Downtown New Richmond

This is an interesting site to me. In the movie it was all next door to the diner where Norman Dale met a few of the key players in the movie. Today it is a hub for a local plumbing and heating business. No matter what has been in this storefront though over the years the old Coca Cola sign remains. I really like this frame for that reason. You have the Coke sign among the rest of the construction going on everywhere else in the frame. The trailer out front just makes it a photo that I wanted to share. The old Hooks Drugs sign is gone, but the remnants of the logo also remain on the barbershop on the far left of the frame. I love those little things in a photo. This part of the building does not play a key role in the movie, but it does show up in the background a lot.

Looking Back On The Movie Hoosiers

Forty years ago this year stars were all over Indiana filming scenes for the movie Hooisers. I knew about the scenes filmed at Hinkle Fieldhouse and in Kinghtstown, but I didn’t know that the town of Hickory was just under a half an hour from my house. This week I am going to look at some of the filming locations around me. With us being right in the middle of March Madness and the state title games for boys high school basketball coming up this seemed like the perfect time to visit a few locations.