Movie locations made famous by the movie in which they appeared

[Goathead]

Right off the top of my head I can think of the "Exorcist Stairs" in Georgetown and the baseball field in "Field of Dreams" somewhere in Iowa that have become tourist attractions. Know of any others?

[Justitia]

1. Savannah: Several spots re: "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil" -eom

[TheCentepedeShoes]

15. Enjoyed visiting Savannah

after reading "The Book" and checking out the locals.

[Justitia]

18. A friend and I loved it too - great town, lots of local color.

The book & movie just made an already fun town even more so....

[TheCentepedeShoes]

30. Oh ! Oh!

Forgot to mention. We saw Emma Kelly at Hannah's East. This was 1997 and I know she died a few years later. Took pictures of the Mercer house and some of the other special places in town. Stayed at a friend's place out on Tybee Is.

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. Evans City Cemetary- Evans City, PA

Made famous by "Night of the Living Dead"

[TlalocW]

3. Wrigley Field in Chicago

Thanks to the Blues Brothers. Man, nobody went there before the brief scene when the Illinois Nazis show up there thinking that it's Elwood Blues' address.

Its popularity began to sink again until Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

:)

TlalocW

[Tweed]

26. Ummmm....

So what has made it popular again? Ferris has been out of theatres for over a decade.

[TlalocW]

62. Blues Brothers 2

It rekindled interest in the first movie which then re-re-rekindled interest in Wrigley.

TlalocW

[Justitia]

4. Philly: Art museum steps in "Rocky" , yup, I ran up them too -eom

[msanthrope]

6. I live about 2 minutes away from the steps.....

It's always funny watching tourists try to run up and then do the Rocky dance--

[Justitia]

14. I did it when I was, ahem, "younger", "in better shape", etc

We have to worry when no more tourists are running up them, but instead ask "Who's Rocky"????? LOL

[Richardo]

5. Puerto Vallarta in "Night of the Iguana"

or so they say...

[Kali]

7. Catch 22 Beach

from ...well,...I forget which movie.

[terrya]

8. The Empire State Building in "King Kong" eom

[BrklynLiberal]

9. 86th Street in Bensonhurst..under the "EL"

"Saturday Night Fever" and "The French Connection"

[Left Is Write]

10. First Avenue Nightclub in Minneapolis.

From Purple Rain.

[Shananigans]

53. WERD!

I was just there last week!

[Texasgal]

Marfa, Texas

Where the movie "Giant" was filmed!

[cruadin]

11. How about the Devil's Tower from "Close Encounters...

of the Third Kind"?

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. Good call!

I'm sure that if anyone sees it, that's the first thing that comes to mind.
http://data2.itc.nps.gov/parkphotos/deto%5Fbig%2Ejpg

[liontamer]

23. doh

i spent so much time looking for the link, you beat me to posting. :)

[amazona]

12. well duh Phi Phi Isand from "The Beach"

...which was recently so hard hit by the tsunami. It looked like a beautiful place, so it is very sad.

Oh, and that prison in "Midnight Express" is apparently still there in Turkey, but I'm told it is now a tourist attraction, although supposedly the Turks are still peeved about that movie. That's what another lady told me when I said I was thinking of visiting Istanbul so I haven't yet verified this information for myself!

[ImpeachBush]

19. And the "Rock", of course

[ImpeachBush]

16. Bodega Bay (spelling may be wrong) from the Birds

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

17. KC Ribs in San Diego..made famous by Top Gun

[maveric]

56. Kansas City BarBQ.

It closed down a couple years ago.

[proud2BlibKansan]

68. Too bad

but then again not so bad. I live in KC and was excited to go there when I was in San Diego. But the bbq there sucked. Really bad. :puke:

But I have never forgotten the bumper sticker on the restroom wall:
"Due to the paper shortage, please wipe your ass with a spotted owl."
Seeing that made it worth the trip.

[Medium Baby Jesus]

20. The Alamo? n/t

[peekaloo]

49. Pee Wee made the basement famous!

[liontamer]

21. devil's tower in wyoming

close encounters of the third kind

http://www.gdargaud.net/Climbing/DevilsTower.html
http://wyoming.pacificnorthwestmovies.com/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind/

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Missed that one by 19 minutes

:evilgrin:

[liontamer]

36. excuses:

hey I'm still at work. I get distracted from DU on occasion.

Also that post isn't even numbered. What's up with that?

[sakabatou]

22. The bowling alley in the Big Labowski

[Goathead]

29. Where is that and what is the name of the bowling alley?

I'd like to go there if I ever go to L.A.

[sakabatou]

34. The bowling alley was replaced a while back

so you can't find it now.

[AZCat]

24. Nickerson, Kansas, in "Picnic"

Along with:

Halstead, Hutchinson, Salina, and Sterling (all in Kansas).

[OneTwentyoNine]

60. I think Paper Moon was shot in Hays,Ks

Ryan O'Neil and daughter Tantrum..

[Rabrrrrrr]

Amityville

[patcox2]

64. Amityville horror house is in Toms River, NJ. eom.

eom.

[Rabrrrrrr]

74. Really?

For some reason, I'd always thought Amityville was on Long Island. I have no idea why I would have thought that, I just did.

[Bok_Tukalo]

76. Does that include Amity Beach because of "Jaws"?

<eom>

[Tweed]

27. The Field in Field of Dreams

It has been in commercials. It is a tourist destination in the Midwest. They get people from all over the world that come to "The Field". Dyersville, IA would be nothing without it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. Movies and TV were the big impetus for people going to Hawaii

coming right at the same time that air travel began to be affordable.

[RagingInMiami]

31. I can't believe nobody has mentioned Fargo yet.

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. I don't think it's become a tourist attraction yet

[RagingInMiami]

35. But it did place it on the map

How many people even knew Fargo existed before the movie? Not me.

[Rabrrrrrr]

37. Good question. I don't know.

I always knew it was there, but I'm not really sure why. It's not the capital, so it isn't that.

Who knows? I don't. I've never been there. Haven't even ever been to ND. But for some reason, I've always known there's a Fargo...

[Left Is Write]

42. It's not the capital, but it IS the biggest city, so maybe that's why.

I've always known about Fargo, but then again, I was raised in Minnesota and went to college in Moorhead, MN (Fargo's "sister" city).

Only that opening scene took place in Fargo, but I don't think the movie would have been as popular if they'd named it "Brainerd."

[Jesus H. Christ]

46. I don't think the city of Fargo was actually in the movie Fargo.

There's Brainerd and St. Paul.

Don't think Fargo was in it.

[Left Is Write]

59. It was. The first scene when the plot is being hatched.

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. Niagara Falls

[Lex]

38. Durham Bulls baseball team in "Bull Durham"

.
and hey! that's where I live! :hi: from Durham, NC.

The ballfield and other locations where the movie was filmed are located very close by from where I am right now!

(I'm not a baseball fan, so I'm not all that involved in how well known the film is.)

[Scout]

39. Mackinac Island, Michigan

in "Somewhere in Time"

edit to add: The Grand Hotel, specifically; on Mackinac Island.

[yellowdogintexas]

40. Mystic Pizza, in Mystic Connecticutt

there really is a Mystic Pizza

[yardwork]

41. The whole country of New Zealand since LOTR

Even though it's supposed to be Middle Earth everybody knows it's New Zealand and we all want to go there now.

[babylonsister]

43. Sopranos-BADA BING (NJ)!

[miss_kitty]

44. Fort Worden, Port Townsend WA

An Officer and a Gentleman

[Jesus H. Christ]

45. And Fort Casey.

Whidbey Island.

[Squatch]

47. Salzburg, Austria and the Salzkammergut

One of my 3 favorite cities in the world.

[peekaloo]

48. Gilley's / Houston

mechanical bull rides in 'Urban Cowboy'.

[hfojvt]

50. Wabasha, Mn

home of the "Grumpy Old Men"

[Norbert]

51. The Empire State Building in the original King Kong

[sundog]

52. Martha's Vineyard - "Jaws"

it was already a vacation spot, just became more famous

[lpbk2713]

54. "The Bull & Finch" --- Where everybody knows your name.

The "Cheers" tavern in Boston.

Link: http://www.tvacres.com/restaurants_cheers.htm

Ed: just noticed this thread was about movie locations.

[elperromagico]

55. The Old Mill, North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Made famous by its appearance in the opening credits of Gone With The Wind.

[Kire]

57. New Jersey - the Sopranos

a guy was whacked a few miles from my High School

[CanuckAmok]

58. There's a "19th Century" gazebo in a park where I grew up...

Everybody thinks ist's as old as the rest of the colonoial town, but it was actually built in 1983, as a set for the Cronenberg film, "The Dead Zone".

The town fathers liked it so much, they had it made permanent, and actually invented a history for it.

[regularguy]

61. Downingtown Diner, Downingtown , PA: The BLOB!

[cestpaspossible]

63. Fleur-de-Lac, Lake Tahoe

the former Kaiser estate was the location for the Corleone family compound in Godfather II... now super-upscale condos, I did a little work there once as a chimney sweeper...

[noonwitch]

65. 8 Mile Road

I live just north of it, and about a mile and a half from the trailer park that they shot parts of the movie in.

I'm not a rap fan, I loathe Eminem's more sexist and violent raps, but I did like the movie.

[achtung_circus]

66. Who knew about Key Largo before

umm...

[ImpeachBush]

67. Flint, Michigan (Michael Moore)

[tsakshaug]

69. the church

from Alice's resturant where Alice lived

Well I think it is famous

[DelawareValleyDem]

70. Madison County, Iowa

[u4ic]

71. Casablanca

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

72. Notting Hill

Yeah, it's a chick flick. I watched it for diplomatic reasons.

[yolatengo]

73. Taylor Street, San Francisco

C'mon, you want to jump that hill in your '93 Geo Metro
just like Bullitt, doncha?

:evilgrin:

But there are millions of other movies that take place in SF
(Maltese Falcon, Vertigo, What's Up Doc?, Freebie and the
Bean...).

Bigby

[noshenanigans]

75. From "Last of the Mohicans"

Some of the waterfalls were from right behind my house in Western North Carolina (actually, I got to go onto the set when I was 12, and for my film-major self, that was awesome). We are a heavy tourist place for people from Florida, but a lot of people hit those falls because of the movie,