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Post by ModernMe on May 14, 2013 16:21:34 GMT -5
Not sure where this post really belongs, (I don't think it's too far off topic?) Anyway, the next town over from us is playing The Long, Long Trailer tonight at a local outdoor movie night. I'm gonna drag the kids for some popcorn under the stars. I've never actually seen the film, so I'm happy to get to finally see it, and on the big screen to boot. whereisranchomirage.com/rancho-mirage-40th-anniversary-movie-night/ |
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Post by sparkle on May 14, 2013 16:25:55 GMT -5
Sounds like fun! Enjoy!
~Amy
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2013 16:42:56 GMT -5
Such a cute movie! I have it on DVD.
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Post by ModernMe on May 15, 2013 0:51:14 GMT -5
OK, I enjoyed it some, but mostly this movie made me cringe! It was fun to see that much of the steep road scenes were filmed on highway 74, which starts right here where I live. Always fun to enjoy local scenery.
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Post by Hamlet on May 15, 2013 8:34:00 GMT -5
Loved that movie, but for us Compact owners, there should be one called "The short, short trailer!" Thje one in the movie was 42 feet long. That's four Hamlets!
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Post by offspringin on May 15, 2013 12:10:37 GMT -5
"Trailer Brakes, Trailer Brakes, TRAILER BRAKES!!!!!!"
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Post by mobiltec on May 15, 2013 16:33:36 GMT -5
OK, I enjoyed it some, but mostly this movie made me cringe! It was fun to see that much of the steep road scenes were filmed on highway 74, which starts right here where I live. Always fun to enjoy local scenery. Don't know why it would make you cringe. Now you see why I think the more important question is not what your vehicle can tow, but what it can stop.... Not sure where "most" of it was filmed but at the end, that long switchback mountain road they go up carrying the illfated rocks that were supposed to be left behind is a road I have traveled hundreds of times as a hang glider pilot. That is Horse Shoe Meadows Road out of Lone Pine California. It starts at about 4500 feet MSL and goes up to almost 10,000 ft at the top where we would jump off the mountain in our hang gliders and then go UP in thermals and fly over Mt. Whitney on the way to 100+ mile flights in the Owens Valley. If you are ever in Lone Pine, be sure to take a trip up that road. It's very nice at the top in the summers and the PCT goes right by it. Plenty of parking and camping up there too now that it all got paved. This is a photo from the hang glider looking past the wing tip over Mt Whitney. Pretty much looking north along the crest of the Sierras.  |
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Post by schweetcruisers on May 15, 2013 18:05:04 GMT -5
This is from the premiere of the Long Long Trailer.  |
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Post by mobiltec on May 15, 2013 18:13:34 GMT -5
This is from the premiere of the Long Long Trailer. Oh wow! I didn't know about the fifth wheel in the back. Neat. In the movie they didn't show that as being there. Remember the trailer backing out over the cliff on the switchback mountain.... |
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Post by schweetcruisers on May 15, 2013 18:18:15 GMT -5
This is from the premiere of the Long Long Trailer. Oh wow! I didn't know about the fifth wheel in the back. Neat. In the movie they didn't show that as being there. Remember the trailer backing out over the cliff on the switchback mountain.... I thought that same thing,but if you look close there is a car park in between the trailer and the curb. But it does have wheels on the jack! |
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Post by mobiltec on May 15, 2013 19:51:27 GMT -5
Oh dang you're right Bill. LOL.. Would still have been a good idea. Ya I see the slimp dolly in front. They made a big deal about that in the movie too. My friends just sold one for $750 just like that one.
Good eye there Bill.
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Post by ModernMe on May 16, 2013 20:10:51 GMT -5
Oh, well maybe the mayor was wrong. But in introducing the film, the mayor of Rancho Mirage said the switchback scenes at the end were filmed on highway 74 between Palm Desert and Idyllwild. I know that Lone Pine takes a lot of pride in the great number of films that have been filmed up there. They have (had?) a movie museum in town dedicated to all things filmed near Lone Pine. I'll have to go look up the museum, as I can't recall the name.
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Post by mobiltec on May 18, 2013 20:01:14 GMT -5
The Mayor of Rahcho Mirage is wrong. As I said I know that road very very well. I know both those roads very, very well and both from hang gliding so I've driven them up and down and flown over them quite a bit. There are no pine trees on the one going down to Palm Desert... That's a clue right there LOL..
Ask him to show you where Jimmy Durante "kicked the bucket" in "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World".
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Post by The Pink Sheep on May 18, 2013 21:08:44 GMT -5
How fun. I remember seeing it when it when I was a kid. Would love to see it again though, because now I'm old and don't remember anything.
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Post by mobiltec on May 18, 2013 22:56:48 GMT -5
How fun. I remember seeing it when it when I was a kid. Would love to see it again though, because now I'm old and don't remember anything. Hey Pink Im right there with ya... |
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