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Aug 14
2008
04:10 PM ET
Favorite pop-culture field trips
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Earlier this summer, I finished grad school in Pasadena and before moving back east, I made the trek to Tujunga to fulfill a lifelong dream of seeing the house from “E.T.”
I went to Paris last December with my boyfriend and the two of us are huge fans of the movie Amelie so we did a mini Amelie tour of the city. We went to the cafe she worked in (now full of tourists, not a french person in site!), the square under the sacre coeur with the carousel and the train station with the photo machine. A few months ago, we were re-watching the film when we realised that the metro station across from our hotel that we used every day featured heavily in the film! how we didnt notice this at the time i dont know! needless to say, we were super excited about this new found fact!
I live on Long Island and one of the prettiest places ever is the Church in Cold Spring Harbor where the wedding from “In/Out” was filmed. My friends and I would go there to eat our lunch and then feed the swans our leftovers.
When I was in junior high, my parents and I visited Roslyn, Washington, where Northern Exposure was filmed. We have pictures of me (looking my 12-year-old dorkiest) in front of the doctor’s office, radio station and even in front of the Roslyn Cafe mural that’s featured in the opening credits.
I would be one of seven people in the world to get excited about my pop culture fieldtrip, but I love it! Last year, I visited Wilmington, NC home of Dawson’s Creek (Capeside) and One Tree Hill (Tree Hill). Nothing packed more punch then driving on the road where Dawson’s Dad, Mitch, was licking a ice cream cone when he smashed into the face of a truck. Vanilla and Blood don’t mix. I’ve been back twice and visited One Tree Hill’s Rivercourt. So many important scenes have taken place on that court. Shame the crews take down the actual hoops so I couldn’t play. I’m not much of an athlete, but I do love watching James Lafferty sweat.
Wilmington is also twenty minutes north of Southport, NC where I Know What You DId Last Summer was filmed. Relieve one of J. Hew’s best moments!
I already commented once, but I didn’t mention the big one! I went to Salzburg, Austria, and did the “Sound of Music” tour…. and then after the tour, I went on my own to find more locations seen or referenced in the film that were not included on the tour!
I stayed in the house that was the Senator’s house in Wedding Crashers, before it was converted into a posh inn. I used to have to drive by the Georgetown steps every day and they totally creeped me out!
On a visit to Seattle once I took a side trip to Roslyn, WA where Northern Exposure was filmed. Throughout several NYC trips I think I’ve been to every location from When Harry Met Sally, the Friends apartment building, and several locations that show up on SATC. I was in London right around the time that Notting Hill came out and unknowingly spent a day wandering around many of the locations from the movie. And, if I’m ever within 60 miles of Scranton, PA I will have to make an Office pilgrimage.
When I was in Middle school my grandparents flew my sister and I out to Arizona where they stay for the summer. We stayed for a week and then we drove back to Illinois. We went to the grand canyon yellowstone and a bunch of other places. The last stop we made before we got home was to the place where the filmed Field of Dreams. They even had the baseball players come out of the corn. To let you know how long ago it was the summer when all the oj stuff happened
I have another one also. I used to work for a reservation center for hilton hotels. We took a trip up to Chicago to visit a couple of the hotels. We were able to take a tour of the Chicago Hilton and got to go to the laundry room where the shot the Fugitive and also got to go to the suite that they shot the McAllisters opening Christmas presents in Home Alone 2…yes they say it’s New York but it was filmed there
The best place I’ve been is the island of Monuriki in Fiji where the movie “Castaway” was filmed. In the movie, the island looks totally isolated, but in reality it is surrounded by several islands, with hotels and villages on them.
My favorite memories from elementary school were our field trips to museums and the planetarium. i fell in love with the metropolitan museum of art during a field trip.