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Old 09-16-2010, 11:00 PM
 
Location: New Hampshire.
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Thank You Roosevelt and thanks for the link , they have a really nice map of downtown on that site. It's amazing how much downtown has changed since I lived in Phoenix.
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Old 09-18-2010, 01:21 PM
 
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Talk about remote, Camelback Inn. Nothing around the place.Click image for larger version

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Old 09-18-2010, 03:26 PM
 
Location: Apache Junction
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Roosevelt, do you happen to have any pics of the Lakeside Amusement Park in Tempe. I remember some time back seeing a picture of hydroplane racing on the lake in 1949.

1949: First man-made lake is built in Tempe's section of Salt River. The "Lakeside Amusement Park," included a 10-acre, four-foot-deep lake that was to have fishing, carnival rides and boating. After a problem with seepage, the lake was thought to have dried up by 1950.

And we thought Tempe Town Lake was something new?
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Old 09-18-2010, 04:41 PM
 
Location: Maricopa County, AZ
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I believe the Kon Tiki Motel was the scene location for the first movie "Family Vacation" with Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo when Chase went Skinny dipping with that model Christie Brinkley(?) after they left the dead aunt at her sons house in Phoenix. The movie had quite a bit of it shot in Az.
Not meaning to upset anyone, but I don't think Vacation was filmed in Phoenix. From a film guide from the Arizona Film Office...



I could very well be mistaken as this guide isn't exactly carved in granite.
If the Kon Tiki was a filming site, I'd be surprised. I always believed the swimming scene was done in L-A.

http://www.azcommerce.com/doclib/film/filmography%205.1.pdf (broken link)

Speaking of movies filmed here, I'm still wondering about Auto Focus and a scene maybe at the Safari Resort...anyone?

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Old 09-18-2010, 07:27 PM
 
Location: New Hampshire.
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And here's another Camelback Inn shot.Click image for larger version

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Old 09-18-2010, 08:06 PM
 
Location: New Hampshire.
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Not meaning to upset anyone, but I don't think Vacation was filmed in Phoenix. From a film guide from the Arizona Film Office...



I could very well be mistaken as this guide isn't exactly carved in granite.
If the Kon Tiki was a filming site, I'd be surprised. I always believed the swimming scene was done in L-A.

http://www.azcommerce.com/doclib/film/filmography%205.1.pdf (broken link)

Speaking of movies filmed here, I'm still wondering about Auto Focus and a scene maybe at the Safari Resort...anyone?
Yeah , this site lists Zion National Park as a Arizona location for "In old Arizona" (1929). LOL , take it with a grain of salt , site listings are hardly comprehensive or even accurate.
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Old 09-18-2010, 10:40 PM
 
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Does anybody remember the hospital up in the north mountain area in the sixties? I was born there..
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Old 09-19-2010, 01:02 AM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix, AZ USA
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Does anybody remember the hospital up in the north mountain area in the sixties? I was born there..
Do you mean John C Lincoln? It's still there.
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Old 09-19-2010, 07:27 AM
 
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Do you mean the hospital at the very top of Central Ave? I took a tumble down the back side of North Mountain in the early sixties and had some cuts and bruises. I went into that hospital to be looked at. It was a private hospital and since has been torn down for a McMansion, I believe. I wonder who the patients would have been or what kind of hospital it was?
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Old 09-19-2010, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Glendale, AZ.
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Not meaning to upset anyone, but I don't think Vacation was filmed in Phoenix. From a film guide from the Arizona Film Office...



I could very well be mistaken as this guide isn't exactly carved in granite.
If the Kon Tiki was a filming site, I'd be surprised. I always believed the swimming scene was done in L-A.

http://www.azcommerce.com/doclib/film/filmography%205.1.pdf (broken link)

Speaking of movies filmed here, I'm still wondering about Auto Focus and a scene maybe at the Safari Resort...anyone?
No reason to be upset in this realm desertskies. We're just here to have fun! Anyways, the movie "National Lampoons Vacation" is listed on page 150 of the link you provided as released in 1983 but it's just listed as National Lampoon with locations at the Grand Canyon but there was a scene of them along I-17 around Sedona going south towards Phoenix and when they jumped the car up on the Navajo res. somewhere. I'm also not sure that was the Kon Tiki but I'd heard that and it looks like the hotel. No harm no foul.
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