16:30:17Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Gallup New Mexico, Amarillo Texas, are two places that seem to only be there because that’s where your car runs out of gas. [/QUOTE] Amarillo, like many places in the Plains, exists where it does primarily because of the existence of a railroad. You can read about it at [Wikipedia: Amarillo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/amarillo). It should be noted, however, that there is an Amarillo Creek nearby, and that the fact that the proposed town site had access to water was a part of why it was selected for a town. ---
**Author:** ![RogueRacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westren-movies-towns-in-the-desert/417031/24 "2007-08-29T18:03:30Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] That always gets me too. If one 750-ml bottle yeilds approx. 25 one-ounce shots, and you tried that at a $5.00/drink bar today, what would they say? “That’ll be $125.00.” [/QUOTE] If I remember right, at Mist in TI (Las Vegas), a bottle of Crown Royal was about $260. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westren-movies-towns-in-the-desert/417031/25 "2007-08-29T18:26:19Z")
[QUOTE=RogueRacer] If I remember right, at Mist in TI (Las Vegas), a bottle of Crown Royal was about $260. [/QUOTE] I am hoping that comes with hookers and coke… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westren-movies-towns-in-the-desert/417031/26 "2007-08-29T18:44:03Z")
[QUOTE=FordPrefect] I am hoping that comes with hookers and coke… 🙂 [/QUOTE] Yes, all the coke you want, but do you really want to mix Crown Royal with cola? 😛😃 ---
**Author:** ![RogueRacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westren-movies-towns-in-the-desert/417031/27 "2007-08-29T19:19:39Z")
[QUOTE=FordPrefect] I am hoping that comes with hookers and coke… 🙂 [/QUOTE] Well… waitresses and Coke. Of course, you end up tipping the waitresses more than the Coke is worth, but after paying $260 for a bottle of Crown, what’s a few more dollars to a pretty girl? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westren-movies-towns-in-the-desert/417031/28 "2007-08-29T22:42:50Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] Well, off the top of my head, how about Silverado? [/QUOTE] Haven’t seen it in years. Even so, it’s in some sense a spoof Western. At least, it intentionally either emphasizes or subverts many genre tropes. So I’m not sure it would count. ---
**Author:** ![BigDummy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@BigDummy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDummy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westren-movies-towns-in-the-desert/417031/29 "2007-08-30T00:41:39Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] Well, off the top of my head, how about Silverado? [/QUOTE] There was some kind of flowing water pretty close, it’s where Glover found his dad’s body. Granted it didn’t appear to run right through town, but it was there. And even if they didn’t show much else in the way of water, there were many references to how good the land quality nearby was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westren-movies-towns-in-the-desert/417031.md?page=1)