|
10-31-2007, 08:23 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: New York City
859 posts, read 916,448 times
Reputation: 169
|
|
We just watched Breaking Away after not seeing it for almost 30 yrs...
Has Bloomington changed much since the movie was made. I imagined it to be more manicured, but it looked a little rough around the edges in the movie. We are hoping to check Bloomington out in a few months.
|
|
10-31-2007, 08:44 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
30 posts, read 42,018 times
Reputation: 18
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by gimme it
Has Bloomington changed much since the movie was made. I imagined it to be more manicured, but it looked a little rough around the edges in the movie. We are hoping to check Bloomington out in a few months.
|
The movie was made a long time ago, so some things have changed a lot. Downtown still looks pretty much the same...some businesses replaced others. There are a few high rise (maybe 8 stories) apartments around, but pretty much the same. The campus is almost exactly the same with the addition of a few new buildings, and of course the Little 500 is held at a different location now. I don't know what you mean by a little rough though. There are still the student housing section of town with the older, pretty run down homes, but more and more newer apartments are moving in. |
|
10-31-2007, 01:14 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
131 posts, read 179,562 times
Reputation: 24
|
|
Not much has changed, IMO. The stadium where the bike race was held in the movie is now a field, and you cannot drive into campus in front of the admissions building, but other than that... And you also can't swim in the quarries anymore 
Most of the housing looks the same. |
|
10-31-2007, 03:47 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: New York City
859 posts, read 916,448 times
Reputation: 169
|
|
|
My concern is that everyone says how beautiful Bloomington is, and we didn't see it in the movie. Is it really a pretty, charming town?
|
|
11-01-2007, 08:17 AM
|
|
Discopants and Haircuts
Status:
"i wanna be sedated"
(set 12 days ago)
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Turn Left at Greenland
11,961 posts, read 7,805,501 times
Reputation: 2968
|
|
|
Campus is beautiful, the outlying countryside is beautiful, the parks are very pretty too. The rest of the town is nice, very typical small town Indiana. I don't know if it's any more rough around the edges than any other small town.
__________________
If there won't be dancing at the revolution, I'm not coming.
Emma Goldman
|
|
11-01-2007, 10:54 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
131 posts, read 179,562 times
Reputation: 24
|
|
|
It is beautiful. The movie doesn't do it justice in that regard.
|
|
11-01-2007, 11:39 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: New York City
859 posts, read 916,448 times
Reputation: 169
|
|
|
That's great to hear. We are looking forward to visiting. Any nice neighborhoods that we should check out. We are interested in neighborhoods zoned for Childs, Jackson and BHSS. It looks like Spicewood is nice. Anything else?
|
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
|
|
Welcome to City-Data.com forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with 700,000 other registered members. User profiles and some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your free account you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 15,000 posts/day about local topics and you will see fewer ads. 
Linear Mode
