I fixed the YouTube thing. The forums weren’t designed to deal with YouTube, and there’s some issue with it that I don’t know how to resolve. If you want to embed a video, just click the YouTube button in the post sandbox (the screen where you write your post) and enter the characters after the equal sign in the YouTube URL. I know it’s confusing, and I’ll see if we can get it fixed to a more user-friendly thing later along.
I fixed the YouTube thing. The forums weren’t designed to deal with YouTube, and there’s some issue with it that I don’t know how to resolve. If you want to embed a video, just click the YouTube button in the post sandbox (the screen where you write your post) and enter the characters after the equal sign in the YouTube URL. I know it’s confusing, and I’ll see if we can get it fixed to a more user-friendly thing later along.
Don’t you have 1958’s Robert Mitchum classic, “Thunder Road” too?
not yet… but I did see part of it being filmed when I was a little boy ... the car running into the electric distribution transformers on Rankin Avenue (behind where the Civic Center is now). I’ve also stood and looked out the window where Robert Mitchum jumped (used to be Hoyle’s office supply for many years).
The Atlantic gas station that was blown up was on Merrimon Ave, (about where the Enmark is now) but they built a mock up down on Amboy Rd, for the explosion scene.
There was a scene where a 1950 Ford went into a slide on gravel, but a 1949 Ford came out of the slide as the 50 did an unscripted flip.
My dad took me to see some of the filming also, and he had a friend that had a speaking part, the head of the ‘revenuers’.
If I had to see one Ghost Town movie this year, I’d go with the funny one about the whiny Brit getting harassed by the walking dead. Gervais is awesome.
If I had to see one Ghost Town movie this year, I’d go with the funny one about the whiny Brit getting harassed by the walking dead. Gervais is awesome.
No you wouldn’t ... if you know the REAL stories behind the local Ghost Town ... like Bill McKinney and Haywood County’s own Cowboy Coward. These two were together in a previous movie, “Deliverance,” and were voted the greatest movie villains of all time. Lot’s of other stories, too.
And now that Jason Buggs lives out in the Western Counties, the best advice I can give him appears on t-shirts sold in the tourist shops out there:
