+Frumious Jane Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 So I was channel surfing tonight and came across the Hallmark Channel. A flick I'd never seen or heard of, starring Steve Gutenberg, called, "Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus". The part I clicked to showed the hotel lobby where I stayed (which I recognized with a jolt), on my recent trip to Simi Valley, and then some playground equipment that is dark blue in the area of the Veterans' Plaza cache, GCG6QR, which I did while I was there. My short and cute traveling companion and I played on that equipment after we found the cache. Kinda cool, and it made me wonder, has anyone else been caching and then recognized that area later by seeing it in a non-caching context on TV (or a movie)? Quote Link to comment
+ePeterso2 Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 In one scene of the movie Hoot, there's a car chase across a bridge. That bridge is the New River Swing Bridge, and I recently posted a waymark for it. There's also a geocache at the south end of the bridge that was there before the movie came out. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 The location of this cache has appeared in several episodes of The Sopranos. Also, the end stage of this cache is also a few hundred feet from where a Sopranos scene was filmed. Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Because of its rugged beauty many movies and commercials are shot in the Eastern Sierra. Those familiar with the area will pick the landmarks out time and again. Many of the scenes for Star Trek: Insurrection were shot in an around Mammoth Lakes and the surrounding area. The scene where they are fleeing the flying robot beamers was shot on the ridge leading to THIS cache. Mt. Ritter, Mt. Banner, and The Minarets (pictured) can be seen clearly in the distance. The cloaked holoship was set at Convict Lake just a few miles away. Mono Lake was where they built the set for the town of Hell for the Clint Eastwood movie, High Plains Drifter. There are quite a few caches in that area. This cache is on an old movie set. Many folks will recognize this fissure from the movie, Troop Beverly Hills. There are many caches around Lake Mary, in Mammoth, (There's Something About Mary)where most of the movie, Cry of the White Wolf: White Wolves III, was shot. I always crack up when the stars are starving to death alone in the wilderness in a scene shot less than 300 feet from the Lake Mary Store and 20 feet from the road. Quote Link to comment
+Tone Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 My cache "El faro de Santa Pola - #2 is very closo to the location of a gallic village in the new "Asterix"-movie. " Quote Link to comment
Neos2 Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 (edited) There is a series of caches in Kentucky called "Hollywood in the Heartland" that features places that have appeared in films. There are 2 from the Bill Murray movie "Stripes", 1 from the Orlando Bloom movie "Elizabethtown", 1 from the James Bond movie "Goldfinger" and 1 from the Al Pacino/Russel Crowe movie "The Insider". Additionally, if you go to the page for "The Insider" called "Hollywood in the Heartland (Meeting)" and look at sample scene number 1 from the movie, you'll see a bridge in the background, behind Pacino and Crowe. That is the bridge from the movie "Stripes" where Bill Murray stops his taxi, gets out, and throws his keys off the bridge while supposedly taking his fare to the airport. (The airport is in the opposite direction from the way he was going.) This bridge has pedestrian walkways on both sides and there is a cache on the bridge. The location of the cache is visible in the screen cap. This is a Neos 1 post. I forgot which account was logged on. Edited December 24, 2006 by Neos2 Quote Link to comment
Tahosa and Sons Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 There are several caches near the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. Where the Shining was filmed. Quote Link to comment
+nrtrider Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 This cache is hidden where the movie "Dirty Dancing" was filmed. I was there before discovering geocaching. I think It may time for a return visit. Bald Knob Bug Pub Quote Link to comment
vagabond Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Here's one I did about 2 1/2 years ago Quote Link to comment
+Team GeoBlast Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 (edited) What a great thread! This cache Magnum PI is placed directly above Robins Nest the mansion in which Magnum and Higgins resided in the show. The view from the cache also shows where Island Hoppers, TJ's helicopter service was located. Come on out and find it folks it's 78 degrees today... Edited December 24, 2006 by Team GeoBlast Quote Link to comment
Guyute1210 Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 The Mothman Prophecies was filmed mostly in Kittanning, PA. You can see the bridge that is blown up in the movie from this cache Of course a drive through the town you will see many places that were filmed during the movie. Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 (edited) I did Kiss My Grits a few years ago. Then: Now: Edited December 24, 2006 by Snoogans Quote Link to comment
+Geofellas Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Not New Hampshire - when they filmed an episode of "The West Wing" in our town (which is not in New Hampshire - or even in the USA!!) Quote Link to comment
+ironman114 Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Well I haven't seen a movie made where I had cached, but I did place a cache where a movie was made in 1961. There is a train wreck (where I placed a cache in) still there in the bottom of a canyon. Ring of Fire Quote Link to comment
+Team Snorkasaurus Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 How about: Batman's BatCave (GC8413). Quote Link to comment
FlagFinder Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 i wish i had a cache in a movie i had one in a news paper in SD though it was under a bemch and they were redoing the patio and a senior was sitting on the bench from the senior center. small town news ay? Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 How about: Batman's BatCave (GC8413). Heyyyyy! I dropped that TB in Cali after GW4. Quote Link to comment
+Kealia Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 There's a number of caches around Bass Lake (in California, near Yosemite). This is where the movie "The Great Outdoors" with John Candy and Dan Akeroyd was filmed. I was going to Bass Lake long before caching, so it was nice to be able to grab a few on past visits. Quote Link to comment
+Team Teuton Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery was made famous in John Berendt's book (and subsequent movie) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. My Bonaventure Cache: Famous Neighbors Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Come on out and find it folks it's 78 degrees today... I'm hoping for another visit in late January. This one is on my list, as well as Sacred Moonrise. Keeping my fingers crossed! Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 There was a virtual at the location used for Kirks grave in StarTrek Generations. I didn't make it up there due to weather one time ad then I think it got archived. Quote Link to comment
+SUp3rFM & Cruella Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Guess this one was shown on movies for 40192093 times, or so. Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Here's a similar thread from a few months ago. Bret Quote Link to comment
+bigloaf Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 Simple Green II (GCR6P0) is at the Puente Hills Mall, GCR6P0 The Puente Hills Mall is probably better known to most people as the Twin Pines Mall from Back to the Future. The Mall then The Mall today (more or less) Quote Link to comment
+darkdoug Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 (edited) I recently ran across The Dead Man Walking Micro in Slidell, Louisiana. The location of the cache was used in several scenes from the Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon Pic and there are a couple pics on the Cache page taken as the movie was being filmed. Edited December 26, 2006 by darkdoug Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 (edited) Fried Green Geocache is just a couple blocks from my home. Featured in the book Fried Green Tomatoes at the WhistleStop Cafe by Fannie Flagg and then in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, I regularly eat at the Irondale Whistle Stop Cafe. A number of movies have been filmed at least in part around here - great idea for a series! This could be the basis for a huge viral caching series - movie sites around the world! Make the first word of the cache name the same for all of them... 'FilmSite - Fried Green Geocache' for example, and interested geocachers could sort a PQ of their search area for caches that begin with that word. Ed Edited December 26, 2006 by TheAlabamaRambler Quote Link to comment
ParentsofSAM Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 Fried Green Geocache is just a couple blocks from my home. Featured in the book Fried Green Tomatoes at the WhistleStop Cafe by Fannie Flagg and then in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, I regularly eat at the Irondale Whistle Stop Cafe. A number of movies have been filmed at least in part around here - great idea for a series! This could be the basis for a huge viral caching series - movie sites around the world! Make the first word of the cache name the same for all of them... 'FilmSite - Fried Green Geocache' for example, and interested geocachers could sort a PQ of their search area for caches that begin with that word. Ed We live by the Whistle Stop Cafe in Georgia where the movie was filmed. We have even eaten there a time or 2. But I did not have the fried green tomatoes...YUCK! But there is no caches nearby.....hum maybe it needs one! Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 Fried Green Geocache is just a couple blocks from my home. Featured in the book Fried Green Tomatoes at the WhistleStop Cafe by Fannie Flagg and then in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, I regularly eat at the Irondale Whistle Stop Cafe. A number of movies have been filmed at least in part around here - great idea for a series! This could be the basis for a huge viral caching series - movie sites around the world! Make the first word of the cache name the same for all of them... 'FilmSite - Fried Green Geocache' for example, and interested geocachers could sort a PQ of their search area for caches that begin with that word. Ed We live by the Whistle Stop Cafe in Georgia where the movie was filmed. We have even eaten there a time or 2. But I did not have the fried green tomatoes...YUCK! But there is no caches nearby.....hum maybe it needs one! Well see, there ya go! Interesting how geocaching teaches us interesting stuff! The Irondale Whistle Stop Cafe is the only one I knew of that was connected to the movie! I wonder if the one near you is related. I love how this game brings folks to small degrees of separation - I know Parents of Sam and have traded geocoins with them! I hope you will place a cache there, I would come hunt it for sure! Ed Quote Link to comment
surferacf1 Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...2f-2e3fc183548f Quote Link to comment
+oldnavy59 Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 in the new "We are Marshall" movie the scene at the cemetery where the coach says the funerals end today my Cache Across America Cache WV edition is about 100 feet from where they are standing Quote Link to comment
flyboyty Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 I saw the Meridian, idaho Water tower in the Clint eastwood movie Bronco Billy. Ty Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 This was a fun cache to do: Cache A Movie Redux Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 Never particularly happend for me, but any time they show those wide angle panoramas/fly overs, I can't help but think "I wonder how many caches are in that shot" Quote Link to comment
+Phillips4 Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 (edited) Fried Green Geocache is just a couple blocks from my home. Featured in the book Fried Green Tomatoes at the WhistleStop Cafe by Fannie Flagg and then in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, I regularly eat at the Irondale Whistle Stop Cafe. A number of movies have been filmed at least in part around here - great idea for a series! This could be the basis for a huge viral caching series - movie sites around the world! Make the first word of the cache name the same for all of them... 'FilmSite - Fried Green Geocache' for example, and interested geocachers could sort a PQ of their search area for caches that begin with that word. Ed We live by the Whistle Stop Cafe in Georgia where the movie was filmed. We have even eaten there a time or 2. But I did not have the fried green tomatoes...YUCK! But there is no caches nearby.....hum maybe it needs one! Well see, there ya go! Interesting how geocaching teaches us interesting stuff! The Irondale Whistle Stop Cafe is the only one I knew of that was connected to the movie! I wonder if the one near you is related. You guys may also be interested in this one in Senoia, Ga. First stage is the location for scenes from FGT and Pet Cemetary. BTW, POS - fried green tomatos are delicious! Edited December 27, 2006 by Phillips4 Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 BTW, POS - fried green tomatos are delicious! Interestingly I can't stand the ones from the WhistleStop! TheAlabamaRambler's Geo'Mater Recipe: Take several very green (no pink) tomatoes Slice them thick - 1/4" or better Pour a cup or two (depending on quantity of tomatoes to be cooked) of corn meal (plain white) into a gallon ziploc bag Pour in salt... a lot! Shake it around to mix. Taste the corn meal / salt mix... if the mix tastes good'n salty you're good to go! Put the tomatoes slices in the bag, seal it and shake till both sides of each slice are coated. Pan fry or deep fry in HOT vegetable oil - no less than 350° or they'll just soak up oil. (Yuck! Look for the oil's 'smoke point' and cook just below that! It should be on the label). Turn, if pan frying, when the bottom is golden - do not overcook - only takes a minute or less. If deep frying, remove when light brown or when tomato starts to float - do not overcook! Place on towel or folded napkins to drain. Best eaten hot but I like them cold too. I often take my propane turkey fryer to geocaching events and make these by the dozen - cachers love them! Ed Quote Link to comment
Mushtang Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 Fried Green Geocache is just a couple blocks from my home. Featured in the book Fried Green Tomatoes at the WhistleStop Cafe by Fannie Flagg and then in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, I regularly eat at the Irondale Whistle Stop Cafe. A number of movies have been filmed at least in part around here - great idea for a series! This could be the basis for a huge viral caching series - movie sites around the world! Make the first word of the cache name the same for all of them... 'FilmSite - Fried Green Geocache' for example, and interested geocachers could sort a PQ of their search area for caches that begin with that word. Ed We live by the Whistle Stop Cafe in Georgia where the movie was filmed. We have even eaten there a time or 2. But I did not have the fried green tomatoes...YUCK! But there is no caches nearby.....hum maybe it needs one! My wife and I did the cache in Alabama (that TAR linked to) a couple of years ago on a drive from Atlanta to Dallas. We were surprised at how little the cafe looked like the one in the film until we found out that it wasn't the one in the film, it was the "real" one that was the basis for a book. We'd like to come visit the film location cafe someday. Quote Link to comment
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