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mellark bakery
from the hunger games posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
The Mellark Bakery where Peeta works in Katniss's flashback in The Hunger Games is the old company store from the abandoned Henry River Mill Village near Hildebran, North Carolina. The village was the company town for the Henry River Manufacturing Company from 1904 until 1977 when the cotton mill burned down. The boarding house and the 35 worker houses in the rest of the village were used as Katniss's district 12 slum from the beginning of the movie.
In April of 2012, the 83 year old property owner put the land up for sale for 1.4 million.
el segundo high school
from wargames, superbad, joe dirt posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
Besides being that place where Q-Tip left his wallet, El Segundo, California is also home to El Segundo High School which has been used as a filming location for dozens of tv shows and movies including WarGames (as Snohomish High School), Superbad (as Clark Secondary School), Joe Dirt, 90210, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and 24.
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from rock ‘n’ roll high school, the ramones posted in movies by nevereatshreddedwheat
In 1979's Roger Corman B-movie Rock 'n' Roll High School, exteriors of the Rockatorium, where Riff camps out for tickets and the Ramones arrive in their pink Cadillac, were shot at the Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles. The Ramones concert itself was filmed at the Roxy Theatre on Sunset Strip in Hollywood.
The Mayan opened in 1927 and first showed live musicals, then movies, then in the 1940s it was a burlesque house, back to movies in the 1950s, was a porn theatre in the 1970s and is now a nightclub. You can also see the Mayan, inside and out, in The Bodyguard starring Kevin Costner.
view full location details...vince lombardi high school
from rock ‘n’ roll high school, the ramones posted in movies by nevereatshreddedwheat
If you guessed that Vince Lombardi High School from the Roger Corman-produced Rock 'n' Roll High School was in Wisconsin, you would be wrong, since it doesn't exist. The movie was filmed at the Mount Carmel High School in Los Angeles, an all boys Catholic high school that had been closed for several years by the time the movie came out in 1979. This is the former site of the school. I don't know if there is any truth to the rumors that the explosion at the end was part of the building's demolition. I believe the building was actually demolished around '82 or '83.
Todd Rundgren, Cheap Trick and Tom Petty were supposedly all considered for the movie before the Ramones got the part.
view full location details...very large array
from contact posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
In the movie Contact, Jodie Foster receives the message from the aliens while at the Very Large Array in New Mexico.
Unlike the Arecibo Observatory which does collect data for the SETI@home project, the 27 antennas at the VLA are not actually used in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
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